The Scrabble Dictionary has been Updated with New Words

The seventh edition of The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary will be available later this month. Last updated in 2018, it contains around 500 new words that have come into common usage. All the new words are in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, which is updated constantly. You may or may not be familiar with them. Here's a few interesting examples.

adulting
deadname
dox
dumpster (formerly a brand name)
eggcorn
embiggen
fauxhawk
hygge
subtweet
unfollow
unsub
yeehaw (they admit this is not new)
zonkey
zoomer

If you play Scrabble, you've probably already tried to use these words, and you could get away with it if no one in the room had an official Scrabble Dictionary. Until you get your new copy, you can refer any protesters to this post. A lot of words have been deleted from the new edition, mainly racial and ethnic slurs and otherwise offensive words. As always, the Scrabble tournament edition is somewhat different. See more of the new words in an AP article. -via Metafilter


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Roundabouts are the best thing since sliced bread... traffic lights are a waste, letting cars cross lanes of traffic to turn is dangerous... just go up to the next orbital and pull a 'U'. Amazing that in the good old USA, where we have lots of room, we still put up with stop signs and lights everywhere, but in GB/Europe, where land is at a premium, they 'waste' the space to put them in. Roundabouts work, no doubt about it.
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The big problems that stem from putting roundabouts in the States is that the things aren't typically taught in driver's ed classes nor the driver's test (most places), likely because they're a rarity. Those two things create a lot of confusion when people here are confronted with them.
A city near me put a roundabout in a few years ago and the uproar it caused was tremendous.
They do make sense, WHEN people know how to use them.
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I don't know about the rest of the country, but in the last few years my Pacific NW town has installed roundabouts in several places. Mostly seem to work OK, though a logging truck recently managed to dump its load trying to drive through one.
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I've come across one roundabout, but apparently it didn't work well, because there are now stop signs controlling two directions of the four, but they didn't remove the roundabout, so it seems to be a way to slow traffic through the intersection.
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