For centuries, khat, (pronounced COT), scientificly known as Catha Edulis, is known by over 40 different street names including, kat, qat, chat, gat, tohai, tschat, and mirraa. http://www.mninter.net/~publish/khat.htm
(bolding mine)
ET: a past tense of EAT
ER: interj-used to express hesitation
KA: n pl. -S the spiritual self of a human being in Egyptial religion
XI: n pl. -S a Greek letter
And the definition I have for teother word:
QAT: n pl. -S Variation of KAT, an evergreed shrub
Get the OSPD (Official Scrabb;e Players Dictionary) for the scoop on what words are good.
It is not the book used in official Scrabble tourneys, however, because M-W bowed to pressure from some groups to eliminate “bad” words from it’s third edition - racial slurs and vulgar phrases like KIKE and FUCK, respectively.
As such, for club and tournament directors, they have an “Official Word List” which tournament and club players use as the official source.
For the Hasbro E-Mail CD-ROM game I play (and the non-e-mail Scrabble game you can buy from Hasbro), the built-in dictionary is exactly what you get in the third edition, which is available in any of your local bookstores.
Oh, an UM is perfectly acceptable!
I do have the complete word list in an ASCII text file if anyone cares… I shan’t reprint it here though!
I lost. HM is evidently an interjection, showing thoughtful consideration. Alternatively spelled : HMM.
I hate that book! Ever since we started using it, just about any combination of vowels and consonants can be thrown on the board. Unless, of course, it is I who has thrown down the QAT. In this case, a smirking “Look it up” is very appropriate.