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Official Tournament And Club Word List
NASPA Word List (NWL, formerly Official Tournament and Club Word List, referred to as OTCWL, OWL, TWL) is the official word authority for tournament Scrabble in the USA and Canada under the aegis of NASPA Games. It is based on the ''Official Scrabble Players Dictionary'' (OSPD) with modifications to make it more suitable for tournament play. Its British and international-English counterpart is ''Collins Scrabble Words''. Current edition North American tournament Scrabble currently uses the fifth edition of NWL (officially NWL2020, but variously called OWL5, OTCWL2020, TWL5, and TWL2020). The NASPA Games Dictionary Committee created this version in mid-2020 and it took effect on January 6, 2021; it is the second version published autonomously by NASPA rather than by Merriam-Webster under its copyright. NWL2020 contains every word in the sixth edition of the ''Official Scrabble Players Dictionary'' as well as words considered unsuitable for that book (offensive words and trademarks) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scrabble
''Scrabble'' is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard dictionary or lexicon. The name ''Scrabble'' is a trademark of Mattel in most of the world, except in the United States and Canada, where it is a trademark of Hasbro, under the brands of both of its subsidiaries, Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers. The game is sold in 121 countries and is available in more than 30 languages; approximately 150 million sets have been sold worldwide, and roughly one-third of American and half of British homes have a ''Scrabble'' set. There are approximately 4,000 ''Scrabble'' clubs around the world. Game details The game is played by two to four players on a square game board imprinted with a 15×15 grid of cells (individually known as " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NASPA Games
NASPA Games, formerly known as North American Scrabble Players Association (NASPA), is a nonprofit organization founded in 2009 to administer competitive Scrabble tournaments and clubs in North America. It officially took over these activities from the National Scrabble Association (NSA) on July 1, 2009. As of July 31, 2021, the organization is no longer associated with the North American owner of the SCRABBLE® trademarks, Hasbro, Inc. Mission statement and motto NASPA's mission statement is: :''We are a community of tournament, club and avid home players of the SCRABBLE® Brand Crossword Game. We foster an atmosphere for people of all skill levels to play their favorite game, improve their abilities and above all, meet people who share a similar love of the game.'' Its motto is: :''Making words, building friendships'' Activities NASPA has organized an annual North American championship since taking over from the NSA in 2009, most recently held in Reno, Nevada, in July 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
The ''Official Scrabble Players Dictionary'' or OSPD is a dictionary developed for use in the game Scrabble, by speakers of American and Canadian English. History Background and creation The ''Official Scrabble Players Dictionary'' was first published in 1978 through the efforts of the National Scrabble Association (NSA) Dictionary Committee and Merriam-Webster, primarily in response to a need for a word authority for NSA-sanctioned clubs and tournaments. Prior to its publication, Scrabble clubs and tournaments used '' Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary'' as an official word source, but as tournament play grew, this source proved unsatisfactory. The inclusion of foreign words such as "Ja" and "Oui", the exclusion of common words such as "coven" and "surreal", and a lack of clear guidance on the creation of comparative terms, were all problematic for Scrabble players.Fatsis, ''Word Freak'', p. 143. Games manufacturers Selchow and Righter, the owners of Scrabble at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collins Scrabble Words
Collins Scrabble Words (CSW, formerly SOWPODS) is the word list used in English-language tournament Scrabble in most countries except the US, Thailand and Canada. The term SOWPODS is an anagram of the two abbreviations '' OSPD'' (Official Scrabble Players Dictionary) and '' OSW'' (Official Scrabble Words), these being the original two official dictionaries used in various parts of the world at the time. Although the two source dictionaries have now changed their respective titles, the term SOWPODS is still used by tournament players to refer to the combination of the two sources. There has not been any actual hard-copy list produced called SOWPODS, although the current Collins Scrabble Words, or CSW, is in effect the full SOWPODS list by a different name. Currently the two main sources for the words making up the combined list (generally known as Collins) are: * The British words. Derived from two sources; the ''Collins English Dictionary'' and the ''Collins Corpus'', and * The Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster, Inc. is an American company that publishes reference books and is especially known for its dictionaries. It is the oldest dictionary publisher in the United States. In 1831, George and Charles Merriam founded the company as G & C Merriam Co. in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1843, after Noah Webster died, the company bought the rights to ''An American Dictionary of the English Language'' from Webster's estate. All Merriam-Webster dictionaries trace their lineage to this source. In 1964, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. acquired Merriam-Webster, Inc. as a subsidiary. The company adopted its current name in 1982. History Noah Webster In 1806, Webster published his first dictionary, ''A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language''. In 1807 Webster started two decades of intensive work to expand his publication into a fully comprehensive dictionary, ''An American Dictionary of the English Language''. To help him trace the etymology of words, Webster learned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowdlerize
Expurgation, also known as bowdlerization, is a form of censorship that involves purging anything deemed noxious or offensive from an artistic work or other type of writing or media. The term ''bowdlerization'' is a pejorative term for the practice, particularly the expurgation of lewd material from books. The term derives from Thomas Bowdler's 1818 edition of William Shakespeare's plays, which he reworked in ways that he felt were more suitable for women and children. He similarly edited Edward Gibbon's '' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire''. A ''fig-leaf edition'' is such a bowdlerized text, deriving from the practice of covering the genitals of nudes in classical and Renaissance statues and paintings with fig leaves. Examples Religious * In 1264, Pope Clement IV ordered the Jews of Aragon to submit their books to Dominican censors for expurgation. Sexual * " The Crabfish" (known also as "The Sea Crabb"), an English folk song dating back to the mid-1800s about a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Chew (Scrabble)
John Chew Hiang Chea (; born 4 October 1947) was the third Metropolitan Archbishop and Primate of the Province of Anglican Church in South East Asia as well as Bishop of Singapore. He retired as the 8th Bishop of Singapore on 4 October 2012. He was succeeded by Rennis Ponniah. Early life and education Chew was the fifth child out of six children in his family. His mother worked at the Singapore Anti-Tuberculosis Association and his father worked in the family business. Chew studied at Catholic High School and Anglican High School. He then majored in government and public administration at Nanyang University and received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1969, honours in 1970 and Masters in 1976. He obtained his Bachelor of Divinity (BD) with honours from the University of London in 1976. In 1982, Chew obtained his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Old Testament Studies from the University of Sheffield. Career After graduation from Nanyang University, Chew worked as an assistant dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of English Words
The following articles list English words that share certain features in common. Lists of words With unusual spelling * English words without vowels * List of English words containing ''Q'' not followed by ''U'' * List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature By formation * List of English apocopations * List of English back-formations * List of portmanteaus * List of retronyms * List of words ending in ology * -graphy * -ism By pronunciation * List of English words without rhymes * List of the longest English words with one syllable * List of names in English with counterintuitive pronunciations * List of onomatopoeias By provenance * English words first attested in Chaucer * List of calques * Lists of English words by country or language of origin By part of speech * List of collective nouns * List of English copulae * List of English irregular verbs * List of eponymous adjectives in English * Post-positive adjective Regionalisms * List of American words not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
