NewsTalk 1280 WGBF » scrabble http://newstalk1280.com Mon, 20 May 2013 15:26:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 S-C-R-A-B-B-L-E, It's an Evansville Scrabble Tournament Hosted by The Literacy Center http://newstalk1280.com/s-c-r-a-b-b-l-e-its-an-evansville-scrabble-tournament-hosted-by-the-literacy-center/ http://newstalk1280.com/s-c-r-a-b-b-l-e-its-an-evansville-scrabble-tournament-hosted-by-the-literacy-center/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:00:59 +0000 Dave Westrich http://wjltevansville.com/?p=140604 Scrabble's always been one of my favorite games, so when I saw the 10th Annual Letters for Literacy Scrabble Tournament coming up on Saturday, Feb. 23, I immediately wanted to blog about it.  It's not just the fun of the game that attracts me, it's because it's a fundraiser for The Literacy Center, too!

]]> http://newstalk1280.com/s-c-r-a-b-b-l-e-its-an-evansville-scrabble-tournament-hosted-by-the-literacy-center/feed/ 0 (John Gichigi /Allsport) 'Grrl,' 'Thang,' 'Facebook' Added to Scrabble Dictionary http://newstalk1280.com/grrl-thang-facebook-added-to-scrabble-dictionary/ http://newstalk1280.com/grrl-thang-facebook-added-to-scrabble-dictionary/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 17:37:04 +0000 brad.bruner http://newstalk1280.com/?p=1986 Are you desperately searching for that perfect triple-word score? Well, Scrabble is here to help.

The Scotsman is reporting that Scrabble has added everything from slang to social media to the Collins Official Scrabble Words book.

Yep, that means you can now play such words as "grrl," "thang," "innit," "Facebook" and "MySpace." (We're totally blaming AT&T for this one.)

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