Scrabble stuff

One summer when I should have been studying for my preliminary exams, I became obsessed with Scrabble, one fruit of which was a Scrabble dictionary that is small enough (16 pages) to fit inside a travel set.

• PDF file
• PostScript file

It is based on the ENABLE word list, which should be the same as the official North American list (OSPD 2+3) up to the 8-letter words (with one extra word). The dictionary was shrunk in three ways:

1. Words longer than eight letters, even inflected forms, were excluded.
2. Really really small letters.
3. The words are organized by prefix (not necessarily etymological), which reduces the size of the dictionary by almost half.

The prefixes are written in boldface caps, and their completions in normal type. If a prefix does not have a hyphen, then it's a valid word by itself. For example,

AA h hed hing

stands for AA AAH AAHED AAHING, whereas

ABE- am d le

stands for ABEAM ABED ABELE (and not ABE).

Printing instructions:

1. Print double-sided: odds on one side, evens on the other.
2. Cut off the top and bottom to 9 inches minus a little bit.
3. Fold in half and staple in the middle like a booklet.