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Emails to the EditorE M A I L S T O T H E E D I T O RShould you wish to comment on any of the Newsletter articles—or make suggestions or corrections—please email Cornelia Guest at CorneliaSGuest@gmail.com. Snail mail is also welcome at 6ABarry Avenue, Ridgefield, CT 06877. Emails chosen for publication may be edited at the editor’sdiscretion._______________________________________________________________________________To the Editor:I recently read your newsletter and wonder what your system is for keeping track of home states. Ialso wonder if you could extend your list and publish the top ten in every state. Your newsletter isexcellent and I can always pass something on to friends even if they don't play.Thank you.Joel LipmanThanks so much for your email. I use the home states listed at cross-tables.com; however, playersoften move from one state to another during the course of a year, so there may be someinaccuracies.I would love to list the top ten players in each state, and had considered adding a link under eachstate until I got overwhelmed with holiday madness. The good news is that you can easily find therankings of players by state or province at cross-tables.com.Go to cross-tables.com and click “FIND” at the top and then “Top Players by State.” Pick a state orprovince, and you’ll find all the players listed by rank, both active and inactive.Thanks, too, for your nice comments about The Last Word. I appreciate your support!Cornelia Guest_______________________________________________________________________________CORRECTION: In last month’s coverage of the top U.S. Youth Players, weincorrectly reported that Bradley Robbins had the second highest rating gainin 2009 (464 to Max Karten’s 547). We have since been informed thatPaolo Federico-Omurchu actually holds that honor, as his rating went up468 points last year, from 541 to 1009. Paolo was also the coach of the 8thplace team at last year’s National School SCRABBLE® Championship(Glenfield Team 2: Rachel Keller and Conor McGeehan), making him theyoungest coach in NSSC history.6
E M A I L S T O T H E E D I T O RDear Ms. Guest,In last month’s Word Trivia Quiz, it states that "All words are found in OSPD4/TWL2."I have recently created a word finder Web site (http://www.lexifind.com ) that uses TWL06 andSOWPODS. I had thought that these were the most recent versions for North American andinternational English play, respectively, and the only versions supported for official tournaments, andtherefore thought that I should support only those versions.But I have found numerous sites, including your own, that are still referring to versions of OSPD(which has been merged with the OSW list into SOWPODS), and so I am wondering what the valueof these earlier versions is, and whether I should support them on my Web site. It may be thatthese sites simply have not yet been updated, but then again, maybe these older lists are still inuse. I am not a professional Scrabble player (just a home player for many years) but my site isintended to serve players at all levels, and so it is important for me to understand this topic.Using TWL06 and my Web site, I obtained quite different answers than those given for two of thequestions in the above trivia quiz. Specifically,Question 2: In addition to DREAMT, REDREAMT and UNDREAMT, I also found DAYDREAMT andOUTDREAMT.Question 3: In addition to FACETIOUS, ARSENIOUS and ABSTEMIOUS, I also foundFACETIOUSLY, ABSTENTIOUS and ABSTEMIOUSLY. (In SOWPODS, we also haveHALFSERIOUSLY, PARECIOUS and CAESIOUS.)The answer to question 5, by the way, is still the same for TWL06.I am genuinely in the dark about the continuing relevance and uses of the earlier OSPD lists vs. themore current TWL06 list. I'm mainly interested in knowing whether there is a significantgroup of people who would prefer to use those older lists rather than SOWPODS or TWL06. Canyou point me to authoritative information on the nature and uses of the various lists? Also, it wouldbe great to know where files holding these earlier lists reside. There are some lists at http://www.isc.ro/en/commands/lists.html, but none of the OSPD variants are included there.Thanks in advance,Carl Gunther|Thank you for your email. I'll pass your comments along to the author of the quiz. My belief is thatthe reason some of those longer words aren't included in the quiz answers is that they are too longto be in the OSPD4 or OWL2. But I'll check! (I also have corrected the copy to read OWL2.)In regard to your comments about the OSPD4 and its relevance to tournament SCRABBLE® today,the OSPD4 is the official word source in the U.S. for School SCRABBLE®, a team variation that istaught to approximately a million schoolchildren nationwide and championed by the Hasbro- 7
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