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Scrabble is set to introduce 300 new words inluding 'OK' and 'ew', in the board game's first shakeup for four years.

Merriam-Webster released the sixth edition of 'The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary' on Monday - with some very strange additions making the cut.

Among the new words are; sriracha, beatdown, zomboid, twerk, sheeple, wayback, bibimbap, botnet, emoji, facepalm, frowny, hivemind, puggle and yowza. 

The new words are intended to revolutionize the game, which has been around since the 1930s, with the inclusion of 'OK' being touted as a particularly noteworthy change.

Scrabble updates its dictionary once every four years to add in words which are relevant to the era 

'OK is something Scrabble players have been waiting for, for a long time,' said lexicographer Peter Sokolowski, editor at large at Merriam-Webster. 'Basically two- and three-letter words are the lifeblood of the game.' 

The Springfield, Massachusetts-based dictionary company sought counsel from the North American Scrabble Players Association when updating the book, Sokolowski said, 'to make sure that they agree these words are desirable.'

Merriam-Webster put out the first official Scrabble dictionary in 1976. Before that, the game's rules called for any desk dictionary to be consulted. Since an official dictionary was created, it has been updated every four to eight years. 

Sokolowski has a favorite among the new words but not, primarily, because of Scrabble scores. 'It's macaron,' he said, referring to the delicate French sandwich cookie featuring different flavors and fillings, 'I just like what it means.'

'I think ew is also interesting because it expresses something new about what we're seeing in language, which is to say that we are now incorporating more of what you might call transcribed speech,' he said.

Among the new list of words being added this year is 'yowza' - an expression of surprise

The word ew appears in the new edition of Merriam Webster's 'Official Scrabble Players Dictionary,' in New York, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. It is among more than 300 additions in the latest edition. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

'Sounds like ew or mm-hmm, or other things like coulda or kinda.

'Traditionally, they were not in the dictionary but because so much of our communication is texting and social media that is written language, we are finding more transcribed speech and getting a new group of spellings for the dictionary,' 

Scrabble was first trademarked as such in 1948, after it was thought up under a different name in 1933 by Alfred Mosher Butts, an out-of-work architect in Poughkeepsie, New York. 

Interest in the game picked up in the early 1950s, according to legend, when the president of Macy's happened upon it while on vacation.

Now, the official dictionary holds more than 100,000 words.

The word sheeple appears in the new edition of Merriam Webster's 'Official Scrabble Players Dictionary,' in New York, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018. It is among more than 300 additions in the latest edition. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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