Re: Dutch "ij"

Nik Taylor writes:
 > Tim May wrote:
 > > Qabalah, qanat, qawwali, qi, qibla, qigong and qintar are in the New
 > > Oxford.  Everything else I can see is a proper noun or an abbreviation
 > > (is Qabalah proper?  It's capitalized). Oh, and qwerty is at the back
 > > of q.  I'd count that as an abbreviation, although I guess it's a grey
 > > area.
 >
 > Okay, there are a *few* examples.  But, I think those would count as
 > foreign words, which are illegal in Scrabble.  Of course, "foreign word"
 > is a rather grey area, as numerous debates with my mother during
 > Scrabble games attest.  :-)
 >

They're certainly foreign words, but they are in the dictionary, and
thus now words in English.  Is there as specific dictionary the
authority of which is recognized by serious Scrabble players?

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