"Philomathic"

which means having a love of letters. And what better way to celebrate letters than to talk about the history of Scrabble.

On April 4, 1993, the inventor of the board game Scrabble died. Alfred Mosher Butts was born in 1899 and "while unemployed during the depression, he surveyed the English language as found on the front page of the New York Times, determining the frequency with which letters were used. From this he gave each a value-the commonest being worth one point and the least common, Q and Z, worth ten-which was used for scoring. First dubbed Lexiko and later Criss Cross Words, his game was played beginning in 1938, but no manufacturer showed interest in mass-producing it. His wife, Nina, once amazed him by scoring 214 points with quixotic. Butts eventually put his game aside before selling it outright to entrepreneur James Brunot. In 1948 Brunot renamed it Scrabble, (from Dutch schrabben, to scrape or scratch) and set up a Scrabble factory in an abandoned schoolhouse in Dodgington, Connecticut. Since then, over a hundred million sets have been sold, and more than a million are still sold each year".

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