2 Quazjex!

CHAPTER 2 QUAZJEX?! If you're like most of our readers you're probably wondering what my favourite word in the whole world is. Well, it's Andy, of course! It's the best word with the best letters.

'A is for Awesome, N is for Never-wrong, D is for Dazzling and Y is for—'

'Your turn,' says Terry. 'Please don't interrupt me, Terry,' I say. 'But it's your turn!' Excuse me, readers. As you can see, I'm in the middle of playing a game of Scrabble with Terry. Now

let me see… Hang on, what's that word? 'Quazjex?' I say. 'What's that? That's not a word!' 'Yes it is,' says Terry. 'What does it mean?' I say. 'It means I win,' says Terry. 'Because I used up all my letters and I got 260 points!'

'It means you cheated!' I say. 'There's no such word as quazjex.' 'Yes there is,' says Terry. 'Prove it then,' I say. 'Use it in a sentence.' 'Easy,' says Terry. 'I got a new pet axolotl and its name is Quazjex!'

'That doesn't count,' I say. 'You can't use proper nouns in Scrabble.' 'What about your name?' says Terry. 'That's a proper noun, and you've used it over and over. If you can have Andy, then I can have Quazjex.' 'Andy may be a proper noun,' I say, 'but at least it's a proper proper noun.' 'So is Quazjex,' says Terry. 'Why don't we let the word-o-matic decide?' I say. 'Hey, word-o-matic, is Quazjex a real name?'