The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words
www.theguardian.com
More than half of the borrowed words relate to cooking, while Kintsugi, the increasingly popular art of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer is also included

It’s official. You’re not an otaku nerd anymore if you say Isekai but someone with an extensive vocabulary. Don’t let anyone tell you anything else!

  • NineSwordsOPEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Doesn’t Scrabble have its own dictionary?

    • Malgas@beehaw.orgEnglish
      13·
      8 months ago

      There are Scrabble dictionaries, but they’re mostly for convenience.

      The actual rule is that you can use any word that appears in a standard English dictionary, except for suffixes, prefixes, abbreviations, or anything that requires a hyphen, apostrophe, or capital letter.