If your bezzy is a tweep, playing Scrabble against them might get you schvitzing now that the Collins Scrabble Word List has been expanded to include lotsa new words many of which are so ridic they'll make you lolz!
Shock horror - your favourite board game has recently been updated with an additional 6,500 words, including some formerly limited to social media and technology.
The Collins Scrabble Word List is used by international tournament players. It includes more than 276,000 words from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Britain and the United States.
Its new list was "influenced by all parts of life including social media, slang, technology and food, plus English from around the world," Collins Dictionary said in a statement.
The World English-Language Scrabble Players Association is going to officially adopt the new wordlist this month after professional players get some time to study and get comfortable with words like "ridic" and "lolz," according to Collins.
And just in case you have any plans on fighting for the £5000 prize at the 2015 World Scrabble Championship in Australia this November, here's a list of some of the most surprising new words you can use to your advantage:
AUGH - interjection expressing frustration (11 points)BEZZY - best friend (18 points)
BLECH - interjection expressing disgust (12 points)
CAKEHOLE - mouth (17 points)
CAZH - casual (18 points)
CHECKBOX - small clickable box on a computer screen (28 points)
COQUI - type of tree-dwelling frog (16 points)
DENCH - excellent (11 points)
DEVO - short for devolution (18 points)
EEW - exclamation of disgust (6 points)
EMOJI - digital icon used in electronic communication (14 points)
FACETIME - talk with (someone) via the FaceTime application (15 points)
GEOCACHE - search for hidden containers using GPS as a recreational activity (16 points)
GRR - interjection expressing anger or annoyance (4 points)
HACTIVIST - person who hacks computer systems for political reasons (22 points)
HASHTAG - a word or phrase preceded by a hashmark on Twitter, used to denote the topic of a post (14 points)
IXNAY - no (15 points)
LOLZ - laughs at someone else’s or one’s own expense (13 points)
LOTSA - lots of (5 points)
NEWB- newbie (9 points)
OBVS - obviously (9 points)
ONESIE - one-piece garment combining a top with trousers (6 points)
PACKZI - round, filled doughnut (23 points)
PODIUMED - to finish in the top three places in a sporting competition (14 points)
QUINZHEE - shelter made from hollowed-out snow (29 points)
RIDIC - ridiculous (8 points)
SCHVITZ - to sweat (24 points)
SEXTING - practice of sending sexually explicit text messages (15 points)
SHIZZLE - a form of US rap slang (18 points)
SHOOTIE - type of shoe that covers the ankle (10 points)
THANX - thank you (15 points)
TUNAGE - music (8 points)
TWEEP - person who uses Twitter (10 points)
VAPE - to inhale nicotine vapor (from an electronic cigarette) (9 points)
WAHH - interjection used to express wailing (10 points)
YEESH - interjection used to express frustration (11 points)
WARBOT - any robot or unmanned vehicle or device designed for and used in warfare (11 points)
WUZ - was (15 points)
and finally, taking the biscuit:
PWN - to conquer or to gain ownership (8 points)
Apparently resulting from a common mistyping of "Own" as a result of the proximity of the letter P to the letter O on a keyboard.
GOOD GRIEF - What is happening to our English language!
Follow this link to check to see how well you know the new words:
The times are certainly changing!
Hey Ho!
