SCRABBLE: Can You Play Names? (ie. GLORIA)
If you know the Official Rules of Scrabble, then you know that proper nouns are not acceptable. With that being said, it is a little more complicated than that. You see, some words have more than a single meaning/definition. ‘Gloria’ is a common girl’s name; ‘gloria’ is a noun defined in the OWL2 as ‘a halo’.
Okay, but there really aren’t that many names that have a second meaning, right? How many do you think there are? 10? 35? 75? 150?
Would you believe that there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 650 words that are also names. Here are a few of them.
I have prepared the list in two forms. If you want the list online, JFTSOI is prepared to send it to you in a PDF format. If you’d prefer having a laminated list, printed on card stock, that is available too. To see the costs of my lists, CLICK HERE.
Some people will simply go for it and create the list on their own. Go for it.