I have only heard of jellomochas

@@SAYFVCKFOR100DOLLARS Who’s that, and does he know fj00?

@@joshuadorsam4619 who is j00

@@SAYFVCKFOR100DOLLARS who is jellomochas

@@joshuadorsam4619 Josh Calomel

Thanks for watching & for the kind words!

Great point, it sure does.... Capitalizing on and flushing out well-scoring plays from seeming drek is the only way to get a W sometimes ~ turning garbage into gold !

Gibsonized was the word I remember for a player who already won the tourney with round/s to spare. I think it was coined from Gibson.

I’ve been playing since the late 1920s and I’ve been hoping for a dedicated scrabble am radio channel but I guess this will have to do.

something tells me you also watch trackmania, which somehow also managed to overlap with those communities

Wow, good catch! :)

Thanks for the info!

Thanks for watching! It means the word was removed from the dictionary, which is rare. Typically, updates always consist of more words being added.

Good point, but from David’s perspective, Nigel could just be struggling with vowels, as opposed to setting up a Y that he already holds…also, a lot of good S plays will end in S as opposed to start with S, so blocking by playing JOES could be less flexible with certain racks.

David never played tournaments that used the "international" lexicon (which contains more words). To make a very loose analogy to golf, it's sort of like how an LIV pro would only face off against a PGA pro at a major (provided both play at that major!).

I think it’s also that Nigel lives in Malaysia and competes only once or twice a year in the US, whereas as David got older, he rarely traveled anywhere he couldn’t drive to. So David’s participation in the Nationals was not guaranteed. Agree with Ryan as well.

Legend has it he doesn’t even own a computer!

Proper nouns don't normally appear in the Scrabble dictionary. JEW appeared in the Scrabble dictionary only because of its derogatory usage alluding to a stereotype, so it was removed.

@@wanderer15 i do see the thread of logic there, but that raises the question of if you even should remove an offensive word for being offensive - which jew objectively isn't, since it alone just _isn't_ a derogatory term - and if so, whether or not all offensive words should be treated alike. It's definitely thought provoking, IMO the error is with having classified "jew" as a derogatory term in the first place - since if that WAS the case, it would be _fine_ as a Scrabble word and shouldn't be removed, and that's coming from a jew. It's like the word "Mexican". Some people say it vitriolically, but that does not a derogatory term make. It reminds me of that early Office episode (i think the pilot?) where they have the cards on their heads and Michael thinks "Mexican" is a slur, but everyone else is telling him that's just the name of the people.

@@wanderer15 (That said, who you are and whether or not you have Jewish ancestry doesn't have anything to do with how valid your opinion is. It gets annoying seeing people say "I don't feel qualified to speak on this" like mf that's _everyone else's_ ad hominem seeping into _your_ self image gtfo here lol)

@@Just.Kidding This issue has been quite the hot-button topic in the Scrabble world since it came up a couple years back (Hasbro and Mattel insisted that a subset of words with discriminatory definitions be removed). Much (but not all) of the Scrabble world has now moved on and adjusted to the new normal, but it does seem to be an issue with reasonable points of view on both sides.

@@Just.Kidding Jew was included in the scrabble dictionary as the derogatory verb meaning 'to bargain with'. As it was only valid under the offensive definition, I can understand their removing of the word alongside others. The argument for including derogatory terms is definitely an interesting conversation, though. I've heard both sides, and can understand both. However, something a professional player once said has stuck with me - that putting a word down on the board seems to them no different than stating it aloud. After it's been played, both players also have to view it for the rest of the game.

because scrabble doesn't allow nouns. Seems jew was defined as a verb being an offensive term for "to bargain with". The scrabble dictionary doesn't usually include hateful words so having straight antisemitism doesn't really fit the vibe.

@@mnm1273 Through watching those Videos i didn't even notice that there were no nouns. Makes sense, then.

@@Michael_800 Sorry I realize I misspoke. No proper nouns. Jew is a proper noun.

@@mnm1273 Ah. That checks out. Thanks :)

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Proper nouns (people, places, titles, things that get capitalized) are not allowed in Scrabble, so a word needs to have a meaning beyond that to be in the Scrabble dictionary. In this case, the word was defined in a way that perpetuated an offensive stereotype, so the word was removed.

@@wanderer15 ohhhh i see ty

Many plans to do international Scrabble History episodes!

Jew and Jews were only included in the Scrabble dictionary because they have alternate usage as verbs ("to jew" someone, meaning to haggle a price down). If you strike out that definition because it's offensive, the only remaining meaning of Jew is as a proper noun. This makes it unplayable in Scrabble, just the same as Muslim, Christian, Hindu, etc. which have never been playable words. Other words that only have offensive definitions (mostly slurs) were removed, but potentially offensive words (like retard and queer) that have benign definitions were kept.

@@DueySR thank you

Any word that looks like a proper noun is in the Scrabble dictionary because it has another definition - JEW was removed because that definition pertained to an offensive stereotype.