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Collins Tournament and Club Word List

The Collins Tournament and Club Word List is now available in the UK, and will be shortly elsewhere in the world.

The Collins Tournament and Club Word List is available from Tilefish - visit www.tilefish.co.uk or ring 0800 043 0059 (or +44 115 841 5179 from outside the UK), priced at 6 UKP & p&p until the end of June.

The ABSP's Collins Initiation Kit, a 44-page guide to the most useful new words and their definitions, plus the full list of deletions, is also available from Tilefish priced 1.50 UKP while stocks last (p& p is 75p within UK or £1.50 worldwide). Different countries are switching to the Collins wordlist on different dates - for example, the UK switched on 15 May 2007. Other countries adopting the Collins wordlist are following suit shortly.

Adjudication Software

CSWcheck is a program designed for electronic adjudication of challenges for Scrabble. It has been officially tested and approved by the ABSP and Collins, and is a suitable complement to the Collins Tournament and Club Word List 2007.

The program runs under Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP. It may run on earlier versions, but has not yet been tested on those systems. Versions for Mac OS X and Linux are available on request via the ABSP website.

It is available from the ABSP website www.absp.org.uk

METERSTICK and METERSTICKS

These two words were inadvertently omitted from the printed version of Collins Tournament and Club Word List, even though they had previously been allowed in play, and are still valid in countries using the North American wordlist Official Tournament and Club Word List.

 

To remedy this oversight, the WESPA Dictionary Committee has confirmed that these two words ARE valid for games based on the new Collins wordlist. National associations should ensure that this decision is cascaded down to clubs and groups in the appropriate geographical areas.

 

METERSTICK and METERSTICKS have been added to the adjudication software.

 

To repeat: METERSTICK and METERSTICKS are valid for play, even though they do not appear in Collins Tournament and Club Word List.

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