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zyxt

Playing scrabble tonight, I will be sure to bust out this word and destroy everyone.

PS - i am a nerd.

wordjournal:

verb • [obsolete, Kentish] the second singular indicative present tense form of ‘to see.’

According to the first version of the Oxford English Dictionary, this was the last word in the English language, and the New York Times put that “with the inclusion of the Old Kentish word zyxt…the work was done, the alphabet was exhausted, and the full text was now wholly in the printers’ hands.” (Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman)

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    Scrabble high-scoring bullshit
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    as a latin scholar, i find...extremely interesting.
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    figure out how to use
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    Playing scrabble tonight, I will be sure...destroy everyone. PS - i am a nerd.
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