letters for thought...

so i was watching the us open tonight, a match between james blake and novak djokovic. after staring at their names for two hours, i thought, "damn, djoker (as i affectionately call him), your name would be kick ass in scrabble! it's so full of interesting letters!"

which led me to ask, what makes a letter interesting? is it simply it's rarity of use? i don't feel like k is a particularly underused letter, especially in internet speak, and yet i find it rather appealing. perhaps it's the multitude of angles. maybe it's having angles at all, because v, w, z and x are certainly all interesting. though of course, they are pretty rarely used.

q of course is at the top of the list, simply because it requires the presence of u. expect for qatar! and probably some physics words.

y isn't particularly interesting, but when found in the middle of a word, often seems intriguing. see: scythe, stylus, psyche, etc.

so i dunno. perhaps it's just the foreign-ness of djokovic's name, the silent d, the double v's. all i know for sure is that his name is worth at least 37 points in scrabble, which is nothing to scoff at.