{"id":196078,"date":"2021-03-07T03:12:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T00:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/arses-on-the-line-brits-fear-for-scrabble-crackdown-on-offensive-words\/"},"modified":"2021-03-07T03:12:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T00:12:17","slug":"arses-on-the-line-brits-fear-for-scrabble-crackdown-on-offensive-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/arses-on-the-line-brits-fear-for-scrabble-crackdown-on-offensive-words\/","title":{"rendered":"#\u2018Arses\u2019 on the line? Brits fear for Scrabble crackdown on \u2018offensive\u2019 words"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#\u2018Arses\u2019 on the line? Brits fear for Scrabble crackdown on \u2018offensive\u2019 words<\/strong>”
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Toy giant Mattel plans to scrub the U.K. versions of Scrabble of hundreds of \u201coffensive\u201d words \u2014 leaving game<\/a>-loving Brits clutching their \u201cboobies\u201d for fear of losing their \u201carses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other prized words, such as \u201cgoolies,\u201d \u201cwrinklies,\u201d \u201cboffing,\u201d \u201cfarting\u201d and \u201cfatso,\u201d may also wind up on the wrong side of the official Scrabble lexicon, British aficionados of the little square tiles now worry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe woke brigade is ruining our game,\u201d two-time British Scrabble champ Craig Beevers griped to The Scottish Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel this will be the final nail in the coffin for a lot of competitive players,\u201d Beevers added.
Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble outside the U.S., isn\u2019t tipping its rack of letters just yet \u2014 but The Sun claims the game maker\u2019s in-progress list of forbidden words will run to 400, and reportedly be a worldwide push.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Scrabble \u2014 as in life \u2014 the words we choose matter,\u201d a Mattel exec told the outlet.
Brett Smitheram, a rep for the Association of British Scrabble Players, told The Post Saturday that words are indeed \u201cbeing compiled for deletion\u201d by Mattel.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not the Scrabble associations doing it \u2014 more that Mattel has decided it has to be done and are compiling the list themselves,\u201d said Smitheram, who is the 2016 World Scrabble Champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cScrabble associations are left with the choice of accepting the new list or really ceasing to be able to use the name \u201cScrabble\u201d at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mattel seems intent on removing words that might be seen as derogatory or rude, Smitheram said.<\/p>\n

But some alleged offenders may well be salvaged.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think that \u2018farting\u2019 or similar will be removed,\u201d Smitheram said.<\/p>\n

The list is still under discussion, he continued \u2014 but not by members of his association\u2019s \u201cDictionary Committee,\u201d which he said has resigned in protest from the effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision isn\u2019t being made by lexicographers,\u201d Smitheram scoffed. \u201cSo it\u2019s not likely to create a technically robust word list.\u201d<\/p>\n

The effort is reminiscent of a purge of \u201coffensive\u201d Scrabble words from the U.S. version of the game last year.<\/p>\n

That time, The North American Scrabble Players Association eliminated 236 words, including racial slurs and other bigoted terms from the official Scrabble word list used at tournaments, a culling made with the support of Hasbro, which owns the rights to the game in North America.<\/p>\n

Mattel reps did not immedia<\/a>tely respond to requests for comment.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#\u2018Arses\u2019 on the line? Brits fear for Scrabble crackdown on \u2018offensive\u2019 words” Toy giant Mattel plans to scrub the U.K. versions of Scrabble of hundreds of \u201coffensive\u201d words \u2014 leaving game-loving Brits clutching their \u201cboobies\u201d for fear of losing their \u201carses.\u201d Other prized words, such as \u201cgoolies,\u201d \u201cwrinklies,\u201d \u201cboffing,\u201d \u201cfarting\u201d and \u201cfatso,\u201d may also wind…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/scottish-scrabble.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[96516,39407,57694,67730,77296,78053,4966],"class_list":["post-196078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-6-21","tag-board-games","tag-hasbro","tag-mattel","tag-political-correctness","tag-scotland","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}