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Derived from the Greek name Νικόλαος (Nikolaos), understood to mean "victory of the people", being a compound of νίκη nikē "victory" and λαός Laos "people". Oswald: Oßwald: Oßwalt: m: Composed of two Anglo-Saxon elements, Ōs meaning "god" and weald meaning "rule" or "power" Paul: Paulß [34] Paulus, Pauluß: m
As a consonant, it is pronounced as a palatal approximant /j/, typically at the beginnings of words in front of short or long vowels. A long /iː/ usually in the middle or end of words. In this case it has no diacritic, but could be marked with a kasra in the preceding letter in some traditions.
This list of all two-letter combinations includes 1352 (2 × 26 2) of the possible 2704 (52 2) combinations of upper and lower case from the modern core Latin alphabet. A two-letter combination in bold means that the link links straight to a Wikipedia article (not a disambiguation page).
Letters 16 and 17 form a two-letter word ending in P. Since this has to be UP, letter 16 is a U, which can be filled into the appropriate clue answer in the list of clues. Likewise, a three-letter word starting with A could be and, any, all, or even a proper name like Ann. One might need more clue answers before daring to guess which it could be.
IJ, a double lake in the Netherlands (the digraph IJ is sometimes considered a single letter in Dutch, so this could also be seen as a one-letter name) Ik, a river in Russia; Iž, an island in Croatia; Io, innermost moon of Jupiter; Io, an island in Vestland, Norway; Io, alternative name of an island in the Aegean, Greece
Local variants include Take One or Take Four; the banning of 2 letter words; having a dictionary on hand for any players to use (but since it is a game of speed, this doesn't get used much); a bonus of 50 points for building a specific word, a bonus for longest word (number of letters in word, not tile values; and only if a single player has ...
In Anagrams, players flip tiles over one at a time and race to take words. They can "steal" each other's words by rearranging the letters and extending the words. In a version of Scrabble called Clabbers, the name itself is an anagram of Scrabble. Tiles may be placed in any order on the board as long as they anagram to a valid word.
Accented letters: â ç è é ê î ô û, rarely ë ï ; ù only in the word où, à only at the ends of a few words (including à).Never á í ì ó ò ú.; Angle quotation marks: « » (though "curly-Q" quotation marks are also used); dialogue traditionally indicated by means of dashes.