bless the misses

[ThePainInSpain]

Does Scrabble, when sold in other countries, have differing proportions of letters? Apparently the proportions of letter in the English version was carefully calculated by totting up the letters in newspapers. In other languages, presumably, the proportions would differ.

In fact I was only partly taking the pi$ out of SWMBO, because in fact in Spanish there is no K or W but there is LL (which is actually a letter, not 2) and of course the squiggly bit over the n.

Wouldn't have though they would sell many Scrabble sets in Andalucia, most of then still can't read.

 

[Maz]

In fact I was only partly taking the pi$ out of SWMBO, because in fact in Spanish there is no K or W but there is LL (which is actually a letter, not 2) and of course the squiggly bit over the n.

Most modern Spanish dictionaries now omit LL as a unique letter. The words starting with LL now appear under L.

 

[yello]

There are no accents on the French e in scrabble, not sure if that makes the game easier or more difficult...

You'd figure easier because that gives you é, è, ê or ë with one tile. Looks to me though that it's the same distribution of letters with the same scores as the English version. Not sure I'm that interested in finding out for sure though!

 

[red_tom]

Why is it that whatever the language, E is one of the most common letters?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Never mind the missus, I was just moaning about how the bargain veg peeler I'd bought yesterday was sodding useless when I realised I hadn't taken off the clear plastic cover that was shielding the blades