Yes! Play to Win!

[Annie]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040806/ap_on_fe_st/scrabble_scramble

3-Letter Word Sparks Scrabble Scramble

Thu Aug 5,11:05 PM ET

NEW ORLEANS - It wasn't a four-letter word, but it was close enough to cause a stir at the National Scrabble Championship Thursday.

In the final round, eventual champion Trey Wright played the word "lez," which was on a list of offensive words not allowed during the tournament.

Normally, no word is off-limits, but because the games were being taped for broadcast on ESPN, certain terms had been deemed inappropriate, including the three-letter slang for lesbian...

...Williams spoke with Wright and his opponent, David Gibson, then called an emergency meeting of the Scrabble Advisory Board. The board unanimously agreed to remove the word. Wright then returned the two tiles he had selected and played a different word, Williams said.

"We kind of took two steps back," he said.

Wright, using more innocent words like feijoa (an evergreen shrub) and zebu (a domesticated ox), won the best-of-five final round in three games and pocketed a $25,000 prize.

"Meaning has no consideration when I play," Wright said.

 

[krisy]

Oh yeah,a domesticated ox,my brother has one of those in his backyard. His name is scruffy.......I didn't think you could use slang terms in scrabble.

 

[musicman]

Oh yeah,a domesticated ox,my brother has one of those in his backyard. His name is scruffy.......I didn't think you could use slang terms in scrabble.

Mickey Mouse. Bugs Bunny. Scruffy Zebu.

Or, my personal favorite - Robin Leech!

 

[dilloduck]

Oh yeah,a domesticated ox,my brother has one of those in his backyard. His name is scruffy.......I didn't think you could use slang terms in scrabble.

hell---those scrabble pros can make words out 49 consonants--you outta try to play online some time.

 

[Reilly]

By the way, the movie mentioned in the article, "Word Wars", is fantastic. I highly recommend it to anyone.

 

[Said1]

By the way, the movie mentioned in the article, "Word Wars", is fantastic. I highly recommend it to anyone.

I have seen the previews for it, it looks really good. I can't spell worth a crap (as if anyone hasn't noticed).

 

[popefumanchu]

"emergency meeting of the Scrabble Advisory Board."

Sounds exciting. Did a klaxon sound?

 

[Hobbit]

Oh yeah,a domesticated ox,my brother has one of those in his backyard. His name is scruffy.......I didn't think you could use slang terms in scrabble.

Widely accepted slang terms have made their way into the Scrabble dictionary.