Magnetic Fields Frontman (and Scrabble Nut) Stephin Merritt Schools You on How to Rock at the Word Game — billboard.com

Stephin Merritt has a way with words, and not just because he’s the lead singer of acclaimed indie-pop band The Magnetic Fields. A Scrabble nut, Merritt, 49, has a new book of poems, 101 Two Letter Words (W.W. Norton & Company), to help you memorize each of the two-letter words in The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary -- from easy (hi) to obscure (xu). Merritt shares what he's learned from his adventures in wordplay.

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