The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words - "Isekai" is now officially part of the OED.
The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words - "Isekai" is now officially part of the OED.
More than half of the borrowed words relate to cooking, while Kintsugi, the increasingly popular art of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer is also included
It's official. You're not an otaku nerd anymore if you say Isekai but someone with an extensive vocabulary. Don't let anyone tell you anything else!
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Does that mean isekai is a valid scrabble word?
Doesn't Scrabble have its own dictionary?
There are Scrabble dictionaries, but they're mostly for convenience.
The actual rule is that you can use any word that appears in a standard English dictionary, except for suffixes, prefixes, abbreviations, or anything that requires a hyphen, apostrophe, or capital letter.
This guy Scrabbles
Yep!