An unusual Scrabble game

[watervole]

This is one of my current Scrabble games. I've never seen a board quite like it before!

Comments

[nwhyte]

Some of those words I don't really believe!

I know of Moy as a place in Northern Ireland, but what else is it?

And "zos"? "gon"?

And can "qi" have a plural?

[watervole]

moy - Shakespearean word for a coin or a measure

zos - a zo or zho is a cross between a yak and a cow

yes, qi can have a plural. I guess if you have several individuals, then you have several life forces.

my dictionary defines 'gon' as a geometrical grade (which tells me nothing), but another one gives it as Chaucerian English - a past tense of 'go'.

[reapermum]

The OED only has "-gon" as a suffix, as in hexagon.

[watervole]

Bet that's not the full OED...

[reapermum]

Oh yes it was. I find logging in through the Warwickshire library site easier than trying not to drop the Shorter Oxford getting it off the shelf. Chambers I can lift and that had the geometrical grade.

gomphosis
gomuti
-gon, suffix
gonad
gonadotrophic, -tropic, a.

That is the list of entries at that point.

[watervole]

The thing is, that I have no idea at all what is meant by a geometrical grade. Unless it's some reference to polygons.

And here was me thinking the OED had everything!

[reapermum]

I don't know if it's connected but there are 100 grades to a right angle. I think it was an early attempt to metricate the circle.

[reapermum]

Wiki has this saying a gon is a grade is a grad is 1/400 of a circle. Or as Chambers has it 1/100 of a right angle.

[watervole]

Ah! You live and learn. I'd only ever heard it called a gradian.

[qatsi]

Or dzo (at least, according to the paper version of Chambers) - though TWL doesn't have any of these!