The Scrabble Dictionary should be burned in my opinion

At our Scrabble group one person has a Scrabble dictionary and asks her table if they are happy to use it. There is a separate list of two letter words in circulation, and we decide in advance whether to allow it or not.
When I play online, the computer uses words I have never heard of. It is really annoying, so I have tried inventing words ,to see if they are accepted. They often are.

I had to stop playing scrabble with my two younger daughters because they kept using words they had no idea the meaning of but they were almost always in this dictionary. I was playing with only "real" words out of my head. It wasn't enjoyable. Maybe I'm just a sore loser

We use the dictionary as the Bible too - we think it's the only fair way to make sure we agree on what is acceptable.

I often come up with historical words that are meaningless now and DH has never heard of them, but they are often in the dictionary. DH knows words I don't know but so long as they are in the dictionary I have to accept them.

Doing a Google search we found it described as a "dialect" word which some people use instead of "ate". My daughter and I don't even consider it dialect. It's mispronunciation.

It's not dialect and it is the correct pronunciation in Received English, but it is spelt ate.

Does anyone in the UK pronounce ate as in eight? That's American English. Perhaps younger people do.

The Scrabble dictionary is wrong and has spelt it wrongly.

Allira

^Doing a Google search we found it described as a "dialect" word which some people use instead of "ate". My daughter and I don't even consider it dialect. It's mispronunciation.^

It's not dialect and it is the correct pronunciation in Received English, but it is spelt ate.

Does anyone in the UK pronounce ate as in eight? That's American English. Perhaps younger people do.

The Scrabble dictionary is wrong and has spelt it wrongly.

I pronounce it either way.

I don't care if one way is dialect, it's still spelled 'ate'.

Who compiles the Scrabble Dictionary?

I have not enjoyed scrabble since the new dictionary was introduced

We have always used Chambers as our Bible.

I also pronounce ate as eight.

I found that when playing online Cabbie21 I'm often surprised which words are accepted.

Usually I pronounce ate as et but realised that when I used to read The Hungry Caterpillar to my children and grandchildren I pronounced it eight. 🥴

Et is dialect - used in Derbyshire and possible Lancashire as well. So unless you are prepared to ban all dialect words, I think in fairness you need to accept it.

What do you do with words like bairn, wean, manky?

Ate is pronounce as eight I eight a plate of chips
I don’t say I et a plate of chips

And I m not American and don’t use American dialect

Oh dear, I am now unsure whether I pronounce ‘ate’ as ‘et’ or ‘eight’!

‘Et’ I have decided!

Every combination of letters is in that dictionary. Even foreign ones.
If you are playing in English then wine is correct, not vin! IMO

Elrel but do you spell et as et or ate when you are writing it?

Even when I set online Scrabble to UK English, it still accepts American spellings eg flavor for flavour. Annoying.

Our version of scrabble includes double score for a rude word.
And when we were on holiday in France it was double for a afrench word ... and triple for a rude French word ... a feat that I once achieved!

Cultured lot in our family!

I play online scrabble and there are some very strange words accepted, so I just play around with the letters I have to see if I can come up with a combo that will be accepted online. As a member said upthread sometimes it works.

Both xi and xu are accepted words and high scorers.

I have always pronounced ate as eight. Think it's the usual way in Scotland, as I've only ever heard English people (and only some of them) pronounce it as ett.