Talk:NASPA Word List

NSA versus Collins editions?

Are the NSA's Official Tournament and Club Word List, 2nd Edition and Collins Scrabble Tournament and Club Word List (July 2007) the same book, or different, and if different, howso? Шизомби (talk) 14:06, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Words allowed in books like "The Complete Word Game Dictionary" are not being allowed in Scrabulous' Sowpods & TWL dictionaries

On page 183 of the "Complete Word Game Dictionary" I mention in this letter's titlehead has 5 columns of 67 words each.

The first column starts with GENOUILLERE and ends with GEOBIONT. The second, and highly relevant to my case, column starts with GEOBIOS and ends with GEOM.

My query is based around the presence of a word that is valid in this particular dictionary but disallowed by the SOWPODS & TWL dictionaries that the Scrabulous website managers have gameplayers operating with.

I must ask the relevant people: How come the word GEOBIOS is deemed a legitimate word by the "Complete Word Game Dictionary" but considered non-existent in the two dictionaries Scrabulous website visitors are restricted to be making use of?

The Scrabulous website managers refuse to allow outsiders from submitting proposals to add new,and valid, words to either of their 2 dictionary services.

I am in the middle of a 4-way Scrabulous match and have found that GEOBIOS exists in "The Complete Word Game Dictionary" but is disallowed by the T.W.L. dictionary being used in this particular match.

Is GEOBIOS a globally recognised and legitimate word for Scrabble players to use and is there ANY way to convince the stubborn Indian businessfolk in charge of the running of the Scrabulous website to accept the fact that its site visitors have every right to propose the addition of a legitimate word??

(provided of course that the proposed addition is not a proper noun or part of the modern day "f" & "c" swearing vernacular)

In anticipation of a constructive and informative response to the above observations & queries.

Yours sincerely,

Christopher Axtens 6 Slater Street, Lismore, New South Wales, Australia Postcode:2480 Phone No.: 61 2 66216015 Email address: sirlancelotofcricket@yahoo.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.200.212.53 (talk) 03:45, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

I think the OWL description is wrong - precisely the opposite of the intended meaning

Under "Past editions", the article currently states, "OWL was then formed by removing possibly offensive words from OSPD3...."

According to the rest of the paragraph, some offensive words were removed from OSPD2 to generate OSPD3. Therefore, I'm guessing that OWL was formed by restoring these possibly offensive words.

I don't play serious Scrabble so I'll decline to be bold, choosing instead to leave it up to knowledgeable editors. JamesMLane t c 07:46, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Went ahead and took care of boldness for you. My electronic copy of the TWL contains the possibly offensive words, and my OSPD4 does not, supporting that the rest of the article was right and that line was wrong. Patrick O'Leary (talk) 04:41, 24 November 2010 (UTC)

Removal of ext links

HumphreyW has removed the external links to word-list sites, saying, "Removing the entire EL section. There are hundreds of these sites around and none of the ones posted are particularly outstanding above the rest. They also added zero encyclopaedic content." There may be hundreds of such sites that are known to Scrabble aficionados but I didn't know about them until finding the links here. It seems to me that some readers would find this content informative. What do others think? JamesMLane t c 14:28, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

That was me that removed the links. The problem I could foresee was the list becoming far too long and uninteresting, with all the little enthusiast sites wanting to promote themselves here. Wikipedia is not a place for oodles of links, it is meant to be an encyclopaedia. If there were one (or two) official site(s) that had the list, then I would be in favour of linking to there only. But as it is now, all the existing websites are just hobbyist sites with no editorial control over content or assurance of accuracy. And actually for people wanting to find word lists and similar type content that is why we have google. HumphreyW (talk) 14:45, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

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Many play Scrabble on Facebook. There should be some discussion of what dictionary is used on FB scrabble games whether the player is in the US or a non TWL06 (SOWPODS) country. Thank you - whoever you are-- that makes this edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.94.148.87 (talk) 03:47, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

The Dictionaries have been updated;

so the article needs to be updated to reflect this change. The Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary is now in it's Fifth edition, and the Official Tournament and Club Word List is now in it's third edition, with over 5,000 new entries.

Current Edition

The section titled "Current Edition" contains this: "In 2016, it was updated again and 1106 words were added, consisting of nines and their plurals. ZIPPINESS is an example of a word that was added."

I'm uncertain whether "nines" is a technical term that I don't know, a typo, or an attempt at humor. Wanderer57 (talk) 00:48, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

"Nines" are nine-letter words. I've changed the article. Dave.Dunford (talk) 13:13, 6 April 2018 (UTC)