Comments on: How Dictionaries Ruined My Scrabble Game http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/scrabble_dictionary/ Introducing brilliant authors to the blogosphere. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: scrabble two letter words http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/scrabble_dictionary/comment-page-1/#comment-145477 scrabble two letter words Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:36:49 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1693#comment-145477 [...] through, but I pored obsessively over it, and collected lists of words that fellow aficionados ...http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/scrabble_dictionary/Franklin Official Electronic Scrabble Players Dictionary I think we all know people who are way too [...] [...] through, but I pored obsessively over it, and collected lists of words that fellow aficionados …http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/scrabble_dictionary/Franklin Official Electronic Scrabble Players Dictionary I think we all know people who are way too [...]

]]> By: mollymooly http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/scrabble_dictionary/comment-page-1/#comment-145264 mollymooly Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:36:29 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1693#comment-145264 To answer your rhetorical question "Why, for instance, does the Scrabble Players Dictionary list both howf and howff (Scottish words defined as ‘a place frequently visited’), but neglects to include many of the variants that Joseph Wright has in his English Dialect Dictionary", Wikipedia's "Official Scrabble Players Dictionary" article says "Selchow and Righter, the owners of Scrabble at the time [1978], proposed that words contained in at least one of the following five dictionaries should be in the OSPD: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eighth Edition (1973), Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary of the English Language (1973), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (1969), Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition (1970), and The Random House College Dictionary (1968)." To answer your rhetorical question “Why, for instance, does the Scrabble Players Dictionary list both howf and howff (Scottish words defined as ‘a place frequently visited’), but neglects to include many of the variants that Joseph Wright has in his English Dialect Dictionary”, Wikipedia’s “Official Scrabble Players Dictionary” article says “Selchow and Righter, the owners of Scrabble at the time [1978], proposed that words contained in at least one of the following five dictionaries should be in the OSPD: Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eighth Edition (1973), Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary of the English Language (1973), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (1969), Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition (1970), and The Random House College Dictionary (1968).”

]]> By: Peter Roizen http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/scrabble_dictionary/comment-page-1/#comment-145252 Peter Roizen Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:12:14 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=1693#comment-145252 Something you might want to look at: http://www.wildwords.us A Scrabble type game that makes long words more important than the short ones in the OSPD. Something you might want to look at:

http://www.wildwords.us

A Scrabble type game that makes long words more important than the short ones in the OSPD.

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