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NASPA Word List (NWL, formerly Official Tournament and Club Word List, referred to as OTCWL, OWL, TWL) is the official word authority for tournament Scrabble in the USA and Canada under the aegis of NASPA Games. [1] It is based on the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) with modifications to make it more suitable for tournament play.
This is a list of candidates for the longest English word of one syllable, i.e. monosyllables with the most letters. A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled. [1] Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed. [2] Other sources include words as long ...
A heterogram (from hetero-, meaning 'different', + -gram, meaning 'written') is a word, phrase, or sentence in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once. The terms isogram and nonpattern word have also been used to mean the same thing. [1] [2] [3] It is not clear who coined or popularized the term "heterogram".
Betteridge's law of headlines: "any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no ' ". Betz's law: No wind turbine can capture more than 16/27 (59.3%) of the kinetic energy in wind, independent of the design of the turbine, in open flow. Biot–Savart law describes the magnetic field set up by a steady current density.
Heartbroken family and friends moved to identify the growing number of victims after a terrorism suspect plowed a car into a large crowd in New Orleans on New Year's. The suspect, Shamsud-Din ...
English lexicographer Jonathon Green, a specialist in the English slang language, has compiled a large number of one-letter word meanings in English, most of which do not appear in Conley's dictionary. [79] The following table compares the number of meanings given to English one-letter words by these two lexicographers.
Wells went on to win a trip to New York City, including a VIP ticket to Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve hosted by Ryan Seacrest.. She also walked away from Wheel of Fortune $68,250 richer ...
(Reuters) -Futures linked to Wall Street's main indexes took a pause on Thursday after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended the previous session on a positive note, while investors awaited some more ...