New Collins List
The 3rd edition of Collins Scrabble Words will be adopted in Australia for tournament and club use officially from 1 January 2012. The HarperCollins information on the third editon of Collins Official Scrabble Words has the ISBN number 978-0-00-742562-4. Note it is best to order through your state ASPA President.
Alan Mathews of Tasmania has prepared a document with the list of new words and the deletions, for words of length of 3-9. This PDF file may be downloaded from here
David Sutton of the UK has prepared an initiation kit (PDF, 26pp, 256kb) for the introduction of the new list. These and other files he has prepared are available from the WESPA downloads webpage.
The new reference is often referred to as CSW12, and this is the way it appears in the updated version 2.1.4 of zyzzyva. It may be downloaded from Zyzzyva which has been developed by Michael Thelen
Word Lists adjusted for CSW12
A number of our pages with different word lists have been updated, please refer to these and let Martin know of any corrections or additions.
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