Word Judge Global

About the Book

Word Judge Global: International English and Worldwide Word Source for Clubs and Tournaments Including Super-S Club Play is a convergence of international English word lists from multiple sources. This compilation is presented to all word game players worldwide. The authors believe that all North American words should be acceptable to play in world championships. This compilation emerged to avail all players and members of NASPA, WESPA, and WGPO and the hubs of word game players worldwide to use as a reference adjudicator during international club and tournament games and as a study tool to enhance word knowledge. Word Judge Global (WJG) includes all the words listed in Word Judge For Clubs And Tournaments: The Official WGPO Word List for Word Game Players in North America Including Super-S Club Play (aka WJ2). All words are valid in crossword games such as www.isc.ro, thepixiepit.co.uk, Super-S Club in California, USA, and many others. WJG can be used throughout the continents of Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, the Arabian Gulf countries, the Central and South America, the Emirates, and the English-speaking countries such as Israel, Malta, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, and the South Seas. The short-form words are playable on a standard 15x15 grid squares. The Super-S Club game board has a 21x21 grid that can take up to twenty-one-letter words. Long words are rarely played, but it can happen in multiple steps. With words playable at an intercontinental level, WJG is a worldwide word source making all words playable and good on both sides of the Atlantic. Therefore, WJG is a reference adjudicator suitable for world championships sponsored by the MindSports International, WESPA (World English-Language Scrabble Players Association), NASPA (North American Scrabble Players Association), and WGPO (Word Game Player's Organization) in the USA.

About the Author

Maliha Mendoza Mahmood I was born in Davao City, Philippines. My second language is English, taught by teachers who were trained in the American English Language. Because of the past American occupation of the Philippines (1898--‐1946) all public and private schools used English as a medium of instruction for all subjects and courses of study, all the way from Luzon (the northern islands), Visayas (the middle islands), to Mindanao (the southern islands) where my basic elementary school education began. As a high school student interned at the Holy Spirit Academy (a Catholic school run by the German nuns, also known as Servants of the Holy Spirit Convent, Laoag, Ilocos Norte), my primary means of communication was English--‐--‐well, TAGLISH really, as it was interspersed with Tagalog, Spanish, and English. Although my father spoke Ilocano, he insisted that I should only speak in English; and if I could complete a sentence in pure English, my reward was fifty centavos. One exciting part of growing up was listening to a radio program known as “The Voice of America.” This is how I learned much of my English pronunciation. I love the English language. While in high school, I underwent a self--‐imposed process of immersion in the English language both in writing and speaking. My business administration training was completed at the University of the East in 1967. I worked as an administrative assistant to the Chairman of the Structural Engineering Department at SEATO (Southeast Asian Treaty Organization) Graduate School of Engineering in Thailand. While working in Bangkok, I met Arshud Mahmood, a Pakistani, to whom I got married. It was exciting to become an American citizen in 1982. Currently, I work with Arshud at MCE Consultants, Inc., a civil, geotechnical, and forensic engineering consulting firm he founded in Tustin, California. The desire to start my own club became a reality in September 2012. As a director of the SUPER--‐S Club in Tustin, California, I encourage all word game players to get a Super--‐S game board (21x21 grid) for the purpose of exercising their brain cells, as well as play and have fun with their family and friends. Visit the Super--‐S Club blog site superscrabble.wordpress.com where you can find word lists and stats regarding the bimonthly games of the club. Go to wordjudgeglobal.com for more info. Gary Bert Moss In1986 when I was in my early 40’s I found myself beginning Chapter VI in my life; from that point until today my life has revolved around a word game. This game has brought out my addictive nature; I had always been ‘all in’ on every project I’ve ever pursued. It was in a small meeting room in Allen Park, Michigan on a snow February morning that I was introduced to a group of fanatical and gifted scrabble brand word game competitors. At the time, I held the credentials of both a B.S. and an M.A. in Education but I was clueless about the game and the way they were playing. When I saw letter combinations on their boards that spelled ‘cwm’, ‘gweduck’, and ‘gjetost’ I wondered which language they were using. When I realized that I, like the average man on the street, utilized only 5% of the words in the English language, a light bulb lit up my awareness that these players used all one--‐ hundred--‐percent. The teacher in me caused me to drop everything else and turn my focus to words and this game. I joined local clubs; played daily; centered my entire life around their ‘Official Dictionary’. Sometime during the first year I became a certified club director and spawned a series of clubs in southeastern Michigan, and since 1995 in Orange County, California. I developed and produced teaching aides related to the 95% of the words which were unfamiliar to me. I attended tournaments and shortly thereafter hosted sanctioned tournaments. I soon learned that there were only an elite 200 players or fewer who had mastered the ‘official word list’; the rest of us had to continually learn, study and review words in order to maintain our edge. The best in the game are continually in search of systems to aid in the process of learning and memorization. Some of the systems singled out over the years include ‘stems’, ‘hooks’, ‘extensions’, ‘anagrams’, ‘alphagrams’, and ‘consograms’. Players have used ‘flashcards’, ‘bookmarks’, and ‘wordlists’. Over the last 30 years I have written and compiled more than a dozen word books, several web sites (www.just4thespellofit.com), hundreds of blogs, and taught an online class. This book, WORD JUDGE GLOBAL, a worldwide word source, is the latest project in which I’ve lent a hand.