So what word *do* we use?

[shereads]

I don't mind never saying being allowed to say "Squaw" again, as long as I can continue using it in Scrabble.

The Scrabble issue merits a thread of its own. Should a player refrain from using 'squaw' if the other players include one or more injuns and/or their womenfolk? In a tight game, sensitivity isn't worth much. Unless you have the tiles to complete it, in which case there would be no 'squaw' dilemma.

If only one of the players meets the definition of a squaw, is it fair for her to use the word to win, when she knows the other players refrained from using it out of political correctness?

Life is so damn complicated.

I like your hair, Dr. S. Puts in me mind of Albert Einstein's cousin Phil, who invented a new use for the light bulb and was arrested.

 

[Stella_Omega]

The Scrabble issue merits a thread of its own. Should a player refrain from using 'squaw' if the other players include one or more injuns and/or their womenfolk? In a tight game, sensitivity isn't worth much. Unless you have the tiles to complete it, in which case there would be no 'squaw' dilemma.

If only one of the players meets the definition of a squaw, is it fair for her to use the word to win, when she knows the other players refrained from using it out of political correctness?

Life is so damn complicated.

I like your hair, Dr. S. Puts in me mind of Albert Einstein's cousin Phil, who invented a new use for the light bulb and was arrested.

A marvelously constructed argument.
All's fair in love and Scrabble, says I!

 

[shereads]

An authorly question:

While we're on the topic of Scrabble, can you earn more points by spelling cummmmming with six m's instead of the usual four or five?

 

[Stella_Omega]

An authorly question:

While we're on the topic of Scrabble, can you earn more points by spelling cummmmming with six m's instead of the usual four or five?

No, that's cheating, WTF!

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

No, that's cheating, WTF!

Even if it's in the Dictionary that way? I thought that was the rule?

 

[Stella_Omega]

Even if it's in the Dictionary that way? I thought that was the rule?

well okay, but you have to write it in with a pen- pencil doesn't count. Anyway, that's what I was told...