WORDnote: Saturday was National Scrabble Day. Did you know there are 101 2-letter Scrabble words?
S-C-R-A-B-B-L-E
“Aunt Grace leaned closer to the board, squinting. ‘Mercy Lynne, you’re cheatin’ again! What kinda word is that? Use it in a sentence.’
“‘I’m itchin’ ta have some a that white cake.’
“‘That’s not how you spell it.’ At least one of them could spell. Aunt Grace pulled one of the tiles off the board.
“‘There’s no T in itchin.’”
—Margaret Stohl, coauthor, the Beautiful Creatures series
• Editorial Comment: The best Scrabble play I ever saw was Q-U-I-X-O-T-I-C on two triple word spaces.
• Related: “National Scrabble Day: A Poem So You’ll Know All 101 Two-Letter Words,”
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