Nicolai Rosen on Wed, 26 Jul 2000 02:02:43 -0400 (EDT) |
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Walt Mankowski wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:09:05PM -0400, Adam Turoff wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:06:17PM -0400, abigail@foad.org wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 09:28:40PM -0400, Sollenberger, Gandalf wrote: > > > > >> Trick question. There is no `z' in `scrabble'. > > > > > > > > Actually, there is one 'z' in scrabble. It's worth 10 points. > > > > > > Duh! There are 2 z's in Scrabble, each worth 4 points. > > > > > > (Or are they referring to a non-Dutch version of Scrabble?) > > > > There are no 'z' characters in the Hebrew version, but there are more > > than two zayin's. I forget the point value though. > > Polish scrabble has *seven* z's -- 5 regular z's (1 point each), one z > with an acute accent (7 points) and one with a dot over it (5 points). That's nothing, the pig latin version may have the regular 1 'z', but about a million 'a's and 'y's. Nicolai Rosen, nick@netaxs.com http://www.netaxs.com/~nick/ **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org**
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