War over words: US Scrabble leader overrules panel to ban slurs

New York City, US Thomson Reuters Foundation North American Scrabble competitors will no longer be able to play racist and homophobic slurs from the “N-word” to “bumboy” and “poofs”, the head of the players’ association has said, in an 11th-hour ruling that went against his own advisory board. John Chew, chief executive of the North […]