I'm pretty sure the implication was that LEZ was indeed in the wordlist: the guy was one of the top players in the world, and these people know their valid words. There was a televised world Scrabble championship of some kind which was notorious for one of the players playing "LEZ" in the final - and the judges quickly ruling it legal in spluttering embarrassment, due to the word's obvious potential to deprave and corrupt youngsters in the viewing audience. (Mind you, I'm English, and the English official Scrabble wordlist is about twice the size of the American, so that could explain it.) "Lez" may or may not be allowed the wordlist Pat had checked, but I'm pretty damn sure that some Scrabble wordlists have it in. (Similarly, where would the game of Scrabble be without QI? Nearly unplayable, that's where.) "Za" is a fairly recent addition to the canon of official Scrabble words - I think it was popularized by the TV show Friends, or something? But it's now kosher, and a very welcome way of being able to quickly play a Z, especially in parts of the word that don't believe me when I tell them that ZO is a type of Himalayan ox. I defy them to find that prohibition in the actual rules! The idea that slang is in some way verboten in Scrabble is mysteriously widespread among casual players I've run across. Slang words are 100% allowed in Scrabble - well, as long as they've been around long enough to have found their way into the dictionary.
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