Words With Friends

[Girl Nexxxt Door]

I've had some free time recently...and decided to take up an old hobby with a friend! Scrabble...iPhone Style.

The game was getting hot and heavy until I confused the hell out of them by attempting to use DATY in a triple word slot, arguing that YES YES YES it WAS a real word! he he

Well, WE all know it's a real word.

[bluffcityguy]

Originally Posted by Girl Nexxxt Door

I've had some free time recently...and decided to take up an old hobby with a friend! Scrabble...iPhone Style.

The game was getting hot and heavy until I confused the hell out of them by attempting to use DATY in a triple word slot, arguing that YES YES YES it WAS a real word! he he

Well, WE all know it's a real word.

ISTR that the official rules of Scrabble say that in order to be a "word" the character string you're going to use has to be "in the dictionary", with the specific dictionary to be used to resolve challenges being decided by the players prior to the start of the game. So just find yourself a dictionary which lists "DATY" in it, and you're as legal as church on Sunday.

[Yes, bcg has insisted in more than one Scrabble game that we use the 20 volume unabridged Oxford English Dictionary as the official game dictionary. We were playing at my apartment, and I do own one (the two volume edition which shows 4 pages of the original on each of its pages, complete with magnifying glass, which you do need...). As I like to say, the true mark of a pedant is that he owns the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary and isn't afraid to use it.]

Cheers,

bcg

[Girl Nexxxt Door]

Oh BCG, stop being so correct so early in the morning. My powers of debating the validity of my make-believe words could possibly overshadow an Oxford English Dictionary. :P

[Mr.Chan]

I am going to have to try WWF. Personally, I can think of worse things than playing with a girl who thinks DATY should be in the dictionary. You know from the start she has some experience

[bluffcityguy]

Originally Posted by Girl Nexxxt Door

Oh BCG, stop being so correct so early in the morning.

'tain't never gonna happen. My pedantic tendencies are embedded in my DNA.

OTOH, nobody here should in any way wonder why I can't get laid without paying for it.



Cheers,

bcg

[figure_artist]

one might simply argue that it's a word according to the Urban Dictionary.

it's been bookmarked next to this site since first joining the old forum.

[charlestudor2005]

Originally Posted by figure_artist

one might simply argue that it's a word according to the Urban Dictionary.

it's been bookmarked next to this site since first joining the old forum.

+1

I vote for Urban Dictionary. We are all familiar with most words there. Besides, it is easy to navigate there on the iPhone.