# Is anyone participating in the pick a new word to include in the official Scrabble dictionary? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 14, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-participating-in-the-pick-a-new-word-to-include-in-the-official-scrabble-dictionary/683712 "2014-03-14T19:49:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-participating-in-the-pick-a-new-word-to-include-in-the-official-scrabble-dictionary/683712/1 "2014-03-14T19:49:20Z")
[http://www.amny.com/lifestyle/now-s-your-chance-to-pick-a-new-scrabble-word-1.7358741](http://www.amny.com/lifestyle/now-s-your-chance-to-pick-a-new-scrabble-word-1.7358741) ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-participating-in-the-pick-a-new-word-to-include-in-the-official-scrabble-dictionary/683712/2 "2014-03-15T00:39:20Z")
> [@DummyGladHands](#): > > [http://www.amny.com/lifestyle/now-s-your-chance-to-pick-a-new-scrabble-word-1.7358741](http://www.amny.com/lifestyle/now-s-your-chance-to-pick-a-new-scrabble-word-1.7358741) If I could think of a perfectly cromulent word I wouuld. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-participating-in-the-pick-a-new-word-to-include-in-the-official-scrabble-dictionary/683712/3 "2014-03-15T16:14:52Z")
I’m rooting for EW as the most useful. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-participating-in-the-pick-a-new-word-to-include-in-the-official-scrabble-dictionary/683712/4 "2014-03-15T16:46:49Z")
Oh, I think JQXZ is a wonderful word, don’t you? It means “to cheat at Scrabble”. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-participating-in-the-pick-a-new-word-to-include-in-the-official-scrabble-dictionary/683712/5 "2014-03-15T17:50:54Z")
All together now: KWYJIBO (kwij’-ee-boh) n. 1. A big, dumb, balding North American ape with no chin and a short temper. 2. A nonexistent word used in a board game (e.g. Scrabble). Is there a vote to remove a word? Whose bright idea was it to think “zas” is a plural of “za”? (There’s a difference between “pizza” and “a pizza”; I have never heard “za” to mean the latter. “Let’s get some za,” I have heard, but never, “Let’s get a za” (or “a couple of zas”). ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2014, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-participating-in-the-pick-a-new-word-to-include-in-the-official-scrabble-dictionary/683712/6 "2014-03-18T01:30:42Z")
I’ve always been quite fond of zzxjoanw but I’m not sure there are enough Zs… > **[Zzxjoanw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzxjoanw)** > > Zzxjoanw (ostensibly pronounced /ʃɔː/ SHAW) is a fictitious entry in an encyclopedia which fooled logologists for many years. It referred to a purported Māori word meaning "drum", "fife", or "conclusion". > In 1903, author Rupert Hughes published The Musical Guide, an encyclopedia of classical music. Among its many sections was a "pronouncing and defining dictionary of terms, instruments, etc." The dictionary, 252 pages in all, explained the meaning and gave the pronunciation of German, Italian,...