SCRABBLE: Who Knew?
BARBIE’s last name is ‘Roberts’.
Charlie Roberts was our landlord when we lived on Northlawn.
Northlawn is my handle on ISC.
A handle is a grip attached to an object for using or moving the object and the name of a morning talk show host on 640AM radio.
There are still disputes as to who could claim credit for the invention of radio. In America, Tesla was by court decision the inventor of radio and, in England, Marconi was announced the inventor.
The word inventor has ‘zero’ anagrams but 125 sub-anagrams according to Zyzzyva.
Zyzzyva is the second from the last entry in the OWL2, just before zzz.
zzz is used as a symbol to suggest the sound of snoring.
Snoring is the vibration of respiratory structures and the resulting sound, due to obstructed air movement during breathing while sleeping.
A number of words that depicts sounds are included as legal words in the OWL2. That list includes, but not limited to, ‘wham,’ ‘splat,’ ‘kerplunk,’ ‘thud,’ ‘jeez,’ and ‘clunk’.
In mathematics, the concept of a “limit” is used to describe the value that a function or sequence “approaches” as the input or index approaches some value. In scrabble there are no limits to the way that I might attempt to spell a word. (Some have called me the ‘phoney king’)
Many of the top rated players in the history of competitive scrabble have been mathematicians or had mathematical aptitudes.
The letters in ‘aptitudes’ can be rearranged to make 11 different 7-Letter-Words: ‘dauties’, ‘spatted’, ‘updates’, ‘statued’, ‘patties’, ‘situate’, ‘upstate’, ‘spitted’, ‘dispute’, ‘puttied’, and ‘putties’.
11 and 7 are lucky, winning numbers when rolled while playing Craps.
Barbie has earned a ‘crap-load’ of money, considering that she is only a doll.
This week’s special at my store is a set of 10 Stem Bookmarks for only $20, including shipping. Even Barbie can’t compete with a deal like that. CLICK HERE