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Book Review: May I Have A Word With You?, Karen Farrell

Word Ways

A book review of Steven Kahan's May I Have A Word With You?

When An Ad Becomes A Pipe And Opens A School-Ion Dee-Day, Willy Mwakapenda

Word Ways

Ad

Ad a day

A day and a day

A day

day

When one day closes, another opens

When one day clothes, another wears ...

Punk Whiz 9, A. Anile

Word Ways

Yet another misdefinition pun quiz. Numbers in parentheses are the letters in the answer; (4|4) is a charade, an eight letter word that splits into a four plus four letter pun.

Antigrams From Word Ways: A Retrospective, A. Anil

Word Ways

In the November 2009 Kickshaws, Ove Michaelsen presented a selection of antigrams from various sources, but excluded mention of any from Word Ways. I've presented nearly 200 herein and felt a review of the best of these would give Word Ways due credit and balance out Ove's list. A few of these don't agree grammatically but were apt enough otherwise to forgive and include.

How Many Shiftgrams In A Word-Set?, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

A word possesses a shiftgram if its letters can first be shifted along the alphabet and then transposed to form another word. The classic example MUSIC to QUACK was offered by Alice Gorki and Dimitri Miller in "Sea-Changed Words" in the February 1969 Word Ways.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to some of the puzzles contained in this issue.

Witwits - Part 1, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

A WITWIT is merely an acronym for "Where In The World Is That?," an orthographic challenge that I introduced in May I Have A Word With You?. In the first of this seven-part series, two dozen letter sequences have been extracted, without interruption, from either the beginning, middle, or end of a word. Reinserting each into its proper position at the rate of one per hour, you'll identify the sources of all these sequences in a single day. Moreover, you'll certainly have the last laugh and avoid a fracas provided you recognize that HAHA came from BROUHAHA!

Instructions To Authors, Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute and readers interested in subscribing, as well as the back cover of this issue.

Hospitalisation, Sir Jeremy Morse

Word Ways

A poem

The Broad Ripple Puzzle-Game, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell

Word Ways

As reported in the November issue of Word Ways, Peggy Boulden's class from Indianapolis' Broad Ripple High School recently visited Butler University for a presentation of mathematical word play. In addition to the magic spelling trick described in November we used the nine different letters in BROAD RIPPLE in the following word puzzle.

Synonym Pudding, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Webster's Tenth Collegiate dictionary lists synonyms of headword adjectives in two ways: in small caps in the main definition set, and at the end with the heading syn followed by a group of additional small cap synonyms. Approximately 220 of the headword adjectives merit the syn treatment, and the one thousand synonyms they dissect represent about one-sixth of the headword adjectives.

Shaping Shakespeare, Reflecting History: Adaptations Of Othello For Children In 1990s Britain, Karley Adney

Scholarship and Professional Work of the Provost's Staff

In this article, two 1990s British adaptations of Shakespeare's Othello for children are studied with the primary critical lens of New Historicism. This analysis concerns itself with the cultural resonances adaptors pass to their readers and how those traces shape the Shakespearean texts they adapt. This study contends that cultural contexts, transactions, and negotiations of the time incontestably shape these adaptations. To truly appreciate the choices made by the adaptors of the 1990s, reflections on Britain in the 1980s serve as points of comparison. As a result, analyzing and accounting for the cultural influences provides a whole reading of the …

English Language Learner Academic Engagement And Instructional Grouping Configurations, Kathryn Brooks, Linda P. Thurston

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

This study used and ecobehavioral approach to investigate the conditional probability that English language learning (ELL) students would engage in academic tasks in urban middle school content area classrooms within different instructional grouping configurations. These configurations included whole class, small group, one-to-one, and individual instructions. The participants in the study included 28 native Spanish-speaking students who were all identified as being English language learners (ELL). The findings on this study indicate that participants were most likely to engage in academic tasks during small group and one-to-one instruction. They were least likely to engage in academic tasks during whole class and …

Orwellian Language And The Politics Of Tribal Termination (1953-1960), Casey R. Kelly

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

From 1953 to 1960, the federal government terminated sovereign recognition for 109 American Indian nations. Termination was a haphazard policy of assimilation that had disastrous consequences for Indian land and culture. Nonetheless, termination cloaked latent motivations for Indian land within individual rights rhetoric that was at odds with Indian sovereignty. Termination highlights the rhetorical features of social control under capitalism portrayed in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), in which opposing principles are fused and inverted. This essay critiques termination’s Orwellian language to show how ideographs of social liberation are refashioned by the state to subvert Indian sovereignty and popular dissent.

