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English-language Scrabble as a whole is played to two lexica, depending on country. Currently, 49 approximately 50 countries use CSW, and 3 use predominantly the [[NASPA Word List]]('''NWL'''), the North American lexicon), with some CSW play. These countries are Canada, Israel, and the United States.
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== Statistics ==
== Coinage ==
The name “SOWPODS” was coined as an anagram of OSW+OSPD, the names of the two lexicons (the British Official Scrabble Words and the American Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary) that were originally merged to form SOWPODS. The SOWPODS word list is currently edited by the [[WESPA]] Dictionary Committee; comments concerning the list should be directed to the NASPA [[International Committee]]. The CSW word list contains almost all of the words found in the [[OTCWL|OTCWL16NASPA Word List]], as well as a large number of other English words from around the world.
== More information ==
<br>Please direct comments about this page to its author, [[Nick Ball]].
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[1] List of CSW countries derived from players with an active international rating at http://www.wespa.org/aardvark/cgi-bin/rating.cgi . We are happy to add any countries omitted by this method.
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