Could spell trouble? Scrabble rule change allows use of 'OK'

by Alison Flood

 

Game-changer … Scrabble tiles. Photograph: Alamy

 

Hold on to your tiles: the first new Scrabble words in four years are being added to the official list of accepted words, including – heretically for some purists – the two-letter word “OK”.

 

The new edition of Collins Official Scrabble Words adds 2,862 words to the existing 276,000, allowing players who have pored over the new list to rack up an impressive 20 points if they manage to put down “yowza”, 22 if they can fit “genderqueer” anywhere, or 12 for “fleek”.

 

OK is one of three new two-letter words, the first added to the official list since 2007.

 

The others are “ew” – an “expression of disgust” joining eew and eeew in the dictionary – and “ze”, defined as a gender-neutral pronoun. 

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/02/scrabble-change-of-mindset-allows-use-of-ok

My girlfriend of a long time ago was mad on the game, wanted to play it all the time and she was good; I was not. I sat her down one day and explained that as a young couple, we should be playing other 'stuff', stuff that, modestly, I was fairly good at and she not bad, as a supporting act to my obvious talent.  She still preferred scrabble, which I took as a slight on my bedroom prowess.  That relationship didn't last. I vowed at that point that my future wife would have to be, at the very least, third language English.  Result, harmony in the PM house and not a scrabble brick in sight.

 

P.S, I'm still talented, or so Mrs P tells me.    

... and “ze”, defined as a gender-neutral pronoun. 

 

"One refers to a person with ze and hir or zir typically (a) when their gender is unknown, and one wishes to avoid assuming their gender, or (b) when they are neither male nor female in gender, making he and she (and also either/or terms like s/he or (s)he) inappropriate and potentially hurtful. ze - Wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ze"

 

Flippin' heck!! Total bunch of snowflakes...