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SOUTH SHORE McKell Middle School librarian Jenifer Webster was scrabbling around for ideas to enhance literacy among her students, and what she came up with would boggle the mind.

Pakistan to host world’s first online scrabble c’ship from January 22 Sports January 13, 2021 Karachi: Pakistan will host WESPA Youth Cup, the first international online youth scrabble championship, from January 22, in which 96 players from 16 countries of five continents will compete, organisers said on Tuesday. “It is a great honour for Pakistan that the global regulatory body of scrabble, World English-language Scrabble Players Association (WESPA), has chosen Pakistan as the host for the championship being played online for the first time due to the COVID-19 situation. We have deci...

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The maker of popular board game Scrabble is facing a human rights complaint for including racist slurs against Aboriginal people as playable words.

A Northern Territory man has filed a formal complaint against the owners of popular board game Scrabble for including racist slurs against Aboriginal people in the game's dictionary of playable words. Aboriginal activist Stephen Hagan - formerly of Queensland, who last year forced Coon cheese to change its name - lodged the complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission against international toymaker Mattel for allowing the words "abo", "coon" and "boong" to be played. He said he was "absolutely flabbergasted" the company permitted the use of such offensive words. "My wife and I neve...