Today’s blog post is the final installment in the series of posts devoted to playable two-letter words. Learning these two-letter words, as well as the other two-letter words in the alphabet, will enable you to see more options for play and increase the number of points you earn in a single turn.
- qi: the central life force in Chinese culture (also ki)
- re: a tone of the diatonic scale
- sh: used to encourage silence
- si: a tone of the diatonic scale (also ti)
- so: a tone of the diatonic scale (also sol)
- ta: an expression of thanks
- ti: a tone of the diatonic scale
- to: in the direction of
- uh: used to express hesitation
- um: used to express hesitation
- un: one
- up: to raise (-s, -ped, -ping)
- us: a plural pronoun
- ut: the musical tone C in the French solmization system, now replaced by do
- we: a first-person plural pronoun
- wo: woe
- xi: a Greek letter
- xu: a former monetary unit of Vietnam equal to one-hundreth of a dong (also sau, pl. xu)
- ya: you
- ye: you
- yo: an expression used to attract attention
- za: pizza
Next Up
Wordplay Day! To prepare for class, revisit the Dictionary and World Builder pages on the Scrabble website, or the Merriam-Webster Scrabble Word Finder page, and review the blog posts devoted to Scrabble tips, including this one.
As an introduction to Michael Lewis, whose writing we will examine in class on Monday, read this overview of his publications. After you read it, compose a one- or two-paragraph journal entry that addresses these questions: (1) Lewis’s two books on one subject have both been adapted for film. What is the subject, and what are the titles of the two books (and films)? (2) A third book of his, one devoted to a different subject, has also been adapted for film. What is the subject, and what is the title of the book (and film)?
Coming Soon
In class on Wednesday, you will begin planning and drafting your second major writing assignment, your analysis. The chapter of Michael Lewis’ writing that we examine in class on Monday and the other texts we have studied thus far in English 1103–“MeTalk Pretty One Day,” “The Day Language Came into Life,” “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” the excerpt from the first chapter of To Kill a Mockingbird,” and “The School“–are among the pieces of writing that may serve as the subject of your upcoming analysis.
Postscript
Congratulations to Avery Clark for winning a copy of Donald Barthelme’s 60 Stories in today’s prize drawing.
Jane Lucas 