A correction

[womzilla]

At this week's NYRSF Weekly Meeting (come one! come all), I said that "leitmotiv" was the only English word ending in "v". I was wrong; in SOWPODS*, there are 19:

dev, ganev, guv, improv, isogriv, lav, leitmotiv, lev, luv, maglev, moshav, rev, schav, shiv, spiv, stotinov, tav, tolarjev, vav

Please adjust your memory accordingly.

*As mentioned previously, SOWPODS is the combined Official Scrabble Words and Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary; there are several online versions.

Comments

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I suppose "tv" hasn't entered the lexicon as a "word" yet, though it's not a true acronym and is used independently.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

In Merriam-Webster, it is presented solely as "TV", and thus would be ineligible as a Scrabble word. I'm surprised it isn't the standard Unix dictionary that Avi consulted, though.