TWL2: Interesting new words

TWL2 is starting tomorrow!!!


New words:
DUH!!!!! Finally, this is in use.....
ZZZ: an unlikely word to be played, having to use 2 blanks with the Z!!!
AHI: I guess it's the Ahi Tuna fish, a favourite dish here.
ZA: the short form of pizza....what is the world coming to....

More usable 2 & 3-letter SOWPODS words now, for e.g.:
OI, QI, AHS, CIG, CRU, DAN, DEF, FAB, GOS, HOS, KYE, LES, MEG, OBA, ODA, POO, PST, QIS, RAI, SUK, UTE, VID, VUM, ZUZ

New 4-letter words that are interesting:
BLOG!! This new fangled word, what I am doing now... (BLOGGING is good, but not BLOGGED? Why? WEBLOG/WEBLOGS are good too)
MEME: Another new one!! meme me!!
CHAI: My favourite CBTL drink, Chai Latte
HAKU, JUKU, KOJI: Japanese words?
KUFI: Islamic skull-cap

More usable 4-letter SOWPODS words: QADI, ZINE, ZONA, ZOUK

New 5-letter words that are interesting:
AZUKI: Japanese red beans
BENTO: Japanese lunch box
BICEP: arm muscle... why wouldn't it be in?
BURKA/BURQA: Whole-body covers for Middle-eastern ladies
CUVEE: a wine word?
CYBER: another high-tech word
DROID: may the force be with you...
DUMBO: haha! you!!
EBOOK: another high-tech word
EMAIL: finally, those guys get it
EMMYS: an award?
FEDEX: another brand got generic
FOLIC: that's a nutrient for you
FUBAR: F-up beyond all recognition!!!
GAZOO: no idea what, but it was SOWPODS usable
GYOZA: Japanese dumpling
HAKUS: Japanese poetry
HALAL: permissable in Islam
HIJAB: Islamic veil
JELLO: they invented it, but never used it, another brand to generic use
KOMBU: Japanese seaweed, good for health
KORMA: Indian spice
LASSI: Indian yogurt drink, mango lassi is my favourite!
LOGON/LOGIN: more high-tech words
LYCRA: another brand to generic
MANGA: Japanese comics
MEMES: memememememe
MYLAR: another brand
PYREX: another brand
QADIS: usable in SOWPODS
SKANK: men don't want to be called this
SPAMS: unwanted emails, or mashed pork?
SPAZZ: spastic, I think
TANGA: sexy briefs
TECHS: ya, ya, another tech word
TELCO: short for telecommunications company, or telecom company, or telco...
UDONS: Japanese noodles
UMAMI: Japanese, the taste of MSG, not sweet, not salty, not sour, not bitter
VENUS: huh? a planet? or to describe a woman?
VOCAB: English is on the decline.... vocabulary became vocab
WANKS: you do that?
WICCA: the ancient religion of worshipping mother earth and nature, for witches
WUSHU: Chinese martial arts!!
ZINES: no idea, but good for SOWPODS
ZONAE: no idea, but good for SOWPODS

and.....
WEBSITE/WEBSITES: New to TWL2. How backward was TWL1??? WEBCAST is new. No PODCAST yet!! TWL3 perhaps.

Japanese, Islamic and IT words made a big impact to the dictionaries. Chinese words only had WUSHU, and QI, I suppose.

Hope to go through all the new words soon... tough..... according to LAMPWORDS that I use, there are:

5 x 2-letter words (3 to OSW)
44 x 3-letter words (21 to OSW)
128 x 4-letter words (66 to OSW)
303 x 5-letter words (160 to OSW)
556 x 6-letter words (384 to OSW)
920 x 7-letter words (649 to OSW)
1,349 x 8-letter words (985 to OSW)

Looks like a lot to learn. Lesser for me, if with SOWPODS, but I've still got to sort out those that cannot be used still!!! Damn TWL....