[BipolarBob]

New and Improved! With more curse words! Ebonics freely accepted and encouraged. Misspelled words are fine too. The new diverse, equitable and inclusive Scrabble board game. IF you are accused of cheating, we don't judge a little stabbing and gunfire.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Before there were two versions of Scrabble, there were two Scrabble dictionaries. The OWL (Official Word List) had all words that were in at least one of four different dictionaries including swear words, racial epithets, etc. The dictionary you could buy at Barnes & Noble had all the offensive words eliminated.

Then the PC crowd came in and eliminated all of the offensive words from the Official Word List. So no ebonics with or without the hard-R.

There are still some words allowed which are offensive, but are included if they have at least one inoffensive definition, e.g. BITCH and FAGGOT.

JEW, used as a verb, used to be a word seen on a lot of Scrabble boards because of its high scoring possibilities. That word was removed from the Official Word List, even though many of the people petitioning the Scrabble Assoc. to keep it in are Jews.

IRONY is still a valid Scrabble word.

[scrabblehack]

Unfortunately, NASPA did approve such words as ENUF. (Ostensibly because best-selling dictionaries did).