The whole thing came about as a result of a casual conversation in the school library.
It turned out to be their first date, after a fashion. They were both in the same year but in different classes. Around the table the chat was about spelling. She had said how much she enjoyed playing scrabble and he chimed in, agreeing, saying how great the game was and making the point that it was a good teaching tool for spelling. Before the day was out, she had invited him around after school. On the following night he turned up, obviously raring to go. He said hello to her parents, then went through to a back room where the board was already set up.
In next to no time they were both fully engrossed. It went slowly, each not being rushed, but carefully maximizing the points they were accumulating. The game got to a point where he seemed to be taking a very long time before taking his turn.
Then, suddenly, after looking intently at his letter tiles once more, he blurted out, “Wow! Just you watch this!” He began putting tiles down, mumbling at the same time. “On the star, triple there, up there to a double… look at that! OK Here we go.” He pointed at the board. “That covers that, and I get extra points there, that links to that and that links to that.” He began adding up points. “This is going to be one huge score, let me see… that’s a total of… wow! I guess that wraps up the game.” He sat back looking satisfied.
She stared at the board. “What’s that?”
“What’s what?”
“That.” She pointed to the word ‘trocoline’. “That’s not a word.”
“Yes, it is.”
“You’ve got to be kidding!”
“No, that’s trocoline; its full name is trocedioetholine.”
She smiled and looked over at the dictionary.
“Oh! Come on,” she said, smiling and picking up the dictionary, “I’ll challenge that.”
“Go for it,” he said, full of confidence.
She began turning pages. “Did you mean tricoline, spelt with an ‘i’?”
He shook his head. “No.”
“You sure? I can only find ‘tricoline’. It’s the Portuguese word for cotton.”
“No, trocoline. It’s a chemical raising agent; when added to baking mixtures it reacts chemically to release carbon dioxide; like I said, its full name is trocedioetholine.”
She shut the dictionary. “Well, it’s not in the book, that’s all I can say.”
He frowned. “How old’s your dictionary?”
Opening it, she said, “OK. Let me see. Yes, here it is, 2012.”
“Well, there’s your answer. Your dictionary’s out of date!”
“Yes, but only by a few years.”
With raised eyebrows, he said, “You should update it really. Anyway, trocoline was only discovered in 2018, so it wouldn’t be in there, would it?”
She thought about it. “I suppose not.” She stared at him for a moment, then asked, “Are you making all of this up?”
“What, about trocoline, you mean?” He looked amazed. “No, not at all,” he said.
They cleared the game away and he thanked her parents. They made their way to the front door. As he left he said, “Same time next week, then?”
“I’ll think about it,” she said.
She went in… and went straight to her laptop.
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