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To Scrabble fanatics, big gifts sometimes come in small packages. The word “te” as a variant of “ti,” the seventh tone on the musical scale, is a hardworking little gem among 5,000 words added to “The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary,” out on Aug. 11 from Merriam-Webster.
Words from the Spanish-Tagalog ‘vocabulario’ or dictionary, Libreria Martinez, circa 1810
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