mardi 5 août 2014

'Selfie' and 'Hashtag' Are Now Eligible Words in Scrabble

Scrabble

Family game night has never been so ... millennial?


Hasbro and Merriam-Webster announced that the fifth edition of The Official Scrabble Player’s Dictionary will include 5,000 new words, including selfie, hashtag, bling, chillax, dubstep, vlog, schmutz and buzzkill.



We'll give you a moment to lament the death of the English language


The dictionary's update will be the first in almost a decade. In March, the classic board game used social media to crowdsource one of the game's new words; "geocache" won that race


The big-ticket new word is "quinzhee," which earns players a whopping 401 points if used in a strategic spot on the board (the word means a "shelter made by hollowing out a pile of settled snow"). Read more...


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