Comments on: Scrabulous and four-letter words http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/03/18/scrabulous-four-letter-words-and-racial-slurs/ At the intersection of business and technology Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:59:37 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Froilan, Woodside, New York http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/03/18/scrabulous-four-letter-words-and-racial-slurs/#comment-1610 Froilan, Woodside, New York Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:36:12 +0000 http://fortunetechland.wordpress.com/?p=349#comment-1610 They were expurged from the "Official" Scrabble Player's Dictionary (OSPD), but those expurged words are routinely used in tournament games. Dictionaries used for tournaments, in Scrabulous or ISC (internet scrabble club, isc.ro) are either TWL (The Word List) for North America or SOWPODS (anagram of OSPD and SOW (Official Scrabble Words) for the non-North America players. They were expurged from the “Official” Scrabble Player’s Dictionary (OSPD), but those expurged words are routinely used in tournament games. Dictionaries used for tournaments, in Scrabulous or ISC (internet scrabble club, isc.ro) are either TWL (The Word List) for North America or SOWPODS (anagram of OSPD and SOW (Official Scrabble Words) for the non-North America players.

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