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From the 7-letter list, I see:ASSUMER, DEICERS, FATLESS, HARDIES, JOSTLER, LUNIEST, MATINGS,NERDISH, REPLEAD, SALTINE, SUNKED, STRIDER, TEARILY, VERITAS.Hmm! Some pretty far-out words, there! Perhaps the 8's are more way-put.From the 8-letter list, I see:ASSIGNER, DETAILER, ENLISTEE, ENUSTER, FRUGGING, GANDERED, INSISTER,UTTERER, SENORITA, STINGRAY, TOMMYROT, TOUGHING, UNRESTED, UNSTONED.Heady stuff!Conversely, some of the words in OSW only are pretty weird! We all know there aremany examples of words occurring in the works of Shakespeare, Milton and Spenser.For example, DISMAYL, GIMMORS, LYNAGES, PHEAZAR, TOAZING and YGLAUNST. Icould go on.Of course, many of the OSPD-only words are no more than hyphenated words ortwo-word terms from Chambers spelled solidly - for example, ANTIROLL, ARCSINE,DOESKIN, PRESELL, REENUST and WATERDOG.But the real reason for promoting Sowpods play is nothing to do with admitting someadditional ordinary-looking words. It's to do with ensuring that English-languageplayers around the world - whether they're in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia,Malta, South Africa, Kenya, New Zealand, Singapore, wherever - are playing on alevel playing-field. That is, they're using the same stock of words. Which means thatplayers can move from one country to another, and find that the words they knowand use back home are just as valid away from home.Can you imagine how weird it would be if other games, like cricket, chess, bridge andso on, had different ways of playing in different countries?!Roll on the move to Sowpods, I say!Darryl Francis, Carshalton, SurreyMay I just add my opinions on the great SOWPODS debate? Unlike your reader from Hampshire,who seems to think that the SOWPODS proponents inhabit the top 20 places of the ratings table,my ranking is a lowly 118°\ Furthermore, without meaning to cause offence, I wouldurge people who have a view one way or the other not to enter frivolous ideas suchas 'adopting OSPD only' or to 'split the movement into ABSP (OSW) and APSP(Sowpods)' however humorous these Ideas may appear at the time.Phil Appleby's letter said most of the things I'd like to say so I won't go over old ground.However I have to admit that I do not understand the reluctance shown by some of yourreaders to Sowpods. I recently played In the Sowpods Division at Durham andenjoyed the experience albeit I finished gloriously and expectedly last. Although Iwas able to play some of the top players whom I haven't been able to play for a longtime, I was also surprised to see so few OSPD (only) words played. Most current'Sowpoders' are on a learning curve at present so the number of weird and wonderful'American' words played is actually quite low. Instead, those 'strange' words that

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