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War over words: US Scrabble leader overrules panel to ban slurs

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New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation North American Scrabble competitors will no longer be able to play racist and homophobic slurs from the “N-word” to “bumboy” and “poofs”, the head of the players’ association has said, in an 11th-hour ruling that went against his own advisory board. John Chew, chief executive of the North American […]