Talked about in the MSM, but “not allowed to say the words”. Well, we ARE called Uncensored, so here is the uncensored (almost) list of words that are under consideration for deletion from the Scrabble Dictionary! MH
OFFENSIVE TERMS THAT COULD BE BANNED FROM OFFICIAL SCRABBLE COMPETITIONS
Slang terms for Aboriginal people, baldie, baywop, baywops, boche, boches, bogtrotter, bogtrotters, bohunk, bohunks, bubba, bubbas, buckra, buckras, bumboy, bumboys, butches, Offensive terms for Latin-American women, coloreds, coloureds, crip, crips, crumblies, culchie, culchier, culchies, culchiest, culshie, culshier, culshies, culshiest, c***, c****, highly-offensive terms for people with dark skin, highly-offensive term for Lesbians,dogan, dogans, variations of the homophobic slur f*****, fatso, fatsoes, fatsos, gadje, gadjo, ginzo ginzoes, offensive slurs meaning ‘non-Jewish’, graybeard, graybeards, greybeard, greybeards, gringa, gringas, gringo, gringos, haole, haoles, hicksville, hicksvilles, honkey, honkeys, honkie, honkies, honky, hos, hunkey, hunkeys, hunkie, hunkies, jailbait, jailbaits, jesuit, jesuitic, jesuitical, jesuitically, jesuitism, jesuitisms, jesuitries, jesuitry, jesuits, jew, jewed, jewing, jews, jigaboo, jigaboos, kanaka, kanakas, les, lesbo, lesbos, leses, lez, lezzes, lezzie, lezzies, lezzy, mick, micks, mulatto, mulattoes, mulattos, nance, nances, nancier, nancies, nanciest, nancy, the N-word and other variations, nonpapist, nonpapists, ofay, ofays, papism, papisms, papist, papistic, papistries, papistry, papists, pepsi, pepsis, picaninnies, picaninny, piccaninnies, piccaninny, pickaninnies, pickaninny, pickney, pickneys, polack, polacks, pommie, pommies, pommy, poncey, poncier, ponciest, poncy, poofier, poofiest, poofs, pooftah, pooftahs, poofter, poofters, poofy, poontang, poontangs, poove, pooves, poperies, popery, popish, popishly, raghead, ragheads, redneck, rednecks, schvartze, schvartzes, schwartze, schwartzes, sheeney, sheeneys, sheenie, sheenies, shegetz, shemale, shemales, shicksa, shicksas, shiksa, shiksas, shikse, shikseh, shiksehs, shikses, shkotzim, various racial slurs for black people, skimo, skimos, spaz, spazz, spazzes, ethnic slurs for Latin American people, highly-offensive terms for Indigenous North American women, vendu, vendus, wetback, wetbacks, whiteys, whities, racist slur w** and its variants, highly-offensive Jewish slurs.
As a Pommie (Pommy, Pom) myself, I really couldn’t care less about the use of the term (or not) in Scrabble or anywhere else. Martin.