![]() “There’s so many more opportunities to play a little differently because of these new words,” the Toronto-based Scrabble expert Robin Pollock Daniel, 60, told the Post. The expansion of the dictionary is a new opportunity for Scrabble enthusiasts and word nerds alike to score more points in an average game. “A grammatical distinction that allows for new plays.” “So much about the new words for SCRABBLE are consequences of the way dictionaries classify words,” tweeted the dictionary’s official account. Other nouns that have gotten the verb treatment include adult and spitball. “We’re recording that, and now it’s playable.” “If I had to pick a favorite one, it would be the verbing of verb, because it’s a linguistic phenomenon that has real consequences in the game,” Merriam-Webster’s editor at large, Peter Sokolowski, told the Washington Post. Scrabble officials have also made verb a verb, which means players can now play tense changes such as “verbing”. For example, dumpster, previously categorized as a trademark, is now a noun. The dictionary did come with some surprising additions. Carnitas and horchata, both Spanish words, are now playable as is iftar, the meal eaten at sundown by Muslims during Ramadan. The newest dictionary also expanded words from foreign languages that are frequently used in English, reported the Associated Press. Several food items including queso, guac and matcha were also included. Others stem from the world of current affairs, such as subtweet and vax. Some of the expanded lexicon included terms initially popularised in slang, such as adorbs (adorable), amirite (am I right) and bae (loosely, babe ).
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