I like this story.  According to the UK Dailymail, archaic words like smoyle (old English for smile) are accepted in Facebook scrabble and hardcore Scrabbleista’s are snuffy that such slumgums are allowed.  I didn’t even know Facebook had scrabble, but now I want to install it.  Elain Higgleton, who oversees the Official Scrabble Dictionary is not vexed (16 points) by the rumpus.  However, I began to investgate high-point-value Scrabble words and found some fun ones.

• xerotic — heheh, not what you think.  Prone to hardness, associated with aging skin. 16 points.
• abaka – related to the banana plant.  11 points.
• coccyx – tailbone.  22 points.
• joypop- to use habit-forming drugs occasionally without becoming addicted.  20 points.
• hutzpahs – variant spelling of chutzpahs.  25 points.
• kavakava – an herb used to treat anxiety.  22 points.
• zyzzyva – a genus of a tropical beetle, also it’s usually the last word in dictionary’s, so it’s becoming a common shorthand for “the last word”.  43 points.

On that note, zyzzyva.

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