Besides being a fairly high scoring play in a game of Scrabble, the word zymurgy also has the distinction of being the final alphabetical entry in a volume of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) that I own. Zymurgy literally is the last word in my dictionary and it can be found on page 1666 (it is, after all, the
concise OED containing a mere 240,000 words). I only discovered this new (to me) word because, having no other particularly pressing engagement at the time, I allowed myself a moment to muse, "I wonder what is the last word in this dictionary." And what exactly is the definition of zymurgy one might ask? The OED's definition is this:
the study or practice of fermentation in brewing, winemaking or distilling. Did not know that, but now I do.
This Scrabble game has been a dramatization: do not try this at home.
