Stuart GouldenBudding wordsmiths will soon be able to score big with Yorkshire dialect in one of their favourite board games.
Words like swaal, twag and scaal are now officially part of the Scrabble vocabulary after a call out from makers Hasbro for recommendations of endangered terms. It is hoped the move will even the balance for players up and down the country, and also preserve regional worlds for a new generation.
The words from Yorkshire being considered for inclusion in the next edition of the Collins Scrabble Dictionary include “swaal”, a Yorkshire word meaning to spread over the ground.
At risk words to enter the new Scrabble dictionary, by region:
East Yorkshire:
Swaal – throw, chuck
Twag – play truant
Scaal – to spread over the ground (eg muck)
Devon:
Zowpeg, Zowpig – woodlouse
Quaazy – unwell
Gleanies – guinea fowl
Cumbria:
Darrack – a day’s work
Whick – living, alive – not dead
Lancashire:
Marlock – to play, joke, prank
Meemaw – an antic, grotesque action, expression of freedom
Layrock – skylark or lark
Lincolnshire:
Skelled – tipped
Arrad – tired
Splawder – to walk or run awkwardly and inefficiently, to spread over
Hotchin – a hedgehog
Gawster – to laugh helplessly
Nowter – a nobody, someone who does not count
Norfolk:
Tizzick – cough
Pishamire – ant
Swidge – small puzzle
Northumberland:
Stangy – tailor
Norration – confused noise, disturbance
Kent:
Pogger – compulsive worrier
Boboy – human figure, scarecrow
