Talk:Alfred Mosher Butts

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The invention date does not match with the Scrabble article. Research should be done to discover which is the correct date. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.241.79.49 (talk • contribs) 01:00, 10 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Matches date on the Scrabble wiki-page. - Gdavidp 08:52, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't the picture be added to the page, not in an external link? --Inkiw (talk) 01:36, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Not enough information
It does not even say his birth date. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.80.177.50 (talk • contribs) 16:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
 * It does now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Earthlyreason (talk • contribs) 01:23, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Invention of Scrabble
This article should not go into detail of the invention of Scrabble, or of Lexico, which are covered on their respective pages. We need to thin this part out, and focus on the man. Earthlyreason (talk) 01:26, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Entry in American architects
Since it is well known that Butts worked as an architect, should he not be added to the "American architects" category? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:49, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ Meteor sandwich yum (talk) 00:33, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Etymology of "scrabble"
I'm a bit baffled by this: "scrabble" is a perfectly ordinary word -- if you drop pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, you scrabble around under the table looking for them. But I am old an English: are there really English varieties in which this is not known? For the moment I will remove the "explanation" involving Dutch; Scrabble includes a more reasoned phrasing - "...a real word which means 'to scratch frantically'" - and I could add this in if I can be persuaded that it is necessary. Imaginatorium (talk) 12:20, 13 August 2017 (UTC)