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Re: my best scrabble game EVER
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Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:25:30 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
   My wife played “Justice”, and I put down “Rex” making “Justicer”. It hit on the triple word score, and since I made two words - it hit them both!

Challenge! Did you mean “justiciar”?

justicer

Jus”ti*cer, n. One who administers justice; a judge. Obs. `Some upright justicer.‘’ --Shak

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=justicer

Looks like it’s a word.

Jason Spears | BrickCentral | MichLUG



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  Re: my best scrabble game EVER
 
(...) We looked it up, it's in the OED. altho OED has everything that is used.. soo -lah (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
  Re: my best scrabble game EVER
 
(...) I dunno if I trust that source - it notes it got it from Webster's, and neither my actual Webster's with pages nor Webster's own on-line dictionary have a listing for justicer (also not that no plural is listed, which is for justiciars). And (...) (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)

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  Re: my best scrabble game EVER
 
(...) Challenge! Did you mean "justiciar"? -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 26-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)

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