Is Qi Really a Word?

I am loathe to talk about Facebook again, but I have to give props to my favourite new application there – Scrabulous. If you’re like me, just seeing this name has you singing Fergie’s song “Glamorous” but with cool Scrabble-themed lyrics! "Its the Scrabulous! The Wordy! Wordy! It's the Scrabulous!"

Just me? Really? Ok, let’s just pretend we never talked about this…

The application lets you play a game of Scrabble with other cool Facebook friends and comes complete with dictionary, list of “legal” two-letter words, and will soon even allow you to play in different languages. I often play with one or two friends who, as you can imagine, enjoy playing against me since I am well known for not having a bibliophilic vocabulary, or a ten-year-old’s ability to spell.

Despite these deficiencies, I have learned several tricks which have allowed me to appear not completely without brains. The easiest way to rack up points is the use those coloured squares to earn you double and triple points on your word. Since that isn’t always possible, your next best tool is the list of two-letter words that, as one person noted, seem to only exist for the purpose of Scrabble. Using this wonderful list, I have managed to earn as many as 20 points putting down only one letter.

All of this is nice, but for the sake of honesty, I should admit to something: just because I spend twenty minutes finding the perfect word online doesn’t mean that my non-cyber game has become any better. Something tells me that in real life, people will take umbrage with me trying dozens of words to see where they will best fit – only to discover that the letters I’ve been playing with don’t even spell a real word.

Finally, since you all mocked my Scrabulous lifestyle, I’m going to leave you with these words of wisdom - most of which are even spelled correctly.

If you ain't got no good words take your dumb ass home!

If you ain't got no good words take your dumb ass home!
S-C-R-A-B-U-L-O-U-S, yeah S-C-R-A-B-U-L-O-U-S

I got vocab up to here
I've got cool words in my ear
Spelling me these crazy terms
I don't know what they mean!
I've got letters in the bank
And I'd really like to thank
All my teachers, I'd like to thank
Thank you really though
Cause I remember yesterday
When I misspelled the word daze
And I rocked out the word jird, that’d be sixty points
Damn, It's been a long road
And the dictionary’s cold
I'm glad my daddy told me so, he let his daughter know.

If you ain't got no good words take your dumb ass home!
If you ain't got no good words take your dumb ass home!
S-C-R-A-B-U-L-O-U-S, yeah S-C-R-A-B-U-L-O-U-S