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From: ltf@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Lance Franklin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: EA "Scrabble" bugs?
Message-ID: <7883@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 19 Apr 89 03:24:11 GMT
References: <38731@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: ltf@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Lance Franklin)
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In article <38731@bbn.COM> denbeste@BBN.COM (Steven Den Beste) writes:
>We're not sure we believe all the words it has in its dictionary, either. It
>formed the word "WI", which we couldn't find either in my American Heritage
>dictionary, or in her 1978 edition Scrabble dictionary.

My paperback copy of the Webster's II New Riverside Dictionary lists WI as
an abbreviation for Wisconsin.  Sounds like they borrowed a spelling dictionary
from some text editor (or perhaps the one I've seen advertised by the Austin
Code Works ($60 for 234,932 words, from Webster's second dictionary).


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| Lance T Franklin        | | I never said that! It must be some kind of a  |
| ltf@killer.DALLAS.TX.US | | forgery...I gotta change that password again. |
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