Grab your guac and straighten that fauxhawk: The folx at Merriam-Webster have updated 'The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary' with about 500 new words.
Compound words are on the rise in the book with deadname, pageview, fintech, allyship, babymoon and subtweet. So are the “uns,” such as unfollow, unsub and unmute. They may sound familiar, but they were never Scrabble official, at least when it comes to the sainted game’s branded dictionary.Sokolowski and a team of editors at Merriam-Webster have minedto expand the Scrabble book.
“Yeehaw is like so many of the older, informal terms. They were more spoken than written, and the gold standard for dictionary editing was always written evidence. So a term like yeehaw, which we all know from our childhood and in movies and TV, was something you heard. You didn’t read it that often,” Sokolowski said.
Iftar is a meal taken by Muslims at sundown to break the daily fast during Ramadan. Mofongo is a traditional Puerto Rican dish made of fried or boiled plantains. Horchata is a sweet drink and kabocha is a winter squash. Yes, jedi need not be capitalized. Wondering what grawlix means? It’s this: $%!#, a series of typographical symbols used to replace words one doesn’t want to write, usually those that got you into trouble as a kid.
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