Genderqueer, manspreading, antifa, ze and other snowflake words added to Scrabble dictionary
SCRABBLE fans can spell out trendy new words coined by teenagers and the PC brigade.
Publisher Collins is adding 2,862 scoring phrases in its first update for four years.
The additions are plucked from a database based on trends and spikes in modern usage.
They include gender identity terms such as the neutral pronoun “ze” — which will gain players 11 points.
Transperson (13), transphobia (18) and genderqueer (22) will all earn points.
New phrases stemming from social habits include 18-pointer manspreading (men who sit with legs wide apart), and 17-scorer mansplaining (men telling a woman an idea in an oversimplistic way).
Words from the political sphere have also been added, including “Antifa” – a militant American anti-fascist movement – and “Remainer”.
Russian word kompromat (compromising material) also makes the list — possibly influenced by its use in hit BBC series Bodyguard.
The criminal offence of upskirting and the word incel (involuntary celibate) make the list.
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Anti-vaxxer (a person against vaccine jabs) and dox (to share someone’s private information online) are also there.
The official Scrabble Words list previously contained 276,000 entries.
Helen Newstead, language content consultant at Collins, said: “We select new words by looking for language trends and spikes in usage in the Collins Corpus, a six-billion-word database of the English language.
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“Gender identity is one of the areas that has seen an increase in the number of new words.”
The database covers terms used in Australia, Canada, South Africa, the USA and the UK.
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