Even more HILARIOUS Scrabble phonies!

[@eighthcoda]

Am I the only one who thought Mack was going to play SeXFARM in that last example?

[@Mizai]

😂

[@mackmeller]

LOL

[@AlexDings]

TH is a very reasonable word, the definition being: the sound that my fellow Germans and me can't pronounce for the life of us 😅

[@DadgeCity]

Seems that a lot of English people can't pronounce it any more 😢

[@psymar]

​@@DadgeCityDepends on which th. The th in "the" I thought until age 20 was just an L sound as nobody corrected me!

[@samuelcheung4799]

@@psymarso you have been unknowingly using a French word!

[@Lembo101]

My linguistics professor explained this by saying some cultures just can't bring themselves to stick their tongues out between their teeth (what you have to do to say it right), as sticking out your tongue would be bad manners.

[@koura7883]

You can make the TH sound by itself by placing your tongue in between your teeth and blowing air out of your open mouth. The “TH” in “the” is pronounced the same way that you would say “duh,” but you place your tongue in between your teeth while you make the first sound in the word.

[@manaphylv100]

I played LOLICON a few times on ISC, and I honestly didn't know it wasn't a word because nobody ever challenged it. (FYI: LOLI isn't a word, either, but JAILBAIT is - I know because an opponent challenged it and failed...) I also played LYCORIS many times without knowing it wasn't accepted, until someone challenged it off, thinking I misspelled LICORICE. Why this isn't accepted when PRIMULA is, I have no idea... Oh, and RESPAWN isn't a word! Like, are you kidding me!?

[@Mizai]

rip

[@Ascension721]

lol i cant believe this

[@Columbine-en3qc]

What really bugs me is the fact that brrr is a word while grrr is not.

[@LegoGuy2048]

@@Columbine-en3qc but grr with 2 r's is valid and so is grrrl

[@ATrueZen]

Nothing like refreshing my feed and seeing a phony video 2 minutes ago. Keep putting out the great content!

[@mackmeller]

Thanks for watching!

[@psymar]

Instead of TREEHILL I might've tried THRILLEE (someone who has met the THRILLER)

[@jellomochas]

LACEWEED* on the NUTSUIT board

[@glowstonelovepad9294]

With SH as a word (and CH in the international dictionary), TH doesn't seem that implausible.

[@BrettMKW]

I'm proud of the fact I would have challenged some of these off! Obviously TH was just a brain fart by both players but disregarding that I actually know the JQXZ bingos, for some reason I found them more fun to learn than the high prob ones so I just went and did it. PESANQUA, SAXIFORM, and SEXTORCE would have come off the board. Maybe you were thinking of GASIFORM when you played SAXIFORM. That's the closest valid word I can think of.

[@etymonlegomenon931]

SAXIFRAGE

[@samakafrisco1759]

great nod to New Super Mario Bros. U from Josh

[@BSplitt]

You should do a video where you showcase instances when players *tried* to play a phony but accidentally played valid words 😂

[@andrewmilner-white9988]

Weirdly, One Tree Hill is also the name of a place in Auckland (NZ) though the tree has now gone! It's also the name of a U2 song named after that place.

[@mackmeller]

Ah, cool! I feel like I've heard the song but would never have known the origin of the name

[@johnwilder4789]

I would suspect Cesar was blending SESTERCE (valid) and *SEXTORTION (invalid). Merriam Webster recently added SEXTORTION to the dictionary and it's possible it will be included within the next Scrabble dictionary update

[@mackmeller]

Ah, perhaps! SEXTING was added in the last update so I wouldn't be surprised

[@Forensource]

TUNNELMEN seems plausible.

[@etymonlegomenon931]

SEXTORCE sounds like it could be Spanish 17 after ONCE DONCE TRECE CATORCE. SAXIFORM sounds like SAXIFRAGE

[@CyberchaoX]

Sixteen, not seventeen, but yes. I was absolutely thinking about how quatorze is a valid word, although that uses the z instead of the c.

[@kennynolan736]

SAXIFRAGE is a word, maybe that's what Mack was thinking of?

[@mackmeller]

Yeah probably a cross between that and many somewhat similar FORM words like GASIFORM

[@danielzitnik4247]

Question: sometimes they add words to the Scrabble dictionary. Do they ever take words out? And if so, are there any famous examples of a word being removed from the dictionary, played in a tournament game, and challenged off?

[@blackeyefly]

A few years ago they removed a number of words considered offensive such as racist/sexist/homophobic slurs. I'm not sure whether Scrabble tournaments use the new dictionary though

[@johnwilder4789]

Not a "famous example," but in a recent tournament my opponent played SQUAW and I challenged it off, knowing per the previous comment that this had recently been expurgated from the official wordlist. My opponent was shocked to see it come off the word, and ironically had used a blank for the W and coud have made SQUAD or SQUAT. Interestingly, it's possible you could still see SQUAW within valid plays since it's still playable within longer valid words such as SQUAWFISH, SQUAWBUSH, and SQUAWROOT (I'll give a shoutout to the etymologically unrelated SQUAWKING as well). The NASPA "Dictionary Committee" does occassionally decide to remove words outside of the expurgation mentioned above if they determine that they errored in including it in the first place and it lacks lexicographical evidence. For example, a few years ago they removed the inflections of SUETY -- SUETIER / SUETIEST -- for this reason, and I suspect there are multiple instances of tournament players challenging this off since. In the late 90s (maybe even into the early 2000s) "PH" used to be a playable Scrabble word (as in pH / acidity). I think the thinking was, "hey the first letter is lowercase, and there's some ambiguity over the status of the acronym, so I guess it's a word?" That got kicked from the Scrabble dictionary pretty early on.

[@mackmeller]

Aside from the words expurgated for being offensive, a famous example is DA. DA was good until I believe either 1998 or 2006 (a more longtime player can confirm here), when it was removed. Then it was added back in 2014, and is still good today!

[@GreaterJan]

JEW, GOY and other Jewish-related words were removed for having offensive definitions (not the proper noun "Jew", but the offensive verb "to jew (someone)")

[@almightyhydra]

Couple of interesting results if you google "saxiform" - it's an album title and a scientific term, apparently.

[@stevenwilmes2572]

Love the phony videos, such an interesting aspect of tournament scrabble play!

[@ritwikism]

What did you get confused with? Salpiform? Gasiform? Vasiform? Aciform? Arciform? I guess there's too many forms

[@limbolegs]

these are some one my favourite videos by you :)

[@Forensource]

Someone played FOGHAT against Robin P.

[@rumpelRAINS]

Hilarious video 😂

[@GreaterJan]

I love the phony series!

[@paperpopper1290]

sextorce reminds me of sextuors

[@Mizai]

why is "AA" even a thing

[@Grignard]

Blame the Hawaiians ;-)

[@meta04]

it's... a specific kind of lava, I think? it comes from a language where there are like one dozen letters instead of two dozen...

[@galoomba5559]

It comes from Hawaiian ʻaʻā, and then English removed the two ʻ consonants apparently.

[@theguywhopostsrandomvids]

Blame Hawaii, not the UK

[@manaphylv100]

I always thought AA referred to the battery size, and AI was just the acronym for "artificial intelligence."

[@Forensource]

TREELAWN eg