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Photo of Eddie Izzard One thing was huge before language and that was Scrabble. Cause Scrabble, after language, it became about words. Before language, it was just, Put the letters down. There were no rules. Everyone was a winner. K, T... FUNGTABL-SKLINGDUNG. Seventy-six. ASTINGBOXISCRANKEZANGGA. That's one hundred and five. It's a triple word. Dang. Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. This is true. They proved this one. The word dyslexia was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. What's the point of coming up with a word like dyslexia to explain a word-blindness spelling problem. They have a problem with the words. It is a difficult thing. We've called this problem... ISSGINVISTASCASCAL INVIDEENDEN DANGALL ANNGLL WOOLLL. Car twenty two, pick-up.. It has seventeen silent letters and the face of a rat in it. Just call it BONK. They suffer from bonk. They have a word-blindness. We call it bonk. Excuse me, miss, I've got bonk. "All right. All right, just chew something at the corner of the class." All right. I would have preferred that to sitting there and spelling colour with a K. I did fantastic I-Spy It was brilliant for I-Spy I-Spy with an S for ceiling. It went on for hours. Till my brother was throttling me. S. Ceiling. Ceilings not with an S. Of course it is!