CHAT: Scrabble (was Dutch "ij")

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