30 players at the Toronto Scrabble Club tonight, including yours truly as acting director. Won one, lost one, had a great time.

NASPA Word of the Day: TRITICUM n a cereal grass. Hook:triticumS. Blanagrams:tErmitic tritiumS truiStic. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: KERB v to provide with curbing. Anagram:berk. Hook:kerbS. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: CULLY v to trick. Extension:cullyING. Typos:bully celly colly culls curly dully fully gully sully. Anahook:cullAy. Blanagrams:Scull lucKy. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: VERNIER n an auxiliary scale used with a main scale to obtain fine measurements. Anagram:nervier. Hook:vernierS. Typos:dernier fernier veinier. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: DIZEN v to dress in fine clothes. Hook:dizenS. Extensions:BEdizen BEdizenED BEdizenING BEdizenMENT BEdizenMENTS BEdizenS dizenED dizenING dizenMENT dizenMENTS. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: NITON n radon. Hook:nitonS. Typos:ninon piton. Anahooks:Anoint intRon intoWn intonE nAtion notiOn notinG tiGnon toninG. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: VERSANT n the slope of a mountain or mountain chain. Anagrams:servant taverns. Hook:versantS. Extension:CONversant. Typo:verdant. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: LENITION n a change in articulation. Hook:lenitionS. Anahooks:entoilinG lineAtion. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: SLATTERN n a slovenly woman. Hook:slatternS. Extensions:slatternLINESS slatternLY. Anahooks:alterAnts resUltant sterIlant tarletAns traWlnets translAte. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: HAWKWEED n a weedlike herb. Hook:hawkweedS. Blanagram:hawkeYed. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: GENNAKER n a spinnaker sail. Hook:gennakerS. Blanagrams:enDanger ganGrene. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: GANOID n a type of fish. Hook:ganoidS. Typo:gadoid. Anahooks:Loading aBoding adoRing daDoing doaTing goadinG gonadiC gonidIa. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: SUSURRUS n a soft rustling sound. Extension:susurrusES. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: BIOTOXIN n poison made by a plant or animal. Hook:biotoxinS. Blanagram:botoxinG. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

Results of our annual household Easter Egg Hunt

NASPA Word of the Day: DIAZEPAM n a tranquilizer. Hook:diazepamS. Blanagram:mazaediA. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

We postponed Christmas this year until a younger relative was safely out of hospital. Happily, that day came today, Good Friday, and we gathered around the tree and exchanged gifts. My favourite moment though was the baker asking, "Are you sure you're sure you want the cake to say Merry Christmas?"

Definitely one of those things I would hate to have to do, unless the alternatives were worse.

English word break hyphenation is weirdly nonstandardized. The key idea is that the reader should be able to read smoothly across a hyphenated break, so e.g. “rat•ing” is bad because you don’t know how to pronounce rat until you see ing. But what you are used to affects what you expect and accept.

Word break hyphenation and syllabification are similar but different things. For example, almost everyone says you can hyphenate “ses•sion”, but wherever you place the syllable break in that word it won’t be in that spot.

I think if space were tight enough I would allow hyphenating “amass•ed”.

NASPA Word of the Day: PHTHISIS n a disease of the lungs. Typos:phthises phthisic. Anahook:phthisiCs. Blanagram:Dipshits. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

Nobody does competency reality programming like NASA.

www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

NASPA Word of the Day: CAUDILLO n a military dictator. Hook:caudilloS. Blanagrams:Fucoidal Mucoidal allodiuM cloudilY colluVia cuBoidal lodiculE oViducal. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: SUMPTER n a pack animal. Anagram:stumper. Hook:sumpterS. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: BOLIVIA n a soft fabric. Hook:boliviaS. Extensions:boliviaNO boliviaNOS. Blanagrams:Ravioli bolivaR. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: WYNN n the rune for W. Hook:wynnS. Typos:wynd wyns. Anahook:wEnny. Blanagrams:Awny wAny wIny yAwn. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

NASPA Word of the Day: SCHLIERE n a small streak in an igneous rock. Anagram:chiseler. Hook:schliereN. Extension:schliereNS. Anahooks:chiselLer chiselerS cleVerish cleriheWs lecheriEs. https://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl

Cheese soufflé time!