Why is the computer allowed to cheat and play things that aren words?
I am very surprised that many people asked me this question. How can you possibly say that something isn’t a word, just because you’ve never seen it? The English dictionary is the Official Scrabble Dictionary used for Scrabble tournaments in the USA. All of the words in it are acceptable words, though many of them are rare and may look somewhat strange. If you are curious about what certain words mean, you can look them up on Hasbro’s Scrabble website (http://hasbroscrabble.com). But ED (education) and IFF (if and only if) aren’t words! They’re abbreviations! No, they’re not. FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), TV (television) and e.g. (exempli gratia) are abbreviations; ed and iff are examples of shortened versions of words or expressions. If you were to reject them as abbreviations, you would also have to reject “cinema” (short for “cinematography”), “glyph” (short for “hieroglyph”), or “typo” (short for “typographical error”). No way you can convince me that “CRWTH” is an English
