My crack
I gave up Scrabulous for a while because it was affecting my ability to even pretend to be a law student -- for a while last semester, I could more accurately be described as a random lump sitting in a law school classroom that had wireless access. Well, it was most notable in two classes.
I was jonesing for a QUIZ on a triple word score though, and I came back with a vengence in the last week.
My Bingos in the last 7 days:
OXYGENS (for 135)
SoNGBIRD (for 89)
DELIMIT (for 84)
TIRELESs (for 74)
Sure, its no 200 point SeQUOIAs, nor is it a Super-Bingo like SINGHIOZZEREBBE, neither of which have I managed in my brief Scrabulous career.
But I'll take it.
(For those out of the loop, Scrabulous is the Facebook Scrabble application. I am not as good at Scrab in real life anymore... I've gotten used to planning my moves on the board.)
8 little fish:
I'm very impressed with those words! I'm a horrible scrabble player. Once in college we played dirty scrabble- my best word was "did" as in "they 'did' it."
First off, what the hell is oxygens? When would you ever use that?
Second, I was expecting an entirely different kind of post when I read the title.
Third, here's a scrabble story: Right before my friend and I graduated, our teacher, who was also sort of our friend but not at all in a creepy way, invited us to stop by her place because she was moving or something. Anyway, we didn't know this when we headed over, but there were other teachers there because, apparently, teachers, much like real people, have friends. Anyway, we started playing Scrabble. My friend and I together against a team of a Scrabble Nazi and an English teacher. We lost, but not before we managed to convince the English teacher both that "haikus" is a perfectly valid plural and that "quince" was a word. Awesome.
As I suspected, HAIKUS and QUINCE are both valid -- I checked the Scrabulous dictionary which is based on the official scrab dictionary.
Sorry if that cheapens your victory.
In this vein, favorite words I have learned are valid:
QAT
QI(S)
XI(S)
JO
If you can get that J Q or X on a triple letter score, its a good day.
Also, just did a cheap bingo with OVERBORN. 64.
Since when is the Scrabulouus dictionary the authority on English? No way is "haikus" valid. The plural of "haiku" is "haiku." It's like "deer." Anyone that says different is mistaken.
I was only asserting that those words were valid in Scrab-land. Not making any claim they are approriate English.
Thanks for the reminder of Scrabulous!!! I had a lot of fun in my legal profession class today, although the class was so mind-numbing that I didn't do very well because I couldn't really manage to seriously focus on Scrabulous :)
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