The all-new 5th edition of the "Official Scrabble Players Dictionary" went on sale today.
Over 5,000 new words have been added, meaning 5k+ new ways to score in Scrabble.
Some of the now-legal words include:
SELFIE
CHILLAX
BEATBOX
HASHTAG
FRENEMY
GEOCACHE
MIXTAPE
VODCAST
VLOG
TEXTER
MOJITO
OOF
FRACKING
DUBSTEP
DA
PO
QUINZHEE
YUZU
WEBZINE
Great little opinion piece on this topic from the Washington Post:
I wonder how many words were taken out of the dictionary?
5,000 in..... #### out. Who knows?
OUTFORNOW (15 points)......
Matt