Scrabble updates (and dumbs down) its list of accepted words

We’re completely devo’d to see that that the world of Scrabble has obvs gone ridic with these new accepted ‘words’…

Yeesh it seems that the popular boardgame is cazh-ing in on the changing vernacular of the modern era as seen by this totally dench list featuring lotsa new words.

Take a look at some of the newly accepted words and the categories that they fall into…

Slang words

• Bezzy – best friend (18 points)
• Cakeages – charges in a restaurant for serving cake brought in from outside (15 points)
• Cakehole – mouth (17 points)
• Dench – excellent (11 points)
• Devo – short for devolution (8 points)
• Geocache – search for hidden containers using GPS as a recreational activity (16 points)
• Lolz – laughs at someone else’s or one’s own expense (13 points)
• Lotsa – lots of (5 points)
• Newb – newbie (9 points)
• Obvs – obviously (9 points)
• Onesie – one-piece garment combining a top with trousers (6 points)
• Podiumed – past tense of podium, finish in the top three places in a sporting competition (14 points)
• Ridic – ridiculous (8 points)
• Shizzle – a form of US rap slang (18 points)
• Shootie – type of shoe that covers the ankle (10 points)
• Thanx – thank you (15 points)
• Tuneage – music (8 points)
• Twerking – type of dance involving rapid hip movement (16 points)
• Vape – to inhale nicotine vapour (from an electronic cigarette) (9 points)
• Wuz – non-standard spelling of was (15 points)

Technology and electronic communications

• Facetime – talk with (someone) via the FaceTime application (15 points)
• Hacktivist – person who hacks computer systems for political reasons (22 points)
• Hashtag – a word or phrase preceded by a hashmark on Twitter, used to denote the topic of a post (14 points)
• Sexting – practice of sending sexually explicit text messages (15 points)
• Showrooming – practice of looking at an item in a shop, using a smartphone to compare its price elsewhere, then buying it online (20 points)
• Tweep – person who uses Twitter (10 points)
• Warbot – any robot or unmanned vehicle or device designed for and used in warfare (11 points)

The highest scoring new words

• Cazh – casual (18 points)
• Checkbox – small clickable box on a computer screen (28 points)
• Cinq – number five (15 points)
• Coqui – type of tree-dwelling frog (16 points)
• Emoji – digital icon used in electronic communication (14 points)
• Oxazole – type of liquid chemical compound (23 points)
• Paczki – round filled doughnut (23 points)
• Quinzhee – shelter made from hollowed-out snow (29 points)
• Schvitz – to sweat (24 points)

FYI, this writer just died a little inside after typing all of those ‘words’. Fo’ shizzle.

(H/T The Metro)