Cover Puzzle, Jeremiah Farrell

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Crossword Puzzle featured on the cover of "The Playful Brian: The Surprising Science of How Puzzles Improve your Mind".

Reading The Story Of Miriai On Two Levels: Evidence From Mandaean Anti-Jewish Polemic About The Origins And Setting Of Early Mandaeism, James F. Mcgrath

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

New Testament scholars, drawing on Mandaean sources to shed light on the Gospel of John, may have done more harm than good to both Johannine and Mandaean studies. Nonetheless, approaches to the Gospel of John developed over the past 50 years have shed light on the Gospel’s Jewish context and the clues its polemical emphases can provide about the time and setting in which it was written. J. L. Martyn’s suggestion that the Gospel of John can be read on “two levels”, telling us about the context in which it was written while telling a story set in the time …

Self-Indulgence Is The American Word For Flair, Ania Spyra

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

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Emotional Intelligence, Motivational Orientations, And Motivational Learning Effort And Achievement In Spanish As A Foreign Language, Juan Rodríguez Prieto

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

No abstract provided.

Vidyaranya Swami's "Pañca Viveka" And Thomas Aquinas' "Quinque Viae" In The Light Of Today's Science, Klaus K. Klostermaier

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

In the context of recent attempts to shore up atheism with philosophical and scientific arguments the construction of rational proofs for the existence of God is receiving renewed attention. Over against the assertion of some scientists that religious belief is both unscientific and irrational, philosophers and theologians argue that the study of nature itself offers a great deal of evidence for the existence of a Creator. They are supported by numerous reputable scientists, the authors of book titles like The Language of God or The Mind of God and many others. it is noteworthy that Google has over two million …

A Report On The "Sri Iesu Sahasranama" Of K. U. Chacko, Francis X. Clooney

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

In 1987 K.U. Chacko, a Professor of Sanskrit at Nirmala College in Muvattupuzha in Kerala, published in a small booklet the Sri Iesu Sahasranama, a thousand names of Jesus in Sanskrit, written down in Malyalam script; in 1995 it was reprinted in Devanagari script. The cover indicates that it was edited by Professor M H. Sastri.

Book Review: "South Asian Christian Diaspora", Catherine Cornille

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

A review of South Asian Christian Diaspora edited by Knut Jacobsen and Selva Raj.

Hardscrabble By Kevin Mcfadden, University Of Georgia Press, 2008, Chris Bungard

LAS Faculty Book Reviews

No abstract provided.

Kickshaws, Dave Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Front Cover, Table Of Contents

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Front Cover, Publication Information, and Table of Contents

A Poem: Natural Order, Jeremy Morse

Word Ways

A poem

Trading Places, Richard Lederer, Norm Storer

Word Ways

A number of words become new words when, contemporaneously, the front letter is looped to the back and the back to the front. The first and last letters must be different, of course, and the result of this double loop is that the first and last letters are exchanged. If the middle letters are palindromic, the pair becomes palindromic.

Front Cover, Table Of Contents

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Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents

Ten-Letter Triangular Progressions, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

In the May 2009 Word Ways, Susan Thorpe introduced the concept of a triangular progression. Partition a six-letter word into groups of one, two and three letters. Calculate the numerical value of each group, and determine the difference between groups two and one, and three and two. The object is to find words for which the differences are constant.

Back To Albuquerque Again, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

Our third visit to Albuquerque offers a new collection of words named in honor of the city. Each contains a pair of identical letter triads that are separated by at least one other letter. After their excision, any gaps that have been created are closed by compression in order to form the residue of the original word. Said residues, found in Column A, require the reintroduction of appropriately placed triads found in Column B in order to reestablish the original Albuquerque word. As has become customary, five impostors are included in Column B, since each triad is available for use …

Shepherdesses, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

The 2-letter word MO can be extended by one letter at a time up to the 9-letter MODERNEST, with all combinations being allowable words in international Scrabble: MO, MOD, MODE, MODER, MODERN, MODERNE, MODERNES, MODERNEST. Seven of these are found in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, 2006. The exception is MODER, a layer of humus intermediate between mor and mull (Chambers Dictionary, 1998).