WORDnote: We missed National Scrabble Day, which was April
13, but there's always time for a game. Did you know there are 101 2-letter Scrabble words?
S-C-R-A-B-B-L-E
“Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time.
I-T-C-H-I-N.
“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.’”
—Kami
Garcia and Margaret Stohl,
authors, the Beautiful Creatures series, 2009.
• Editorial Comment: The best Scrabble word I ever heard about was Terry Marlow’s
Q-U-I-X-O-T-I-C, played on two triple word spaces. C-A-T is also quite good.
PeezPIX by Ted Pease
Trillium Falls
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