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Ten New Slang Terms Added to Scrabble's Official List of Words (2011)
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Here are just some of the 3,000 new words added to the Collins Official Scrabble Words book, compiled by staff in Glasgow:
| 1. | INNIT: Short for "isn't it?" as in "This is great, innit?". Also used to replace any negative tag question, as in: "You like this song, innit?" Scrabble score: 5 |
| 2. | DARKNET (n): The software and servers used to distribute music, videos and other copyrighted material illegally. Scrabble score: 12 |
| 3. | QIN (n): A Chinese zither, with strings stretched across a flat box. Scrabble score: 12 |
| 4. | WAGYU: From the Japanese, a breed of beef cattle. Scrabble score: 12 |
| 5. | THANG (n): Slang word for thing, as in "give me that thang". Scrabble score: 9 |
| 6. | GRRL (n): A woman with attitude. Riot Grrl was an feminist punk movement in the 1990s. Scrabble score: 5 |
| 7. | WEBZINE (noun): A magazine published on the internet. Scrabble score: 21 |
| 8. | BLOOK (n): An online book that is published via a blog (a kind of online diary) Scrabble score: 11 |
| 9. | BLINGY (adj): From the word bling, meaning flashy, ostentatious jewellery. Could be used to mean shiny or bright. Scrabble score: 12 |
| 10. | FIQH (n): An expansion of Islamic sharia law, based directly on the Koran and Sunnah. Scrabble score: 19 |
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