Some people learn words that are difficult to spell with mnemonics Some of the ones that have been given to me in the past are; AIOLI - All Irishmen Only Like Irishwomen AIDOI - All Islanders Die On Islands VOZHD - Very Old Zoos Have Dinosaurs WAQF - Want A Quick F....? WAKF - Want A Kinky F....? I thought I might try my hand at creating a few more: How do you like these ones I thought up today? NDUJA - November, December Usually January Afterwards GHERAO - Get Her Expensive

E is the most common letter - there are 12 in the bag. That is all as it should be because we are usually more than happy to pick one up. However you sometimes get too many of them. 4, 5 or even 6 E's is definitely too much of a good thing. 6 words of 6 letters that have 4 E's. Did you know them all? BEEBEE A pellet for an airgun PEEWEE The lapwing - a bird. Also known as the PEWIT or PEEWIT TEEPEE Native American tent. Also spelled TIPI or TEPEE TEEVEE Television VEE

Doesn't it seem easy to pick up letters like AAIIU and two consonants? In order to try to balance your rack so that you might realistically hope for better letters on the next turn it would be nice to play a four or five letter word with AIU. Then you are drawing to either AI by itself or AI plus one consonant. That is as good as you can do with the rubbish you had. There are 5 words of 4 letters with the AIU combination: QUAI Alternative spelling of QUAY, a wharf for loadi

I know some unusual words that I have swotted, but sometimes I miss completely normal words. Other players don't study as much as me, but they are natural word finders. In the game above I missed an ordinary word that would have been a great play. Someone such as Cathy Casey who is good at spotting the words she knows probably would not have missed this opportunity. The picture is a bit small, but if you click on it you will make it bigger. How did you go? I need to hide the

Here are some useful 5 letter words that include the letters IIA AALII Hawaiian tree ALIBI The plea of being elsewhere at the relevant time BIALI Onion roll, also spelled BIALY IAMBI A term in poetic rhythm. Takes a C hook for IAMBIC TIBIA Leg below the knee. TIBIAE, TIBIAL & TIBIAS are OK BIVIA Plural of BIVIUM, part of an echinoderm CILIA A short, hairlike projection from a cell ILIAC About the pelvic bone. ILIACI is the plural of ILIACUS AMICI The plural

Where do you keep your sacred vessels? Oh, you don't have any? Well in that case you might not know any of the following words. They all have the same meaning - a cupboard for sacred vessels. They have common enough letters that they will turn up on your rack every now and then and be very useful in a game of scrabble. AMBRY This is the only one that has an anagram - BARMY - but that extends to BARMIER whereas this makes the bingo AMBRIES. A very common combination with no al