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Scrabble dispute

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Austenlove · 01/08/2018 00:04

Sister and her husband have come back home after staying another night at their wedding venue.
Decided to do a nice meal for them followed by some games to continue theto celebrations. First game of the evening was Scrabble.
Husband wanted to put 'Rewelds'. It was not in the online OED so said he couldn't have it. He said he didn't want to play anymore and went upstairs, we carried on playing and I tried to keep a positive atmosphere but I feel like he spoiled a nice night.
After the game ended, I went upstairs and told him to stop being ridiculous and to come down. He wanted an apology from ME.
Is he a complete twat?

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TheMobileSiteMadeMeSignup · 01/08/2018 00:07

We use a combination of OED and wiktionary. It's Scrabble, Google the word. Bit U for him to go off in a huff though.

Destinysdaughter · 01/08/2018 00:10

That’s ridiculous! If it’s bit in the official dictionary it’s not a word. Is he normally that childish? Maybe set some firm ground rules about words before you play next time? Don’t apologise, he’s in the wrong.

Destinysdaughter · 01/08/2018 00:10
  • meant to say not, not ‘bit’!
AdaColeman · 01/08/2018 00:11

Is he 10 years old?
You have to abide by the chosen agreed dictionary, no ifs or buts!

KlutzyDraconequus · 01/08/2018 00:12

I'm sure there's a book on Amazon called,
"So you married a 12 year old"

If there isn't, there should be, you have the experience OP.. go write it.

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Austenlove · 01/08/2018 00:14

I definitely will not be apologising. He always just sticks prefixes and suffixes on anything he possibly can and then sulks if they aren't in the OED. But to leave the game when we had guests! We go on holiday soon, why do people behave like this? 😢 It is unreasonable that I want to beat him with the Scrabble board? 😂

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KlutzyDraconequus · 01/08/2018 00:17

To be fair, he is right, is a word..

scrabble.hasbro.com/en-us/tools#dictionary

Look it up for yourself in the official Scrabble dictionary.

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Austenlove · 01/08/2018 00:18

It wasn't that long ago that his sibling walked out of a restaurant for a family meal as his starter didn't come as ordered... (This was a special family occasion) Please God do not let this prefix issue be a sign of what is to come 😑

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Austenlove · 01/08/2018 00:19

It is out there but we were using the OED and it wasn't in there, that was the agreed method...

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easyandy101 · 01/08/2018 00:23

We say if it appears in a major comprehensive dictionary then you score

But...

Going off in a strop is cringe

LTB

itsBritneyBeach · 01/08/2018 00:24

Shove all the tiles up his bum! What an immature twatGrin

I feel like a hypocrite writing that as I am banned from playing monopoly in 3 different households.

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Austenlove · 01/08/2018 00:26

Not really quite sure that I'll leave him over the Scrabble drama but would like to pelt him to death with the Scrabble letters.
I am also really competitive but if you agree on OED then OED it is!

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4GreenApples · 01/08/2018 00:28

If the OED was agreed as the official dictionary at the start of the game, then he’s BU to try and insist on words not in the OED.

He’s also U for storming off. Very childish.

2018SoFarSoGreat · 01/08/2018 00:30

What an ass. Do what Britney says :)

says the woman who is infamous for 1) horribly beating former ML at Scrabble on first meeting and 2) throwing the board up in the air when the first game DH and I played went into the 4th hour and he was stalling. There is no 3)

TornFromTheInside · 01/08/2018 00:31

Far classier to concede. If later proven correct, you look humble too.
The way he behaved left him looking like a loser regardless of the validity of his word.

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Austenlove · 01/08/2018 00:32

I just don't understand why/how someone can behave like this? We're flying long haul in a couple of days (sighs) give me strength. I'm going to jab him in the ribs with my bony elbows the entire way there 😈 We can all be childish and inconsiderate. Please advise on other revenge tactics, I'm fuming. He is not getting away with this.

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Aintnothingbutaheartache · 01/08/2018 00:33

Haha🤣 I didn’t think it was legal to marry aged 6.
Word allowed or not I wouldn’t beat him over the head with the scrabble board............I’d shove it up his arse

PickAChew · 01/08/2018 00:37

My ex did this sort of thing. And worse. Chucking uno cards on the floor when he was losing against me and my 16yo sister!

Ztzy strong and tell him that, even if he was the rightest person ever in the world of absolute correctness. He behaved like a dick.

KlutzyDraconequus · 01/08/2018 00:39

Which site did you search?
The OED is £90 a year, was I that one? Or was it more like www. Oxford dictionaries.com

Not that it matters.. I'm just annoyed and bothered that I can't search the actual OED online without paying.

Paperdove87 · 01/08/2018 00:42

My DH once won with 'winglet', he's forever trying it on with prefixes and suffixes it's so annoying!

I have been very close to a strop myself a fair few times. There's something about board games which releases the dark side of the inner child!

Aintnothingbutaheartache · 01/08/2018 00:42

I’ve actually just decided that ‘reweld’ is an acceptable scrabble word.
Stomping off to your bed like an angry toddler though is not!

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Austenlove · 01/08/2018 00:45

Klutzy it was en.oxforddictionaries.com. I now feel that this may make my claim slightly less legitimate.
I hate prefixes and suffixes, it's lazy Scrabble tactics. I'm afraid that the inner child may not be that internal. I have married a child.

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Austenlove · 01/08/2018 00:46

And he was lying on the bed in his underwear (and socks eww).

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Aintnothingbutaheartache · 01/08/2018 00:48

Better than socks and no underwear 😳

KlutzyDraconequus · 01/08/2018 00:52

Ah well youre nadgered then OP. That website is run by he Oxford University Press and is not the OED or any form there of.
Rewelds is a perfectly cromulent word and a bottomscrappe is needed from both of you to each other.
Now kiss and rehangle and all's well after a good night gownfelling.. ;)