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How do you remove slurs from a boardgame where you pick and place letters?
There is an official Scrabble dictionary
Would only really be relevant for tournaments, except the organizing bodies of which aren't affiliated with Hasbro and have their own sets of words and drama over them. People playing casually can just have house rules about whether slurs are or aren't accepted and what counts as one.
Well yeah. When we play Scrabble, the house rule is 'English Wiktionary'
We used to play "if you can convince me it's a word, it counts". I got a triple word score on zaxticuous and that shit got shut down. It means: Having the property or appearance of Zach Morris from Saved by the Bell.
(The events in this comment are a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.)
"Any resemblance to actual persons— Zach Morris or otherwise— or actual events... is purely coincidental."
The best Scrabble move I ever saw:
My brother: "Can you put down swear words?"
My mother: "No."
My brother: (Puts down SHIT) "Not a swear, just what I have to do." (Leaves to go to the bathroom.)
Legendary
Based
Ours was the unabridged OED when I was a kid.
And my father with his English PhD didn't even play.
Tournaments and also digital versions of the game. I think Scrabble might be popular on Facebook?
I'll accept it if its obviously a real word, no matter how offensive it is.
Not if it requires a capital letter though. I'm not a complete animal.
Which had the N-word in it until 2020.
They made it so they don't count for points in the official game