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Scrabble Group Update

by Angela - 17:01 on 11 December 2015

SCRABBLE GROUP - DECEMBER
We wish everyone a healthy and happy Christmas-
Our most recent meeting was the 11th dec-after which we enjoyed a Christmas lunch at the Kirkwall hotel-
We continue to meet weekly-at alternate venues of Orphir and Randall-
and usually have three games going simultaneously  = 10 people -
However ,we can always accomodate some more!
New words( to us),the reader probably already knows them!
Gurry-dog fight
Touquet-knitted hat
Poilu-french soldier
Embace or Embase-degrade
Exo-excellent
Yoni-female genitalia
Nurl or Knurl-small ridge
Zein-protein in maize
Jak-as Jack
Vireo-bird
Luz-supposedly unbreakable bone
Oke-turkish weight
Brei-speak with an uvular "R"
Reh-salty crusty surface on soil
Lupulin-resinous powder made from hops
Vly-Low lying wet ground
Piceous -relating to pitch.
Just a few -but I can never seem to use them ,once learned!
Angela

 


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