SKRABL
Last night Tim, Matt, Shelly, and I played phonetic Scrabble. Basically, if you can pronounce whatever letters you play, and have them sound like a word, you’re good. It was a bit more challenging than I anticipated, because you have to keeping flipping your brain back and forth from thinking about real words, to thinking about phonetic spellings.
Some of my favorites:
- SOSAJE (Sausage) by Shelly
- KRAN (Crayon— pronounced midwestern style) by Shelly, and
- GNAME (Name) by Matt…… which took a bit of convincing, but I was laughing too hard to protest. He cited ‘gnome’ in his defense.
I came up with a killer word: ERIETITE (Irritate)…….You have to pronounce it in a British-Cockney accent for it to sound right, but I thought it was fool-proof… it didn’t fly. Which was bollox if you ask me…
P.S. Mom, please disregard ‘LABYA’. It was Shelly.
