• mozz
    7•5 months ago

    Interesting information and accurate but this is not what’s useful for playing Scrabble

    Actually useful things for every Scrabble player to memorize:

    • The full list of 2-letter words
    • The full list of words that have “Q” but not “U”
    • Have some familiarity with common bingos (7-letter words)

    If you wanted to proceed from there, you could study the 3-letter words, and expand your study of the bingos and expand it to 8-letter words.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•5 months ago

      Well aren’t you going to feel foolish the next time you hit the odds on the 1-in-347,222,222,222 chance you draw MUZJIKS for your opening draw but only play KUMIS like a dumb peasant.

  • @LedivinEnglish
    5•5 months ago

    Wouldn’t the currency be a proper noun, and therefore invalid?

    • @[email protected]English
      6•5 months ago

      The currency is sometimes considered a proper noun, the individual denominations are always considered common nouns.

      if I’m working on the stock exchange I might track the value of the Dollar (a proper noun). If I’m buying from your lemonade stand I’d give you a dollar (a common noun).

      likewise the Ouguiya is worth about 1/400th of the US Dollar. If you go to the bank, they could give you a 1 ouguiya coin.

      Here’s a source and here is the MLA style guide not capitalizing dollar.