VTDigger runs on reader support. Help us reach our goal by Dec. 31. Alfred Butts visits Spartan Industries, where Scrabble tiles were manufactured, in Fairfax in 1985. Photo courtesy of Lela Butts For ...
They may not be everyday conversational terms but, according to one American researcher, the recent inclusion in Scrabble’s official dictionary of modern and dialect words like these has rendered the ...
It’s Scrabble Day today, in case you hadn’t noticed. It is held each year on the date of birth of its creator, American architect Alfred Mosher Butts, who came up with the game in the late 1930s. In ...
FAIRFAX, Vt. -- Friday spells the end for the only U.S. factory making those little wooden Scrabble tiles. Hasbro Inc. is hanging a C-L-O-S-E-D sign at the Milton Bradley Wood Products Co., which has ...