edited from email messages sent by [[Jim Pate]], chair of the
[[Dictionary Committee]].
For a more technical discussion of how [[OTCWL2018]] was edited,
see the [[OTCWL2018 editorial process]].
The reason that words like UQUQ(filial impiety), ZEN, and CUZ NOIO (a Hawaiian bird) or MONOID (a type of mathematical set) are not in the [[Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary]] (OSPD) nor in the [[Official Tournament and Club Word List]] (OWL) is that they have not appeared as lowercase, non-apostrophized, non-hyphenated, non-foreign, single-wordentries been found listed appropriately in any of the source dictionaries that were used to createand to update these official SCRABBLE lists. ”Appropriately“ here means that a word must appear at least once without any of the following disqualifications: * capital letters in the word* punctuation marks in the word* labelled as foreign (or a specific language other than English)* labelled as an abbreviation* appearing as part of a phrase The four college levelsource dictionaries used to create the [[OSPD4 ]] and the [[OWL2 ]] were:
* Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition
been one of the source dictionaries for the OSPD official words.
Jim Lowe, past Senior Editor at Merriam-Webster, Inc. suggests suggested sending
a dozen or so documented print usages of the proposed words to them
for their citation files. Google Books is a great way to find citations.
by all means free to do so. Of course, if you play at a NASPA club
or sanctioned tournament then the word list used for adjudication
there would be the OWL2current edition of [[OTCWL]]. (If you cannot get all of the people in
your group to allow these words in all the games you play, you might
want to suggest including them as acceptable in a certain percentage