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Breaking news: Scrabble to allow proper nouns

Well, I am really torn about this one.Mattel has announced that the new Scrabble rules, out in July, will allow ... sigh... Proper Nouns. On the one hand, change is inevitable, and I'm generally in favor of increased laxity in prescriptive grammar rules. On the other hand, as I've written before, Scrabble is a game, and as such, has to have an arbitrary set of rules designed to govern it in the



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