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Nov 27, 2012

Do you have any idea how many words we haven't been saying since 1972? No, no one does, because some asshole editor went on a crazy deleting spree a couple decades ago while editing the Oxford English ...

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Jun 26, 2012

I don't want to say too much, because it's best to read it first-hand, but it's a very nice story about a deaf woman who had cochlear implants that helped her hear again. Trouble is, a great deal of h ...

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Jun 21, 2012

WESPA, the World English-Language Scrabble Players Association, has released its first major overhaul of the ratings system since inception,. Several known issues faced by the old system have been rem ...

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Dec 13, 2011

What's your highest scoring game of Scrabble?Since starting this Scrabble World, I've been able to break 500 points on a regular basis. This year I've even managed to break the 600-point barrier a cou ...

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Dec 12, 2011

Alec Baldwin loves word games? Enough to get kicked off an airplane? Apparently.Yesterday, while sitting in first class on his American Airlines flight back to New York from LAX, a flight attendant "r ...

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Nov 29, 2011

What happens when a struggling writer cannot finish the screenplay to her second film?She writes a book.While artist and filmmaker Miranda July was struggling to conceive the script to The Future, the ...

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Oct 25, 2011

Electronic Arts (EA) and Hasbro have always been a little slow at adapting Scrabble for the cyber culture. They failed to beat Scrabulous to the Facebook market by a whole year, but managed to save fa ...

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Oct 18, 2011

Cheating. It happens everywhere. From scientists faking human ears on mice, to Hollywood thirty-somethings cheating on their quadragenarian wives, to chess players accusing supercomputers of fraud. Th ...

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Oct 17, 2011

Last weekend the 2011 World Scrabble Championship was held at the Hilton Hotel in Warsaw, Poland. There were 106 players competing from 44 countries for the $20,000 first place prize and title of Worl ...