Complaint of the day

[ams16]

"Juco" meaning "Junior College" is a word in Scrabble. "Ok", meaning "Ok" isn't.

Comments

[yagagriswold]

May I suggest that you switch to a better dictionary?

[ams16]

We're using the scrabble official dictionary. It's stupid.

"Deejay" is a word, but DJ isn't.

[ffoeg]

If I had to defend it, I'd say that, strictly and pendantically speaking, "Ok" isn't a word. "OK" is an abbreviation, "Okay" is a word.

But I wouldn't actually defend it, given the choice.

[ams16]

In the OED, OK is a word, and "okay" isn't. OK is from "All Correct", though how they got the spelling so wrong, I don't know.

[ffoeg]

Well, right, the OED is all about usage, so of course they'll list almost anything that people use as a word. Scrabble and other American dictionaries are more prescriptivist.

So OK (or DJ) with the all-caps indicates that it's an abbreviation, which Scrabble explicitly rules out.

The origin I've read for OK uses intentionally uses a jokey mispelling ("Oll Klear!") but I'm not entirely convinced that that wasn't a play on an existing use of OK.

[ams16]

but "deejay" is also an abbreviation, as is "okay". And nobody uses "deejay" as a written word, do they?

[powerfrau]

PtttbbbbbbT or something like that to those who decide such things....Juco, looks like an acronym...