Scrabble bans 236 bigoted words, slurs from official list

New York Post ^ | July 2020 | Natalie O'Neill

[UnwashedPeasant]

236! Wow, they have a strong imagination.

Is there a list of the forbidden words? Or are they so forbidden that there is not even a list?

[Pontiac]

Thus ends my dreams of a professional Scrabble career.

[LateBoomer]

I enjoy playing Scrabble and it has never occurred to me to use a slur or racist terminology.

[Keyhopper]

Good one!

[Repeat Offender]

Webster’s was first. They changed the definition of “racism.”

[drSteve78]

You are right, but F E C K is worth more.

[rfp1234]

I know, I put the asterisks because the thought police are monitoring everything these days.

[frank ballenger]

There was a classic Far Side cartoon of the bearded psychiatrist sitting and listening to a patient blabbing away.
On his note pad he had written:
Just
Plain
Nuts.

That’s what America sounds like now. Banning Scrabble words?

[sphinx]

There are still “correct” and “incorrect” ways to spell words? I thought that was racist.

[Dr. Sivana]

Dirty words are ok but you have to do a shot of tequila. I think our “dirty word” collection just got bigger. Better go buy more limes...

You just gave me a great idea! How about playing Scrabble with ONLY the forbidden words?

[arthurus]

I never used the scrabble dictionary anyway. my preferred is Webster 2nd International, the last one before very utterance that that can be identified as having been used by two or more inebreants is listed as a legitimate word.

[wally_bert]

Just like those phone cops back in the 70s.

[ml/nj]

Is schvatza allowed?

ML/NJ

[Empireoftheatom48]

Ha, are they going to station word police in homes.

[moehoward]

DEAD HONKEY!

[yesthatjallen]

Did they publish the list of banned words?

If so please post the link.

[butlerweave]

If you play it than just make your own Rules

[P.O.E.]

Coccyx?

[Hardastarboard]

LOL! There’s the reality of it.

[Tunehead54]

“A”? ;-)