Tuesday, August 05, 2014

New edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD5), due out Aug. 11

As per the latest articles I've read today, more than 5,000 words have been added to the new edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD5) published by Merriam-Webster, due out Aug. 11.

Some of the words mentioned were:
BEATBOX
BOXLA
BROMANCE
BUZZKILL
CHILLAX
COQUI
DUBSTEP
FRANKUM
FRENEMY
GEOCACHE (Scrabble Showdown Winner in the cover of new OSPD5 book)
HASHTAG
INUKSUK
JEEZELY
JOCKDOM
JOYPAD
MIXTAPE
MOJITO
NIAGARA (nice anagram of ANGARIA)
QAJAQ (meaning, Inuit spelling for kayak)
QAMUTIK
QUINZHEE
QULLIK
RUBBYDUB
SCHMUTZ
SELFIE
SUDOKU
and more!

Some other new OSPD5 words already in CSW12 include:
AGLOO
BLING
CENTIMETRE
DA
EMO
FAVOURITE
GI
ICEWINE
MEH
MILLIMETRE
PO
PONZU
QIGONG
TE
TEXTER
VLOG
YUZU
and more!


You can read the whole articles in the following webpages:
 1. The Register-Guard
 2. New York Daily News
 3. Canadian National Post
 4. Chicago Tribune
 5. CNN

If there is OSPD5, then the 3rd edition of Official Tournament Club & Word List (OTCWL3) will be likewise available for NSA members soon.

I hope Zyzzyva app will update the word list for Scrabble player's reference, later.



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