Re: Dutch "ij"

On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 07:12, Tim May wrote:
> 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?
There's an official word-list made by the makers of Scrabble, but I
don't know that it's complete. It looked rather thin. (There may be a
more complete version as well, of course.) If there is another
dictionary, I imagine the OED wouldn't be it because of the amount of
dialectal and archaic words it has.

Tristan.

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