ENGLAND: Lolz, shizzle, and cakehole are among 6,500 words added to the existing quarter of a million in the latest Collins Scrabble word list.

Icy, snow-covered roads and high winds have made travel treacherous from the Dakotas to Michigan and Missouri as much of the US prepared for dangerously cold temperatures that could break records.

A MASSIVE winter storm dumped snow, ice and sleet across a huge swathe of the US yesterday, grounding thousands of flights, and bringing a wintry blast to 100 million people, or a third of the country.

Another snowstorm pummelled parts of the American West, snarling post-holiday traffic, darkening lights on Christmas trees, and covering some Midwest highways with a dangerous sheet of ice.

Lumber from obliterated buildings was scattered among corn stalks, concrete foundations were exposed where houses once stood and silos were crushed like empty aluminium cans after deadly storms swept across America’s northern Plains with twisters and large hail.