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Punk Whiz 13, A. Anil
Punk Whiz 13, A. Anil
Word Ways
Another Pun Quiz of misdefinitions, which usually also hint at the actual meanings. In parentheses are the letters in the answer: (5|4) is a charade, a nine letter word that splits into a five plus four letter pun. My answers are out back.
A Poem, Martin Gardner
The Alphanumeric Properties Of Hyperpolygraphemic Oligosyllables, T.A. Hall
The Alphanumeric Properties Of Hyperpolygraphemic Oligosyllables, T.A. Hall
Word Ways
In a recent article in this journal (Word Ways, August 2003), Hugo Brandt Corstius examines the connection between the number of letters in a word and the number of syllables it contains. Basing his observations on Dutch, he coins the term 'oligosyllabic', which he defines as a word in which the number of letters is more than four times greater than the number of its syllables.
Scrabble-Tile Double Word Squares And Rectangles, Mike Keith
Scrabble-Tile Double Word Squares And Rectangles, Mike Keith
Word Ways
What is the largest double word square or rectangle (containing a different English word in each row and column) that can be formed from the 98 non-blank Scrabble tiles? The purpose of this article is explore, and give the answers to, questions like this in which the common word-play form of the word rectangle is constrained by the number of tiles of each letter available in the game of Scrabble.
A Magic Tour, Jeremiah Farrell
A Magic Tour, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
The map depicts a tour of several U.S. cities and it turns out to have a curious magical property. We invite the reader to join the magic tour at any city of his or her choice. Starting with your chosen city, spell the name of that city counterclockwise along the tour until you arrive at a city to spend the night.
Pseudoantonyms, A. Anil
Pseudoantonyms, A. Anil
Word Ways
Pseudoantonyms or contrantonyms are pairs of apparent antonyms that instead are synonyms of sorts. The two forms must be able to be the same part of speech. For example, tied up and tied down by the Lilliputians. Pseudoanyonyms are not to be confused with Susan Thorpe's double negative Pseudo-opposites in the November 2010 Kickshaws.
Teaching Lexicography And Lexicology Among The Aliterates, John Taylor
Teaching Lexicography And Lexicology Among The Aliterates, John Taylor
Word Ways
As I pondered how to frame the topic announced in the title of this paper, I realized that first of all I had to embark on a journey of intellectual archaeology. In the nine different courses I regularly teach, in composition, literature, and linguistics courses alike, I emphasize the use of a desk dictionary as a curricular survival tool, especially in this current mania of standardized testing. When exactly did I begin to have my deep, abiding passion for dictionaries and how did that influence the development of my career as a professor of English and applied English Linguistics? For …
Numerical Charades Part 4, Susan Thorpe
Numerical Charades Part 4, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Numerical Charades Part 4 introduces a new type of numerical tautonym. The letters of the word TABLE, for example, assigned their alphabetical values (a=1, b=2 ... z=26), make 20.1.2.12.5. By splitting TABLE into two parts, specifically TA and BLE, and using the 2 functions + and -, T-A=19 and B+L+E also =19, making TA.BLE a numerical tautonym represented by 19.19. The words listed below use 2 or more of the four functions + - x ÷ and parentheses where necessary. A particular function can be used any number of times. A word can be split at any point along …
English Learner Oral Language Production In Middle School Academic Classes, Kathryn Brooks
English Learner Oral Language Production In Middle School Academic Classes, Kathryn Brooks
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
Because of current federal and state educational policies, oral language development is an often overlooked aspect of language and literacy use and development of English Learning (EL) students in K-12 schools in the United States. This article describes a study in which a researcher used an ecobehavioral approach to investigate the conditional probability that young adolescent EL students would produce language in content area classes as they engaged in four different instructional grouping configurations: whole class, small group, one-to-one, and individual instruction. Significant differences emerged between instructional grouping configurations in terms of EL student production of oral academic language. Overall, …
Assisted Reading With Digital Audiobooks For Students With Reading Disabilities, Kelli J. Esteves, Elizabeth Whitten
Assisted Reading With Digital Audiobooks For Students With Reading Disabilities, Kelli J. Esteves, Elizabeth Whitten
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
The goal of this study was to compare the efficacy of assisted reading with digital audiobooks with the traditional practice of sustained silent reading (SSR) in terms of reading fluency and reading attitude with upper elementary students with reading disabilities. Treatment group participants selected authentic children’s literature and engaged in assisted reading with digital audiobooks four to five times per week over an eight-week implementation period. Results showed that while all students demonstrated growth in reading fluency as calculated by words read correctly per minute, the growth of the treatment group far outweighed that of the control group. There was …
Affective Labor And Governmental Policy: George W. Bush's New Freedom Commission On Mental Health, Kristin A. Swenson
Affective Labor And Governmental Policy: George W. Bush's New Freedom Commission On Mental Health, Kristin A. Swenson
Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication
As affective labor is becoming more dominant in contemporary capitalism, the affect of the body politic is increasingly important. This article argues for a theory of the affective state apparatus to account for the state‟s role in governing the affect of the population. An analysis of George W. Bush‟s Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America reveals that an affective state apparatus functions to capture, constitute, and circulate the affects of the population. This article contends that an affective state apparatus operates through the very intimacies of our bodies in order to produce ever more efficient and productive …
Visual Rhetoric And The Promotion Of Scientific Ideas: The Strange Case Of The Prion, Carol Reeves
Visual Rhetoric And The Promotion Of Scientific Ideas: The Strange Case Of The Prion, Carol Reeves
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
In the field that investigates infectious brain diseases such as mad cow disease, the verbal and visual packaging of scientific visuals associated with identifying the agent, prion, its processes, and structure served the community ritual of establishing belief in a highly unorthodox phenomenon. Visual promotion fed into cultural expectations of single agents and simple processes, even though the actual agency and disease process have proven highly complex and perhaps unknowable.
