Attached at the Lap
While I was swimming laps, Mara was taking her turn on the little Travel Scrabble game balanced on her lap. I came back dripping, grabbed for a towel with one hand and picked up a snapped shut tile of miniature letters with the other. Then I sat down on the lounge chair and laughed.
“I don’t even remember these letters. I must have picked them just before I jumped in.”
“Those are my letters!” Mara shouted.
A few minutes later, she asked, “Is sneed a word?”
“Only if we’re allowing Dr. Suess words,” I answered.
Kayla, Mara’s daughter, called me back over to the pool to take a video of her jumping off the diving board HERE. She didn’t make much of a splash. I considered doing a retake, but I had a game to finish.
Post Notes: This scene happened last week. More recently, I went to the pool on the last day it was open for the season, which was also the day before school started. The parking lot was like Walmart, which was unusual for our small town. I had to wait for a van to pull out, freeing up a place to park. You can scroll down HERE for more Scrabble adventures.
August 17th, 2007 10:29 am
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary – Cite This Source
Sneed
Sned \Sned\, Sneed \Sneed\, n. See Snath.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary – Cite This Source
sneed
Snatch \Snatch\, n. [Cf. AS. sn[=i]?an to cut, to mow, sn?d a bite, bit snip.] The handle of a scythe; a snead. [Variously written in England snead, sneed, sneath, sneeth, snathe, etc.; in Scotland written sned.]
August 17th, 2007 11:14 am
I’ve been playing Scrabble with new friends on Facebook. Not quite the same, though!
August 17th, 2007 11:58 am
Hi Jan, We didn’t even bother to look “sneed” up, but I did just now using the online Scrabble dictionary and they didn’t have it as a word. Maybe it’s in the British Scrabble Dictionary, which I think is slightly different.
http://www.hasbro.com/games/adult-games/scrabble/home.cfm?page=home
Look what I found when I googled Dr. Suess and Sneed. It’s from a review on The Lorax: Although The Lorax is written in traditional Seuss rhyming style the words in this book present a bit more challenge than Cat in The Hat, for example. You will be reading this to your children for a while until they are old enough to either master the words or giggle over them when they pronounce them wrong. Who cares! Don�t worry about pronouncing words such as Grickle, Truffula, Barbaloots and Sneed.
August 17th, 2007 2:22 pm
Now you two are some Scrabble playing fools when you start taking it to the pool with you!
August 17th, 2007 5:50 pm
Everybody needs a Thnead.
August 17th, 2007 9:58 pm
Here from Micheles tonight Colleen- I read this this morning- I’m amazed the country club’s pool is closed already! I suppose with school in session they don’t see many people coming to use it though. Hope you’re having a good end of the summer too.
August 17th, 2007 10:08 pm
I definitely think Dr. Seuss words should be allowed. Personally I like the score I get when I use ‘cruntunkulous’ from The Cat in the Hat animated movie. 🙂
Hello, MIchele sent me!!
August 17th, 2007 10:11 pm
Hi Colleen,
Here from Michele’s…I haven’t played scrabble in yrs..but where I live everyone speaks french ..although I am bilingual my written french is atrocious so I have played along using english..and always won because there are so many more words using z and x etc lol..