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Thanks Chemgal. I think that X would stump the best of us. Use another letter from the word if you wish to continue.
 
Seeler said:
Thanks Chemgal. I think that X would stump the best of us. Use another letter from the word if you wish to continue.
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It was more than just stump, I searched. There are few 4 letter words starting with x, let alone by switching only one of o, u, or r.
Congrats :)
 
According to the rules - can one win with a word from a language other than English?
 
Xorn

(Mongolian noun & adjective: mockery, jesting, foolery, joke, satire, humour, satirical, humourous. Also a monster from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. Also the name of a character from Marvel comics)
 
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How do you define English?
Does it have to be derived from Anglo-Saxon? Or are words like' canoe', 'toboggan', and 'pizza' English?

When I read a sentence that says 'make a roux of melted butter, and flour. and whisk it into the hot broth' I understand that I'm reading English. Actually I don't speak or read any other language.

I searched for the definition in several English and American dictionaries and they all listed roux as a blend of fats and flour added to a liquid as a thickening agent. If it's in the dictionary, and not noted as a foreign word (although it is a French derivitive) it is English.
 
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Seeler said:
How do you define English?
Does it have to be derived from Anglo-Saxon? Or are words like' canoe', 'toboggan', and 'pizza' English?

When I read a sentence that says 'make a roux of flour and water and whisk it into the hot broth' I understand that I'm reading English. Actually I don't speak or read any other language.
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Canoe - toboggan - and pizza are English words - roux is not. Yes - roux is a cooking term commonly used in English recipes - but it is not in and of itself English. And so - the game continues.
 
Pr. Jae said:
Canoe - toboggan - and pizza are English words - roux is not. Yes - roux is a cooking term commonly used in English recipes - but it is not in and of itself English. And so - the game continues.
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How do you define what is english?
It's in the Oxford dictionary, good enough for me :)
 
Does anyone have the official scrabble dictionary? For word games, that's what I would go with, but it's my parents', not mine. I did search online, and it appears to be in an online scrabble dictionary, but I don't think it has the official list.
 
roux is in my Scrabble official dictionary of 1998. It is also in the online scrabble dictionary. So it's been an accepted English word for at least 16 years, and probably for centuries.

Just because a person isn't familiar with a word doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. My son, who is well educated and has a wide vocabulary, and who insists that we take a penalty in Scrabble if we use a non-existent word, or if we challenge a real word, once challenged me on 'twill'. He was surprised to find that it is a type of cloth - something I had learned in Home Ec classes when I was 12.

Every activity, hobby, sport, has its own vocabulary. No one knows them all. And new words are being added to our language daily. Think of all the words that computer technology has added to our language in recent years.

Thank goodness English is a language which develops words, or adopts them from other languages, and is enriched in the process. I understand that some languages (French) have an official process for accepting new words.
 
Scrabble is just a board game. Why should it be used to decide things? Why not UpWords - Boggle - or some such other game? Scrabble should not be held as an authoritative source any more than - say - Jenga or Tiddlywinks.

Really - in starting an online game like this one - whoever makes the OP should state right from the beginning what dictionary will be the ultimate authority. Because this was not done - we find ourselves in the problematic state that we are now in.
 
I agree with you Jae as far as Scrabble goes. I also think that if a word can be found in several dictionaries (including Cambridge, Collins, Merriam-Webster, Oxford) and online dictionaries like Dictionary.com and The Free Dictionary.com - and has been used in the Sunday Times and Toronto Sun and other publications it is a word.

As for a game on WC2 - I don't think that we need to delve into the rules. We just reach a consenses. So far nobody but you has a problem with this.
 
It is very funny to me that for 7 years we have played games. Lots of laughs- no dictionary. Along comes jae and it kinda reminds me of threads on 5 oaks picnic.
Lighten up Jae. I call the came and the winnnnnnnnah is seeler.
 
Pr. Jae said:
Scrabble is just a board game. Why should it be used to decide things? Why not UpWords - Boggle - or some such other game? Scrabble should not be held as an authoritative source any more than - say - Jenga or Tiddlywinks.
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I'm not familiar with an official dictionary for any of those.
 
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