Does the scrabble dictionary contain all the words in the english language for players?
Creation The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary was first published in 1978[1] through the efforts of the National Scrabble Association (NSA) Dictionary Committee and Merriam-Webster. The OSPD was developed as the word authority for NSA-sanctioned clubs and tournaments. Selchow and Righter, the owners of Scrabble at the time, proposed that words contained in at least one of the following five dictionaries should be in the OSPD: Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eighth Edition (1973), Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary of the English Language (1973), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (1969), Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition (1970), and The Random House College Dictionary (1968).[1] The compilation was produced by hand and many errata and omissions were later discovered. For example, the word granola was present in all five nominated dictionaries but not in the OSPD. A second edition, OSPD 2, was released in 1991. The current edition is OSPD
Creation The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary was first published in 1978[1] through the efforts of the National Scrabble Association (NSA) Dictionary Committee and Merriam-Webster. The OSPD was developed as the word authority for NSA-sanctioned clubs and tournaments. Selchow and Righter, the owners of Scrabble at the time, proposed that words contained in at least one of the following five dictionaries should be in the OSPD: Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eighth Edition (1973), Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary of the English Language (1973), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (1969), Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition (1970), and The Random House College Dictionary (1968).[1] The compilation was produced by hand and many errata and omissions were later discovered. For example, the word granola was present in all five nominated dictionaries but not in the OSPD. A second edition, OSPD 2, was released in 1991. The current edition is OSPD
