Only a competitive scrabble player...

could study a word, even play it in a game half a dozen times, and still not know what it means.

My wife told me about a company website she was working on today, Etesian Technologies.. of course I said, 'wait, you mean E-T-E-S-I-A-N? cool!' I was going to explain to her that it could be formed from TISANE plus E, considered by many to be the top 6 letter bingo stem, but I don't think she shared my enthusiasm.

And then I realized I had no idea what etesian meant. So here it is:

ETESIAN an annually recurring wind. (pl. -S)

I don't think I would have known it took an S... good to learn!

BIDI WADI

I'm always intrigued when I find out that a word I've known (in Scrabble) for a while has another spelling, or has a group of words that are similar to it. Most recently, I was reviewing a game someone posted and found that BIDI, a word I learned early on when I was looking for ways to get rid of two I's at once, could be spelled BEEDI. Here are some BEEDIS to the right ....


On the 'similar words' note, I just learned that in addition to WADI (the bed of a usually dry watercourse) being a word, there is also:
WADDY     to strike with a thick club
WADDIE    a cowboy
WADDIED (past tense of waddy)
WADDIES (could be either one)


For a more common set of words, you could put a C on the front of these...