Scrabble just got a lot sextier

22 May 2015 - 02:08 By Staff reporter

If you dabble in Scrabble and grabble for words you can make from the seven tiles on your holder, we have some good news for you. Traditionalists might "blech" and "grr" about it but the BBC has reported that the latest Collins Scrabble Word List includes 6500 new words, many of them slang terms used on social media and in text messages.Not only are eew, yeesh, waah, augh, blech, eew, grr, waah and yeesh part of the new dictionary but so are twerking, emoji, bezzy (best friend) and ridic (short for ridiculous). And, yes, you can finally use Scrabble to sext, or at least use "sext" in Scrabble.Hashtag and facetime have also become acceptable words in the game, the BBC reported.Some might see it as the devo (short for devolution) of the game, but new words mean new scoring opportunities. Cazh (meaning casual) is 18 points just on its own (no triple-letter or double-word score) and, if you want to use an "X" just say thanx (15 points).One the highest-scoring new entries is quinzhee - an Inuit snow shelter - that nabs 29 points.Hacktivist will collect 22 points.The Scrabble dictionary includes words from Australia, Canada, South Africa, the UK and the US in a single list. ..

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