Making real-sounding fake words is a much better game than Bananagrams π
Bananagrams is still very good, just inferior.
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My family started playing Phonetic Scrabble. You can spell a word any way you want to as long as you can justify that it would sound correct using other words in the English language.
I still think we broke some rules though...
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This is a much more interesting scrabble board than a standard game
Xeobiotin sounds like the next nefarious unicorn biotech startup
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Not yet, but open to suggestions. We can put it in urban dictionary π
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One of my faves: rawgabbit also grubbling. Both real; both no longer used. Shakespeare is also full of goodies.
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have you seen this dictionary/tumblr of made-up words explaining difficult feelings?
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Ah many years ago but I completely forgot about that! Good nostalgia
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There is a book of poems made of real-sounding fake words, but it is in Spanish, from an Argentinean poet. It's called "In the moremarrow" ("En la masmΓ©dula")
