The 2005 Scrabble Championships have been completed, Stefan Fatsis of NPR and the Wall Street Journal has been covering the story at an online journal all week. The new champion is David Wiegand. However, the most incredible news to come out of the tournament is the report of the play of a 14-letter word: REmATERIALIZED. (In Scrabble notation a lower-case word indicates that letter was in the board prior to the play.) In addition, Stefan's online column is full of sesquipedalian gems:
FRENA, PEPO, KRAAL, ADUNC, JUCOS, PISO, ZORIS, WATERZOOI and ATRESIA.Logophiles myself love these kinds of obscure words which are possible in Scrabble; it's about the joy of discovery and an acknowledgement of the vastness (and peculiarity) of the English language.
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