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Every language its own bag

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A tile bag built for English is wrong for other languages. Spanish needs more A and O; German more E and N. In Vietnamese, NG is a single sound written with two letters, so a Vietnamese bag treats it as one tile.

Counting real text is how each language gets a fair game.

One question

Why would a Vietnamese word-game bag have an NG tile?

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