I woke yesterday morning to an e-mail from an editor at a London newspaper asking whether, as the author of a book about the world of competitive Scrabble, I had any thoughts on the news that "the ...

In 2 studies, 2-year-old children learned a novel word modeled as a proper noun (e. g., "This is Zav") for an animate stuffed toy. Children who learned the word for a familiar object (i. e., one for ...

Nouns are words that name people, places or things. For example, ‘man’ and ‘kitchen’ are nouns. One word is naming a person and the other is naming a place. ‘Cake’ is another example. Frank is baking ...

For decades family arguments have raged furiously over whether words like Quzhou (a city in southern China, 27 points) and Zuma (as in the South African president, 15 points) are eligible. At least to ...

Mattel said the use of names will add a "new dimension" to Scrabble The rules of word game Scrabble are being changed for the first time in its history to allow the use of proper nouns, games company ...

Russ in New Jersey had a question about hyphens: In “northwestern California landmark” should “northwestern California” be hyphenated? “I’m not sure if it’s simply a matter of preference or if the ...

Makers of the popular word game Scrabble have made a controversialdecision – to allow the use of proper nouns for the first time in theboard game's history. Makers of the popular word game Scrabble ...