Last Friday’s blog post offered you the opportunity to earn bonus points if you posted a response that identified the names of students in sections nineteen and twenty with first and last names that are also common nouns, making them playable Scrabble words. The lists below include those students’ names with the playable names in bold.
Section 19
- Willow Conley (a tree or shrub)
- Bailey Dawkins (an outer castle wall)
- James Emery (a granular corundum)
- Dalton Holbrook (a unit of atomic mass)
- Tai Marchese (an Italian nobleman)
- Lexi Painter (one who paints)
- Stephanie Salters (pl. of salter, one who salts)
- Ananda Williams (extreme happiness)
Section 20
- Allie Early (near the beginning)
- Chase Eller (to pursue)
- Stella Galindo Haas (a formerly used coin of the United States)
- Eva Kelly (a bright green color)
- Steven Lee (shelter from the wind)
- Mark McLaughlin (to make a visible impression on)
- Bo Raitto (a friend)
- Melody Smith (an agreeable succession of musical sounds, a metal worker)
- Brad Weiner (a metal fastener, a hotdog)
Congratulations to Check, Please! bonus-point recipients Cait Bartlett, Jed Negley, Leyla Oruc, Stephanie Salters (section 19), and Chase Eller, Stella Galindo Haas, and Zach Moellendick (section 20) for identifying their classmates’ playable names.
Continue to review last Friday’s blog post, both to increase your word power and to put your classmates’ names with faces.
Next Up
Wordplay Day! To prepare for class, look to the Dictionary and World Builder pages on the Scrabble website, and review the blog posts devoted to Scrabble tips.
Jane Lucas 