Mattel is changing the rules of Scrabble!
Proper nouns will now be allowed.
Now, I suppose, faced with a word like "ISHKABIBBLE," players will be forced to debunk claims like "But they're an obscure, defunct band in the local music scene of Columbus, Ohio!"
I do not like where this is heading. I envision an increase in Scrabble trash talk.
Now if only Parker Brothers would fix the glaring flaw in the rules of Boggle — the one where there is NO PENALTY for writing down every combination that could possibly be a word and hoping that one of them will turn out to be real? (You know who you are.) Oh, I could get behind that one.
UPDATE – OK, it's only in the UK.
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