I'm still incensed that the Scrabble folks have changed the official rules to allow the playing of proper nouns. Wanna see a good example of a reason why? Here you go:

Under the old rules, there were no three letter words in English that could be built by adding a letter before the word "no". Now, there are at five that I know of:

Ano - a town in Ethiopia
Eno - last name of musician Brian
Ino - a town in Alabama
Ono - an island on the Intracoastal Waterway at the Alabama/Florida border
Uno - Spanish for "one", formerly illegal because it's a foreign word but now presumably legal as the name of a popular card game

Sheesh! We still play by the old rules at my house and anyone who doesn't like it is welcome to bring his own board and set up an alternate game in the kitchen.