Official Scrabble Dictionary is selling like crazy. By 1994 in Australia and 2001 in the United Kingdom, these two publications were amalgamated, producing the first truly official Scrabble dictionary in the English language. Also, arguments have raged over which words are appropriate for inclusion in an official Scrabble dictionary.
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Scrabble is owned internationally by two different companies, and each owner prescribes its own official dictionary. As far as it goes, the large print edition is fine, but since my aim was to be exposed to the meanings of all of the thousands of new words that have been deemed acceptable in Scrabble, this Amazon purchase failed to meet my expectations. It is true that the book is endorsed by the National Scrabble Association (NSA), and the widely respected publisher Merriam is just reporting what NSA wants.
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For those folks who want the "dirty" words as well, it can always be agreed in advance to use the current Webster's dictionary or whatever in addition to this book. ) This review is from: The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Hardcover) For example, the back cover declares "Features more than 100,000 two-to-eight-letter words, including 4,000 new entries. They need a dictionary only to check spelling, and as we have seen, OSPD is worse than useless.