Robots, Rights And Religion, James F. Mcgrath
Robots, Rights And Religion, James F. Mcgrath
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
If there is one area in which science fiction has failed to quickly become historical fact, it is in the field of artificial intelligence (A.I.). While some continue to prophesy that machine minds that are indistinguishable from human ones are just around the corner, many others in the field have become far more skeptical. All the while, there have been at least a few who have consistently found the whole idea problematic for reasons unrelated to our technical abilities, in particular the implications A.I. seems to have for our understanding of human personhood. For example, in his 1993 book The …
Language, Geography, Globalization: Susana Chavez-Silverman’S Rejection Of Translation In Killer Crónicas: Bilingual Memories, Ania Spyra
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
The ephemerality of Susana Chavez-Silverman's desires for a very specific scent, remembered well although smelt only once on a stranger in passing, meets the disappointment of the un-searched for, the inauthentic, the reality of cheap cologne. Maybe precisely for its lack of fulfillment the search remains a quest, and the latter term does not seem too exaggerated for as frivolous a search as this one, because it functions as a metaphor for many other searches.
Boundary Work: An Interpretive Ethnographic Perspective On Negotiating And Leveraging Cross-Cultural Identity, Noriko Yagi, Jill Kleinberg
Boundary Work: An Interpretive Ethnographic Perspective On Negotiating And Leveraging Cross-Cultural Identity, Noriko Yagi, Jill Kleinberg
Scholarship and Professional Work - Business
The complexity of global organizations highlights the importance of members’ ability to span diverse boundaries that may be defined by organization structures, national borders, and/or a variety of cultures associated with organization, nation-based societal and work cultures, industries, and/or professions. Based on ethnographic research in a Japan–US binational firm, the paper describes and analyzes the boundary role performance of the firm's Japanese members. It contributes toward theory on boundary spanning by introducing a “cultural identity negotiation” conceptual framework. We show boundary spanning as a process shaped through the interplay of the contextual issues that make a boundary problematic; an individual's …
Look Back!, A. Ross Eckler
Look Back!, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
In the August 1986 Word Ways, Willard Espy presented a clever poem with its modus operandi explained in the last three lines.
Front Cover And Publication Information
Front Cover And Publication Information
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue, including a table of contents.
Sherlockiana, Dana Richards
Sherlockiana, Dana Richards
Word Ways
Word Puzzles selected from "Victorian Engimas and Sherlockian Puzzles" by the author.
A Christmas Wish, Simon Nightingale, Bridget Nightingale
A Poem, J. James Mancuso
Deep Acrostics, A. Anil
Deep Acrostics, A. Anil
Word Ways
Acronyms use the first letter of each word of a name. Diacronyms instead use the first two letters of names. While not yet called that, they featured in "Short People" in the November issue. Diacrostics are diacronyms of whole sentences. Unlike aconyms, which usually have to be defined and memorised, diacrostics may be -- and triacrostics often are -- directly readable, especially if the context is known, the language is simple, or the sentence is a familiar quotation.
Magic In Six Dimensions, Jeremiah Farrell
Magic In Six Dimensions, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
A royal flush in poker consists of the ace, king, queen, jack and ten, all in the same suit. Our magic begins by having the spectator choose one of the cards in any of the four royal flushes. This choice could be by random draw or the spectator can merely think of one of the 20 cards. In either case he does not inform the magician of his choice but will write it on a slip of paper for future reference.
Flagging Spirits, Ronnie B. Kon
Flagging Spirits, Ronnie B. Kon
Word Ways
In the February 2010 Look Back! column, Ross Eckler renews his wife Faith's request from the August 1981 Kickshaws for an answer to a riddle from a 1831 British publication. He notes that a year's subscription to Word Ways was offered for the solution, but that it went unclaimed. Apropos of nothing, one wonders whether that means that the offer is still open.
Martin Gardner Et La Poesie, Alain Zalmanski
Martin Gardner Et La Poesie, Alain Zalmanski
Word Ways
Celebration of Mind: Gathering for Gardner
Arbitrary Words, Susan Thorpe
Arbitrary Words, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
This is a sequel to Unusual Words (Word Ways 2008145) which examines words with single like letters having different pronunciations, thus being represented by different phonetic symbols. Arbitrary Words looks at words with two like bigrams which have different pronunciations and different phonetic symbols. ARBITRARY is one such word, the first AR being pronounced as the A in bath, but the second AR as the AR in arise. Words in which one of the two bigram letters is represented by the same phonetic symbol in both bigrams are not included.
Name Categories, Lacey Echols
Name Categories, Lacey Echols
Word Ways
To begin, write your last name across the top of the grid. You should have enough columns for each letter in your name. For each category in the left column, fill in the cells with a word beginning with the letter in the top row. If duplicate letters appear in the top row, then you should think of two different words for that category. Additional categories could be added or exchanged for the ones below.
Punk Whiz 12, A. Anil
Punk Whiz 12, A. Anil
Word Ways
Another Pun Quiz. The misdefinitions usually also hint at the actual meanings, as in cryptic crosswords.
Dictionary Of American Regional English: Some Transposals, Darryl Francis
Dictionary Of American Regional English: Some Transposals, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
When the American Dialect Society (ADS) was founded in 1889, one of the major goals of its charger members was to do for the United States what Joseph Wright was doing for England in compiling his English Dialect Dictionary. But of course the task of making a dictionary of the dialects of the United States was going to be a lot bigger because of the size of the country. So the Society began by publishing word lists made by professors who jotted down unfamiliar terms or expressions as they visited places new to them. For decades, lists were published …