As English burns, Scrabble plays the fiddle adding 300 words like Bitcoin, botnet and emoji

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By Kate ClarkSep 24, 2018, 8:49 pm402 pts
Attention, Scrabble enthusiasts! A whopping 300 new words have been added to Merriam-Webster’s Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, including a few that are sure to satisfy millennials and aggravate everyone else: Bitcoin, emoji and botnet. Merriam-Webster likes to keep up with the hip, younger crowd and…

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