Innit?
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I assume you mean "really don't think" in your last line?
One factual error - the term Facebook is actually a term used by American universities for - literally - a "book of faces", a book of photos with names that they give out at the start of each year, so students can recognise each other.
But yeah, "innit" is a contraction of "isn't it" (which is already itself a contraction of "is it not") - if they're not allowing contractions, they shouldn't allow "innit".
One factual error - the term Facebook is actually a term used by American universities for - literally - a "book of faces", a book of photos with names that they give out at the start of each year, so students can recognise each other.
But yeah, "innit" is a contraction of "isn't it" (which is already itself a contraction of "is it not") - if they're not allowing contractions, they shouldn't allow "innit".
Slang has been allowed in Scrabble from the beginning.
Yes, I often make that mistake. I have corrected it.
Did the slang word have to be in the dictionary?
I know that my mother didn't allow us to use slang when we played as children.
I remember playing with a friend who refused me to use the word 'pox' because she considered it an indecent word. She also had a problem with someone using the word 'tit'.
"Pox" is indecent? If she were writing an essay about the history of deadly epidemics, would she spell it "smallp-x"?
Is that some sort of Britishism?
Tit, by contrast, I sort of get, but the only fun part of Scrabble is the off chance of spelling vulgar words.
Is that some sort of Britishism?
Tit, by contrast, I sort of get, but the only fun part of Scrabble is the off chance of spelling vulgar words.
It's a popular misconception that slang words aren't allowed, but there's nothing prohibiting it in the rules (curse words are allowed in the tournament version as well).
But yes, for tournament play the slang word has to be in one of the four major college-level dictionaries used to compile the official word list. For home play we just went by what was in our Webster's dictionary.
But yes, for tournament play the slang word has to be in one of the four major college-level dictionaries used to compile the official word list. For home play we just went by what was in our Webster's dictionary.
I don't understand why anyone would think that pox is an "indecent" word. "Tit" at least has some history among those who are offended by such things, but it's also a kind of bird.
When using 'tit' when playing Scrabble it could be referring to any of a number of species of bird. Not vulgar at all.
I tried her to convince her about 'pox' using the example of smallpox but she refused to believe that it referred to anything other than syphilis. She said smallpox was always smallpox not 'pox'.
I didn't realize Shakespeare was cursing them with venerial diseases.
Don't you have a dictionary handy for such occasions? It's pretty hard to argue against the OED.
Honestly, I don't think i'd want to play Scrabble against someone who doesn't even know that pox and tit are real non-slang words. Sounds like a tremendous waste of time.
So as a child when I had chickenpox, I really had chicken syphilis?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pox
It refers to "pockmarks" - small round blemishes on the surface of something. If they appear on your skin, you have "pock-marks", shortened to "pocks", or "pox".
It refers to "pockmarks" - small round blemishes on the surface of something. If they appear on your skin, you have "pock-marks", shortened to "pocks", or "pox".
"Innit." - "Agree with me."
'Resistance is futile!'
"Ya get me." - "This is something that's soo true you'd have little choice but to agree with me about therefore, you understand this disgression."
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'Resistance is futile!'"Ya get me." - "This is something that's soo true you'd have little choice but to agree with me about therefore, you understand this disgression."
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She also argued when I put the word gaol down. She asked me what it was. She said it was spelt 'jail'. I told her 'gaol' was the British spelling but she disagreed. In the end I reversed the a and o and used the work "goal' to shut her up.
I didn't end up playing many games with her. We played at her place and she owned the Scrabble game so I think she thought her rules had to apply. She did end up getting a small, pocket dictionary but that didn't help much because she was using to find words when it was her go.
It makes me think of pirate stories. They're always being thrown in gaol.
Yes, as were convicts in Australia though at times the word prison was used. Prison is the more usual term today.
For example we have
Old Melbourne Gaol
Richmond Gaol
H.M. Prison Pentridge
Once many years ago, their used to be a talk-back show on radio here. This wasn't the normal sort of talkback we get today. This talk back show was intelligent and informative and was hosted by a man called Rik Patterson. One day the topic was about spelling, pronunciations etc. One old guy rang in and complained about the way 'margarine' was pronounced. He said he always pronounced the 'ga' sound like it was in Margaret. He said in no other word was it pronounced as in 'jar'. He said that it could only have a 'j' sound is followed by an 'e', an 'o' , a 'u' or an 'i'.
I phone in and said the British word "gaol' had a 'ja' sound. Rik Patterson said "Yes, you are right. The British G-A-O-L- sound the same as the American J-A-I-L so therefore it is OK to pronounce margarine with a 'ja" sound"