There Should Be A Better Word

I often play a word game on my iPad called Words With Friends. It’s very much like playing Scrabble, but, unlike Scrabble, you can try as many combinations of the letter tiles as you want until your word is accepted. Sometimes, you randomly arrange the tiles, and a word you never knewexisted is accepted. (Out of curiosity, I often look up the definitions of these words, thus justifying the “educational value” of playing this game.)

But, there are many other times when I arrange the tiles into...