Re: CHAT: Scrabble (was Dutch "ij")

There is an official Scrabble dictionary.
It's very permissive and includes many words I wouldn't consider to be real
English words, including a number of "Q" words without a "U".

In a message dated 7/17/2002 6:03:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
james.hogard@JUNO.COM writes:


> Tim May:
> > 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?
>
> From the official rules:
>
> "All words labeled as part of speech {including those listed of foreign
> origin,
> archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc.} are permitted with the
> exception
> of the following {words always capitalized, abbreviations, prefixes and
> suffixes standing alone, words requiring a hypen or apostrophe}."
>
> Merriam-Webster publishes an Official Tournament & Club Word List
> used by the National Scrabble Association.  M-W's Collegiate Dictionary,
> 10th Edition is the preferred reference otherwise.
>
> -T1o1n1e1
>