Scrabble
Lynn Barber visits the World Championships in Scrabble, and finds out some amazing facts:
I manage to crash the players’ lunch, but it only confirms what Mark and others have told me – that many of them don’t speak English. This is particularly true of the large Thai contingent – Thailand teaches Scrabble as part of the school curriculum and holds huge national championships in shopping malls and football stadia throughout the country, but the result seems to be brilliant Scrabble players who know all 160,000 words in SOWPODS but can’t string a sentence together.
[x]#1588 fan zondag 11 december 2005 @ 13:27:04
