The first Scrabble blog post of the semester featured playable two-letter words beginning with “a.” Learning those two-letter words, as well as the others that follow in the alphabet, will enable you to see more options for play and can increase the number of points you earn in a single turn.
Here’s a list of the playable words beginning with “b,” “d,” and “e.”
- ba: the soul in ancient Egyptian spirituality
- bi: a bisexual
- bo: a pal
- by: a side issue
- de: of, from
- do: a tone on a scale
- ed: education
- ef: the letter f (also eff)
- eh: used to express doubt
- el: an elevated train
- em: the letter m
- en: the letter n
- er: used to express hesitation
- es: the letter s
- et: a past tense of eat
- ex: the letter x
Next Up
Class will not meet on Monday, but in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., you will read his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” Though his epistolary essay is not a literacy narrative, it’s a valuable piece of prose for writers to study, in particular its sensory details and figurative lanaguage. Pay close attention to the long sentence that dominates the eleventh paragraph. I will address that sentence in detail in Monday’s post.
Jane Lucas 