I like the feeling of thinking about award winning poets rolling their eyes at a line like "—Prayers Ought To Be Castrated Stand— / —In The Corner—& Taste My Piss—Huge & Silver— /. —Condors Vomiting—," and yet I love the sound the rolling of those old crudded lids makes in my own head when the crude word is allowed to stand alone.
When using an ellipsis in a quote, the next word is allowed to be capitalised at the writer's discretion, as the ellipsis signifies that the writer is still quoting from the same source, but has skipped a part.
By contrast, sites like http://www.lexuloushelper.com/lexulous-dictionary.aspx offer checks against the entire official Scrabble TWL and SOWPODS lists, but they do not offer definitions, and so these sites are best used for resolving word challenges (determining if a word is allowed to be played), while the official Scrabble site is best used for finding definitions.
Even before his illness, Tony Blair's affectionate tolerance of this NEC member made him seem less a menace, more a mascot, who, in Ken Livingstone's words, was "allowed to do terrible things on the best carpet".
At the fourth station, near the Iran-Iraq border he was placed in a car bound for Iran, but with the help of others in the car and nearby tribal peoples, he, in his words, "was allowed to run away from the bad situation".
The words are allowed to speak for themselves.
Another name for high tea — and you know no one was trying to impress anyone if these two words were allowed to touch — is "meat tea".
Incidentally, in his book How To Do The Times Crossword, Brian Greer reminds us that in that paper, "strictly no superfluous words are allowed".
"We're trying to create a better future for our children and that includes not living in a world where hateful words are allowed to be spewed on large platforms like Trump has," she said.
It is the book Scrabble players turn to when disputes arise over whether particular words are allowed, whether enjoying a sociable – or not so sociable – evening with friends or taking part in the world championships.
