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Some of the new Scrabble words

Here are some of the latest additions to the Scrabble canon. I look forward to finding and learning all the 3,000 additions. You can download a list of the most useful three to eight letter new Scrabble words for 2011 here . Innit? You can read a comprehensive introduction to the new list at the WESPA site . However you can't actually use them until January 2012. No harm in learning a few though. ACIDFREAK ALOO: (Hindi) a potato ALU: (Hindi) a potato ARTHOUSE: a style of film AUTOSAVE: a facility which automatically saves newly-recorded data BARCODE BIMBETTE BREDREN: brother CHAVETTE CLIT: clitoris DYKON: a celebrity, often a woman, who is much admired by lesbians FACEBOOK FANSITE FIQH: Islamic jurisprudence, an expansion of the Sharia Islamic law GAK: cocaine GOBI: cauliflower GREBO: a devotee of heavy metal or grunge music, with unkempt hair and clothes GRRL and GRRRL: as in RIOT GRRL, a young woman who plays or enjoys an aggressively feminist style of punk...