Message Forum: Re: Boggle, Scrabble, and more

Re: Boggle, Scrabble, and more

Posted By: Howard, on host 216.80.147.17
Date: Sunday, August 8, 2004, at 18:08:41
In Reply To: Re: Boggle, Scrabble, and more posted by neongrey on Sunday, August 8, 2004, at 12:10:58:

> > >I was looking up "spiven", which happened to be an imaginary word (I think it SHOULD be a word, though)
> > > Vida
> >
> > A good variant of Boggle and Scrabble is to permit words that aren't in the dictionary, but really ought to be good English words anyway. Surprisingly, you can usually get more agreement about what ought and ought not be a word than what is and is not a word (if you don't have a dictionary with you).
>
> Yeah, but then you end up with words like 'pornjaw' and 'boatnose' dotting your scrabble board.

My dictionary is getting old. It has "boggle" in it, but not "scrabble." Words like
"internet" aren't in there either.
Howard

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Message:	> > > >I was looking up "spiven", which happened to be an imaginary word (I think it SHOULD be a word, though) > > > > Vida > > > > > > A good variant of Boggle and Scrabble is to permit words that aren't in the dictionary, but really ought to be good English words anyway. Surprisingly, you can usually get more agreement about what ought and ought not be a word than what is and is not a word (if you don't have a dictionary with you). > > > > Yeah, but then you end up with words like 'pornjaw' and 'boatnose' dotting your scrabble board. > > My dictionary is getting old. It has "boggle" in it, but not "scrabble." Words like > "internet" aren't in there either. > Howard
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