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DATE: FRIDAY, August 19, 1994                   TAG: 9408190094
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A5   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: UNIVERSAL CITY, CALIF.                                 LENGTH: Short

SCRABBLE GROUP WON'T CENSOR ITSELF

A new Scrabble dictionary due to be purged of 100 offensive words will not be used in tournament play, the National Scrabble Association said Thursday.

Hasbro Inc., which owns Scrabble manufacturer Milton Bradley, said in May it would eliminate as many as 100 words deemed to be ethnic and racial slurs from the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. The third edition of the book is due out at the end of the year.

``To us, words are just game pieces, like a bridge hand or chess men,'' association spokesman John Williams Jr. said at the National Scrabble Championships at the Universal Hilton Hotel.

- Associated Press 


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