The Scrabble Dictionary should be burned in my opinion

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?

‘Et’ I have decided!

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

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

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?

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. 🥴

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

I also pronounce ate as eight.

We have always used Chambers as our Bible.

I have not enjoyed scrabble since the new dictionary was introduced

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?

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.

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.

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

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.