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Word Ways

Journal

2018

Linguistics

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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 51, Issue 4 Nov 2018

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 51, Issue 4

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The front cover and publication information for this issue, including the table of contents.


Reverse Trigrams And Tetragrams, Darryl Francis Nov 2018

Reverse Trigrams And Tetragrams, Darryl Francis

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A list of words that contain sets of trigrams and tetragrams but the letters are in reverse alphabetical order. For example, instead of ABC, the order is CBA.


A Perfect Magic Square, Jeremiah Farrell Nov 2018

A Perfect Magic Square, Jeremiah Farrell

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Sets of magic squares using dominos and playing cards.


Gaffes With Laughs, Don Hauptman Nov 2018

Gaffes With Laughs, Don Hauptman

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A collection of media bloopers.


Poll Pirate, Ron Singer Nov 2018

Poll Pirate, Ron Singer

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A humorous essay on Parrots and parrot speech.


A "Scrambled" Sudoku, Jeremiah Farrell Nov 2018

A "Scrambled" Sudoku, Jeremiah Farrell

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A sudoku puzzle using the word scrambled.


First Names Second - 1, Steve Kahan Nov 2018

First Names Second - 1, Steve Kahan

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A word quiz.


All Words Begin With The Sound Of W, Jerome Tietz Nov 2018

All Words Begin With The Sound Of W, Jerome Tietz

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Every word of this article begins with the sound of W.


Instructions To Authors Nov 2018

Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors for submitting new articles.


Word Ways V.51 No.4 Complete Issue Nov 2018

Word Ways V.51 No.4 Complete Issue

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All of the articles in this issue in one complete document.


Surprisingly Related Synonyms, . Anil Nov 2018

Surprisingly Related Synonyms, . Anil

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Pairs of synonyms that have a common origin or part origin.


And Then Limericks, William Brandt Nov 2018

And Then Limericks, William Brandt

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A collection of limericks.


Alphametics, Steven Kahan Nov 2018

Alphametics, Steven Kahan

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A mathematical game.


Trigrams And Tetragrams Again, Darryl Francis Nov 2018

Trigrams And Tetragrams Again, Darryl Francis

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A new list of words that use three and four consecutive letters of the alphabet.


Colloquy Nov 2018

Colloquy

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A collection of readers' responses to previously published articles.


Puns (Haas Chances Emulation), Robert Haas Nov 2018

Puns (Haas Chances Emulation), Robert Haas

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And now what next? A pun?


Palindrome Selections, Colin Kostelecky Nov 2018

Palindrome Selections, Colin Kostelecky

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A collection of palindromes.


Introducing Sans Forgetica, Darryl Francis Nov 2018

Introducing Sans Forgetica, Darryl Francis

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An announcement of a new font designed to improve retention of written information.


Criticise A Name (Otherwise: Transposing American Cities), Darryl Francis Nov 2018

Criticise A Name (Otherwise: Transposing American Cities), Darryl Francis

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A large listing of transposals for the names of all US cities with populations over 100.000.


An "Inscrutable" Magic Square, Jeremiah Farrell Oct 2018

An "Inscrutable" Magic Square, Jeremiah Farrell

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The "constant" anagrams on every row, column, and all diagonals.


Animal Idioms - 1, Steve Kahan Oct 2018

Animal Idioms - 1, Steve Kahan

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Analyze the sixteen clues presented in the listing that follows to identify the animal idioms which they suggest.


A Martin Gardner Puzzle, Jeremiah Farrell Aug 2018

A Martin Gardner Puzzle, Jeremiah Farrell

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Only the letters of "MARTIN GARDNER" are used in this puzzle and all definitions are transposals of the entries.


Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 51, Issue 3 Aug 2018

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 51, Issue 3

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The front cover and publication information for this issue, including the table of contents.


Return Of The Magnificent Seven - As Palimericks, Tim Heath Aug 2018

Return Of The Magnificent Seven - As Palimericks, Tim Heath

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Palimericks are limericks that are also examples of rhyming, end-to-end palindromes (RETEPs).


Pocketbook Money Keys, Ron Singer Aug 2018

Pocketbook Money Keys, Ron Singer

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A Poem.


Parody Poems, Camille Arnett Aug 2018

Parody Poems, Camille Arnett

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As a class assignment, the author created a series of parody poems inspired by the examples found in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.


5 X 5 Word Squares, Steve Kahan Aug 2018

5 X 5 Word Squares, Steve Kahan

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A set of word square puzzles.


Colloquy Aug 2018

Colloquy

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A collection of readers' responses to previously published articles.


Word Magic Squares, Jeremiah Farrell Aug 2018

Word Magic Squares, Jeremiah Farrell

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Word magic square puzzles formed from one word


Mean Sidewalks, . Anil Aug 2018

Mean Sidewalks, . Anil

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A regular column of miscellaneous items.