STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And we have important news today for people who play Scrabble, the game where you take letters and try to assemble them into words.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Such as Renee, R-E-N-E-E.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Renee, I think proper names are not allowed.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Good to know because this is also about Scrabble rules.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: If your available letters include a stray Z, you may now spell out L-O-L-Z or lolz, the shorthand for laughs out loud.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: It's worth a solid 13 points. And now, in Britain at least, it's a totally legit move. For that you can say thanx - that's with an X - another newly approved word thanks to Britain's educational publishing house Collins.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: It's added 6,500 words to the official U.K. Scrabble list, words like twerking or cakehole.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: And new tech terms are on the list, too, like emoji, facetime and hashtag.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: And to put at ease the Scrabble purists listening right now, the new word that will get you the most points has nothing to do with modern slang.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: It's quinzhee, the term for a snow shelter.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: How do you spell that, Renee?</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Q-U-I-N-Z-H-E-E.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Well done, good for at least 29 points - 29 points and probably long enough to boost it with a double-word score.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: This is NPR, N-E-W-S.
A list of 6,500 new words have been approved for use in Scrabble games. The new words include slang terms like twerk and shizzle.