Scrabble

• Guest 690

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  28 December 2010     16:1586667
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  I first played this game back in the 70s as a board game and only very recently on the internet. One of the skills of the game is to get rid of difficult letter`s such as Q, Z, V etc, which are a little more difficult to find words for. All good fun. Now to this internet version. Each day on logging into the game, there`s a `Word of the Day`. Todays word happens to be WAQF. What`s wrong with this? Well, nothing really,except for the fact that it gives an easy way to use the letter `Q` without needing a `U`. Just one other thing though, this word isn`t in fact english, it`s a Muslim word meaning an endowment. So, is this a sign of things to come, and why stop at this word? No disrespect to Muslim words, but shouldn`t Scrabble remain one language or the other?
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  28 December 2010     16:5786668
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  i think you will find it may be arabic colin, islam is only a religion not a language.
• Guest 700

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  28 December 2010     17:2086670
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  I thought we could only use English language words in Scrabble, here !!
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• Bern

  • Location: Dover
  28 December 2010     17:3486672
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  I saw that Colin, and had similar thoughts. I play scrabble in English and would prefer to continue!!
• Alec Sheldon

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  28 December 2010     17:5286675
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  WAQF is in my Chambers Official Scrabble Words book but I cannot find the meaning in any of my dictionaries.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  28 December 2010     18:1086680
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  i thought it was only english word too, i wonder about american spellings.
  
  i didn't realise that there was an "official scrabble words book".
• Alec Sheldon

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  28 December 2010     19:0186690
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  Bought it years ago in a sale at Smiths Howard. Never been opened until today.
• Guest 690

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  28 December 2010     19:1786694
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  Howard, it`s a Muslim word, or at least that`s what the owner of the Scrabble set up on here tells us.
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• Trevor Bond

  • Location: Dover
  28 December 2010     20:0986697
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  I have my wife curremtly studying a scrabble dictionary in an effort to beat me
  
  I agree that the words that can be used now spoil the games. What happened to the good old days when only the Oxford dictionary was used? Then the game was a challenge
  
  A lot of the words in the scrabble dictionary will never make the Oxford dictionary
  
  This is just another case of Dumbing now the system so that the less skilled can compete on an equal footing
• Jan Higgins

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  28 December 2010     20:3886701
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  More likely for those with a good memory for never heard of strange words, so I may never win again.
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  28 December 2010     21:0886706
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  colin
  
  without wishing to be pedantic it is impossible for a religion to have a language.
  
  "waqf" is used mainly by muslims,"back packs loaded with explosives" is sometimes used by adherents to that faith but is an english phrase.
  
  
  trevor
  
  i have that dictionary in the house also that i refer to, most people have a dictionary in their home, wouldn't it be easier for scrabble contestants to just agree on words by using the book "in situ"?
  not sure how this would work in internet games though.
• Guest 690

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  28 December 2010     21:2886707
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  Howard, you`ll have to tell that to the internet Scrabble company, I`m merely repeating their words. Fancy a game?
  Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
• howard mcsweeney1

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  28 December 2010     23:1586712
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  sounds like another internet geek is spreading rubbish colin, no doubt one of our stateside friends with an agenda.
  
  i think i will stick to the english board game.