Scrabble letter distributions these 130 tiles. It was An unofficial Japanese Hiragana Scrabble set uses these 100 tiles: The obsolete letters ゐ and ゑ, the letter を now exclusively used as a grammatical particle, and the lengthener ー have no tiles. Words are played in "dictionary format": This version was created by a student from Japan, and is not in wide circulation. A more popular set by Scrabble3D uses these 206 tiles: The obsolete letters "ぇ", "ゐ", "ゑ", "ゎ", "ぃ", "ぁ", "ぅ", and "ぉ", along with the marks "ー", "゛", and " ゜", have no tiles (with the first three letters and the
The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage