What Rives?
Lingua Franca 2018-08-07
Summary:
My friend Peter and I were playing a friendly game of Scrabble the other night — which for the record he won, through a very well-placed squish late in the game. We don’t formally challenge words, but we do informally challenge them, at which point we pull out my big American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.) to see what we can learn. We had already determined that ga is not in this dictionary, and fay has three different entries.
I then played riven. There was no question ab...