Language may evolve but this is going too far

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MAGONSDAUGHTER

Monday, May 9, 2011 3:56 AM

SLANG terms, including "innit", "thang" and "grrl", have been added to the official list of words that can be used in the popular board game Scrabble.

Technology-related words such as "webzine", and "Facebook" are also among the 3000 new words added to the latest edition of the Collins Official Scrabble Words book, compiled by staff in Glasgow, the Scotsman said.

The Muslim term "fiqh" - meaning an expansion of Islamic sharia law - is also included.

The publishers said it was the "most comprehensive Scrabble wordlist ever produced," but some are likely to upset traditionalists.

The last edition of the word list for the crossword-style game, which is sold in 121 countries across the globe, was published in 2007.

For those unfamiliar with "innit", the Scotsman explained it is UK street slang for "isn't it" - but it can also be used to replace any negative tag question, as in "You like this song, innit?" One of its best-known users internationally is Ali G, comedy alter ego of funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen.

Use of "innit" will earn a Scrabble player a score of five points.

Hardly worth the bother, innit?

Read more at The Scotsman.

I am outraged!!!

RIONAEIRE

Monday, May 9, 2011 5:24 AM

I don't think Grrl should count for anything, I don't play scrabble but that word doesn't have any vowels in it.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

DREAMTROVE

Monday, May 9, 2011 1:58 PM

Bananagrams
That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

ANTHONYT

Monday, May 9, 2011 2:01 PM

Hello,

It was not so many years ago that I failed to find the word 'Realtor' in the official scrabble dictionary. I'm surprised at this slang.

--Anthony

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STORYMARK

Monday, May 9, 2011 5:45 PM

Hmm. Way better things to get outraged over.

And hey, that's what house rules are for.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

SIGNYM

Monday, May 9, 2011 6:04 PM

Many years ago, I used the word "quim". When asked to explain what it meant I hemmed and hawed and said it was an old-fashioned word for a current vulgar word beginning with the letter "C". In our lunchtime Scrabble bunch, we had challenge rules, but nobody dared challenge me bc I looked too darn confident! Good thing, too, because the word was not in any of the dictionaries at-hand. Not on the internet either.

I was finally validated by an episode of Firefly, when Captain Mal used the word- which, btw can now be found on the inet. (But prolly not in the new Scrabble dictionary)

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Monday, May 9, 2011 9:08 PM

Quim is a lovely word. I wish it would come back into common usuage.

Story, I'm not really outraged. Should have put some emoticons after that word. But in this complex, difficult often cruel world, sometimes I'd prefer to think about scrabble.

RIONAEIRE

Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:56 AM

When does Mal say quim? I'm curious because I don't remember this.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

KWICKO

Tuesday, May 10, 2011 2:17 AM

It's just a fookin' game, innit?

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Tuesday, May 10, 2011 5:27 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
It's just a fookin' game, innit?

LOL>

Actually, it's taken very seriously in part of my family. Clearly not by me, because I have trouble spelling as you may have noticed, but I have observed the deadly serious nature of a seemingly innocent game of scrabble.

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