The Wire has been doing something similar for the month of March, offering bracket competitions in various categories, up for public vote. Setting aside the silliness of only updating what seems to be an online dictionary once per decade, I remain skeptical about the wisdom of leaving any significant decision up for a public vote, particularly when the voting public consists chiefly of Internet commenters. From all the suggestions posted, the contest officials will choose sixteen words to place in a March Madness-style bracket, with people voting for which entries move on from one round to the next, and the winning word announced on April 10.
Schuessler writes that Hasbro, the game’s manufacturer, suggested newly coined words like “selfie” (because if the OED is going to be awful, why not join in?). Nominations are currently open for anybody to post their suggestions on the Facebook page for the contest, through March 28. Jennifer Schuessler writes for the New York Times that the first ever official Scrabble Word Showdown kicked off last week, opening the doors for lexicology enthusiasts to nominate words to be officially inducted into the new edition of the dictionary.
Scrabble dictionary in search of new wordsįor the first time in nine years, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online Official Scrabble Players Dictionary is getting an update. Scrabble dictionary in search of new words » MobyLives
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