couldn't find it when i site-searched so hows about this for Pedants corner no. 3:
another mistake is the "filth"-completed Scrabble board in the classic "Men Of Letters" episode.
the game of
Scrabble has been made available in 36 languages.
namely: English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh.
of course, some of these languages use a completely different alphabet.
its possible that Harold totted a foreign issue box from an expatriate householder on the rounds, but even then, assuming a standard
Scrabble set from any of these countries was used - and no cheating by Harold or Albert hiding extra letters up their sleeves - the board as we see it (in 1972), is impossible.
the Portuguese and Romanian editions of the game have the most letter "
P"s (4) (English only 2) and yet, there are
5 shown on the board.
to wit;
Pet, ra
Pe, ni
PPle, and
Pox.
further, the letter "
S" is seen deployed on 5 occasions in 4 words: bri
Stol
S,
Spunk,
So and vibrator
S - despite the fact that said letter is represented by only 4 tiles in the English Language edition of
Scrabble - although the Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Latvian, Latin, Italian, Irish, Icelandic, French, Finnish, German, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish versions all number 5 or more letter "
S tiles.
