[projectaon] Re: Grand Master comment period [Book 13]

On 14 April 2012 07:01, Jonathan Blake <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Maybe others know better, but I'm not aware that it is correct with out
> "at"
> > in this context.
>
> Anyone else. Without a definitive reason to change it, I think we
> should leave it alone.
>

I would never use "scrabble" (and I don't think I've ever heard it) without
a preposition of some kind -- usually "scrabble at", although I've found an
instance of "scrabble in the mud" that sounds perfectly all right to me.

Unless this is some alternative sense that means "shoving Scrabble™ tiles
down his throat"...? ;-)

The dictionary (only one I checked, but hey) agrees; it says that
"scrabble" is intransitive. Is that definitive enough?

-- 
Tim Pederick

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