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Collins Scrabble Words (CSW, formerly SOWPODS) is the word list used in English-language tournament Scrabble in most countries except the US, Thailand and Canada, [1] although Scrabble tournaments in the US and Canada are also organized with divisions that use Collins Scrabble Words as their lexicon, some under the auspices of organizations such as the Collins Coalition.
Its pronunciation is the same as that of the digraph rz , except that rz (unlike ż ) also undergoes devoicing when preceded by a voiceless obstruent. The difference in spelling comes from their historical pronunciations: ż originates from a palatalized /ɡ/ or /z/ , while rz evolved from a palatalized r .
Games manufacturers Selchow and Righter, the owners of Scrabble at the time, approached Merriam-Webster Inc. to assist with the compilation of an official Scrabble dictionary. They proposed that words should be included in the new dictionary if they appeared in the five in-print collegiate dictionaries, namely The Random House College ...
Using a D tile and a Z tile to make DZ or putting together D, Z and S or D and ZS to make DZS is not allowed, meaning words with these two letters are simply not playable. Using a blank (as Y ) in front of G , L , N or T to make GY , LY , NY or TY is also not allowed.
Ź (minuscule: ź) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from Z with the addition of an acute accent. The letter appears in Polish , Montenegrin , Lower Sorbian , Upper Sorbian , Emiliano-Romagnolo , Wymysorys and Brahui , as well as in the Belarusian Latin alphabet , Ukrainian Latin alphabet and romanized Pashto .
N: n: en /n̪/ not before /t͡ʂ d͡ʐ/; can be before /k ɡ/. For ni see Digraphs: Ń: ń: eń /ɲ̟/ canyon (alveolo-palatal) Can be in syllable coda: O: o: o /ɔ/ (for accents without the cot-caught merger) long between palatal or palatalized consonants Ó: ó: ó, o z kreską, o kreskowane or u zamknięte /u/ boot between palatal or ...
The word source currently in use for international play, known as Collins Scrabble Words or CSW (formerly Official Scrabble Words or OSW) is not derived from a single dictionary, but combines three components: Collins (7th edition, 2005), Chambers (1998 edition) and TWL, the current Northern American wordlist.
The z in the Spanish word chorizo is sometimes realized as / t s / by English speakers, reflecting more closely the pronunciation of the double letter zz in Italian and Italian loanwords in English. This is not the pronunciation of present-day Spanish, however. Rather, the z in chorizo represents or (depending on dialect) in Spanish.