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chosen for reference. (Nuttall's is fairly good, though some 
very well-known words are omitted. The Oxford Pocket 
Dictionary is useless; it is for morons, illiterates, wallowers in 
"Basic English" -and [I suppose I Oxonians. No proper 
names, however well-known, unless used as common: e.g. 
Bobby, a flatfoot, 
a beetlecrusher , a harness bull; or 
Xantippe, a shrew, a lady. X-rays is given in the plural only: 
ditto "Roentgen-rays," and they give "Roentgenogram." "You 
never can tell!" Participles, plurals and the like are not 
"words" unless printed as such in big black type. E.g. 
Nuttall's "Juttingly" is a word; "jutting" is not, being in 
smaller type. "Soaking" is in small type, but also in big type 
as a noun; so it is a word.) 
3. The Dictionary is the sole and final arbiter. This 
produces blasphemy, but averts assassination. 
4. The first player starts with the letter A. The second 
may put any letter he chooses either before or after that A. 
The other continues as he will, and can. 
S. The player who cannot add a letter without completing 
a "word" loses. 
6. A player whose tum it is must either add his letter 
within a reasonable (This is a matter of good feeling, courtesy 
and consideration) 
time, may say "I challenge" or, 
alternatively, "That is a 'word'." The other must then give 
the "word" that he intends, or deny that it is a "word" 
within the meaning of the Art, as the case may be. The 
Dictionary decides the winner. The chal1enged player may 
give one word only, and that in the form which is printed in 
the Dictionary; e.g. if he were chal1enged at BRUSS, and 
answered 
BRUSSELS, 
he would 
lose; 
if 
BRUSSELS-SPROUTS, he would win. Hyphens need not be 
given. CASHMERE is a "word"; it is a kind of shawl, etc; so 
is CHARLEY, a night-watchman . Don't argue: the Dictionary 
decides. 
7. This game calls not only for an extensive vocabulary 
but for courage, foresight, judgment, resource, subtlety and