Re: CONLANG Digest - 18 Mar 2000 to 19 Mar 2000 (#2000-78)

Muke Tever wrote:

> >From:    Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
> >Subject: CHAT: Scrabble and other word games
> >
> >Question: In languages that use diacritics, are they usually included in
> >games like Scrabble?
>
> One of my grandmothers had a Scrabble game with Spanish tiles; there was a
> 'qu' tile, 'ñ', and maybe a 'ch' and 'll' (don't remember).  There were no
> vowels with accent marks though.
Yeah.  In highschool my German class didn't have enough proper
German scrabble boards, so we often used an old Spanish board,
which had all those tiles you mention.  The German boards did, though,
have umlauted tiles for vowels, although I don't seem to remember any
tile for the ess-zett.

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