Scrabble Words

[kenny1234]

Why is LUDO allowed-- but not SODUKO?--

[Mamyalynne]

Are you sure?

Sudoku

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[Baldric]

Ha Ha ;o)

[kenny1234]

Just checked on the official website for scrabble (no word found for soduko)---but ludo was OK
Also--bokeh was not allowed !!! (out of focus portion of a photo)
wonder if the website is not up to date?

[Mamyalynne]

Check your spelling

SUDOKU

[kenny1234]

My mistake,---but what about Bokeh?

[Mamyalynne]

No idea what criteria they use to decide which words are allowed, sorry.

[ichkeria]

The official British scrabble word list is based on Collins English Dictionary which does not include the word BOKEH. The American list is based on Merriam-Webster, which does.

[vetuste_ennemi]

I'd imagine there's an interval (probably getting shorter) between the arrival of a popular brand and its name entering the lexicon (e.g Biro, Hoover). Shorter still with social media neologisms like Twitter-"tweet" and Google->"google".

[kenny1234]

Many thanks Ichkeria--that could explain why a few other words don't appear in all dictionaries----Cheers

[Mamyalynne]

Good to know the source they use, thanks Ich.

[Atheist]

VE, i love the old-fashioned googol - ie 1 followed by a hundred noughts. Googolplex was 1 followed by a googol noughts. (I've probably got this wrong, but I'm sure some kind clever person will be able to politely correct me.)

[Peter Pedant]

// Shorter still with social media neologisms like Twitter-"tweet" and Google->"google".//

tweet is old innit ? like eighteenth century or something
The immortal Michael (owww!) Jackson sang a memorable chorus in "Rackin Rarbin" - 'tweet! twiddly tweet!"

and google as eny fule kno is from googleplex - google is a number ( a very large one as it turns out ) and a googleplex is a google to the power of a google. Social historians and French mediaeval linguists need to lie down when they read things like that.

[Mamyalynne]

//A googolplex is the number 10googol, or equivalently, 10(10100). Written out in ordinary decimal notation, it is 1 followed by 10100 zeroes, that is, a 1 followed by a googol zeroes.//

[Mamyalynne]

Ignore the above - C&p has knocked out the correct notation.

[Peter Pedant]

// that could explain why a few other words don't appear in all dictionaries-//

I dont think Dr Johnson ( who wrote a very famous one) ever implied or stated that if a word was not listed in this Dictionary - then it didnt exist

( cue fave Dr J stories)

asked why he had defined a pastern as the horse's knee instead of the ankle he answered: ignorance Marm sheer ignorance.
actually it appears to be an interphalangeal joint but what the hell this IS AB and no one is reading this.

[Peter Pedant]

oops !
thx - I knew I was on the right track

[Mamyalynne]

Hanging on every word Peter.

[Peter Pedant]

no - yes I mean
people can tell when you mean - "to the power of"

( if you are talking about powers [as in the power of ;uuurve] then it is pretty obvious that 23 is two-cubed)

[vetuste_ennemi]

Anybody who understands the words "lexicon" and "neologism" will know that "google" did not appear in any twentieth century English dictionary. Similarly a specific meaning of "tweet" as a verb.

Just another normal day on...

[vetuste_ennemi]

Still, nice to see Bedlam watchers with their pointy sticks and maiden aunts out to mock the afflicted.