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
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For Monday’s class, you will read and annotate Brian Aldiss’s short stories “Supertoys When Winter Comes” and “Supertoys in Other Seasons,” which I distributed in class on Wednesday. If you were absent or misplaced your copies, print ones from Blackboard.
Jane Lucas 