Latin
There are two kinds of Latin-language Scrabble sets developed by two authorities in the language.
The first distribution, developed by the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Toronto, uses these 100 tiles:
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: E ×12, A ×9, I ×9, V ×9, S ×8, T ×8, R ×7, O ×5
- 2 points: C ×4, M ×4, N ×4, D ×3, L ×3
- 3 points: Q ×3
- 4 points: B ×2, G ×2, P ×2, X ×2
- 8 points: F ×1, H ×1
The second distribution below was made "in conjunction with scholars from the University of Cambridge and elsewhere, together with the Cambridge Schools Classics Project." Note that this distribution distinguishes U from V, with the semi-vocalic V scoring five times the points.
- 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
- 1 point: E ×11, A ×9, I ×11, N ×6, R ×9, S ×8, T ×7, U ×7
- 2 points: C ×4, M ×5, O ×5
- 3 points: D ×3
- 4 points: L ×2, P ×2
- 5 points: B ×2, V ×2
- 6 points: F ×1, G ×1, X x1
- 10 points: H ×1, Q ×1
Read more about this topic: Scrabble Letter Distributions
Famous quotes containing the word latin:
“There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)
“In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“He tries by a peculiar speech to speak
The peculiar potency of the general,
To compound the imagination’s Latin with
The lingua franca et jocundissima.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)