# New Scrabble rules change to allow proper nouns (names)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-scrabble-rules-change-to-allow-proper-nouns-names/535210>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [April 6, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-scrabble-rules-change-to-allow-proper-nouns-names/535210 "2010-04-06T22:42:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-scrabble-rules-change-to-allow-proper-nouns-names/535210/21 "2010-04-07T23:05:45Z")

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Anyone remember the movie _Foul Play_ with Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn? While climbing around on a building ledge, she kept passing a couple of old ladies playing Dirty Scrabble. I think there was an argument over whether “motherfucker” was hyphenated.

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**Author:** ![palindromemordnilap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/db5fbb/32.png) [@palindromemordnilap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palindromemordnilap)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-scrabble-rules-change-to-allow-proper-nouns-names/535210/22 "2010-04-08T19:45:24Z")

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> [@phouka](#):
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> Anyone remember the movie _Foul Play_ with Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn? While climbing around on a building ledge, she kept passing a couple of old ladies playing Dirty Scrabble. I think there was an argument over whether “motherfucker” was hyphenated.

To play Dirty Scrabble with any degree of success, you’d need more than the one K provided in the regular game.

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**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-scrabble-rules-change-to-allow-proper-nouns-names/535210/23 "2010-04-08T19:53:19Z")

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That’s why we allow fungible spellings.

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**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-scrabble-rules-change-to-allow-proper-nouns-names/535210/24 "2010-04-11T04:01:25Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> I added a new word.
> 
> [spoiler]  
> **…R1  
> …E1  
> …P3  
> C[SIZE=“1”]3 O1 N1 F4 U1 S1 E1 D2[/SIZE]  
> …R1  
> …T1  
> …E1  
> …D2**
> 
> To get it moved to another forum, silly.[/spoiler]

:grumble: :grumble:  
\*\*  
BigT\*\* got also a Bingo for a total of 61 points..

🙂

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**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-scrabble-rules-change-to-allow-proper-nouns-names/535210/25 "2010-04-11T04:06:33Z")

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> [@GIGObuster](#):
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> :grumble: :grumble:  
> \*\*  
> BigT\*\* got also a Bingo for a total of 61 points..
> 
> 🙂

Ha! I stared at this post for about a minute trying to figure out what the hell a “detrcper” was.

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