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Triangular Progressions, Susan Thorpe May 2009

Triangular Progressions, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Consider the word QUILLS. Arrange the letters, in order, to make a triangle.

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Book Review, Timothy M. Rogers May 2009

Book Review, Timothy M. Rogers

Word Ways

This is a selection from Sé Verla Al Revés, Editorial Praxis, Club Palindromico International, Primera Edición, 2008. It is a collection of palindromes in various languages.

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The New Model Five-Jog Knight, Jim Puder May 2009

The New Model Five-Jog Knight, Jim Puder

Word Ways

Now lumbering into the lists comes the New Model Five-Jog Knight - no, not some odd-gaited Cromwellian cavalryman, but a new, improved, larger, shinier and more complete version of the vanquished old Five-Jog Knight (who now, in the newcomer's brilliance, seems a knight light indeed). As a puzzle, the New Model looks to be an even thornier challenge than its less pointy predecessor, accoutered with no fewer than 16 new pathways (omitted by oversight from the old model) in its network, it boasts nearly twice as many nodes, network segments and total letters.

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Word Squares, Alain Zalmanski, Nicolas Graner May 2009

Word Squares, Alain Zalmanski, Nicolas Graner

Word Ways

A collection of word squares.

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A Poem, Martin Gardner May 2009

A Poem, Martin Gardner

Word Ways

"Riding with Mom"

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Aaddeennoorr, Darryl Francis May 2009

Aaddeennoorr, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

According to Wikipedia: "Dronedarone (also known as SR33589 or Multaq) is a drug under development by Sanofi-Aventis, mainly for the indication of cardiac arrhythmias (irregular heartbeat)."

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Word Worm Maze, Mark J. P. Wolf May 2009

Word Worm Maze, Mark J. P. Wolf

Word Ways

Starting with the "A" in the upper left-hand corner, find a word by moving adjacently letter to letter, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, one letter at a time. When you reach the last letter of the word, move to an adjacent letter and start the next word, and continue doing so until you reach a word ending in "Z" in the lower right-hand corner.

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Kickshaws, David Morice May 2009

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

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A Poem, Martin Gardner May 2009

A Poem, Martin Gardner

Word Ways

"Scribble Scamp"

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Words' Worth: A Review Of Alphabet Juice, Don Hauptman May 2009

Words' Worth: A Review Of Alphabet Juice, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

A new book about language is always cause for rejoicing, especially when it celebrates both the serious and the humorous aspects of words.

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Magic With Bizarre Poems, Martin Gardner May 2009

Magic With Bizarre Poems, Martin Gardner

Word Ways

A strange collection of poems entitled Shadows in the Moonlight, was written and privately printed in Los Angeles in 1927 by T. page Wright, a Hollywood script writer. Wright was a skillful amateur magician who wrote the poems so that the book could be used for performing a feat of mental magic. Each of the 22 poems is so constructed that the nineteenth word is "rose" and the thirty-first word is "love." The book originally sold in magic stores for five dollars, but is now extremely scarce.

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Prefix Meals, Don Hauptman May 2009

Prefix Meals, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

Below, a fresh batch of entertaining mistakes and anomalies followed by witty ripostes - assembled for my book in progress, the working title of which is To "Er ..." is Human. Contributions, to the above address, are welcome.

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Return To Albuquerque, Steve Kahan May 2009

Return To Albuquerque, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

Another trip to Albuquerque, the logological mecca of the Southwest first encountered in Volume 41, Number 1 of Word Ways. Recall that an Albuquerque word contains two separated but identical letter triads. When these are removed and the remaining letters consolidated, what results is called the residue of the original word.

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Punk Whiz 7, A Anil May 2009

Punk Whiz 7, A Anil

Word Ways

Yet another misdefinition pun quiz. Numbers in parentheses are the letters in the answer; (4|5) is a charade, a nine letter word that splits into a four plus five letter pun. My answers are out back.

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Something In The Air, Jim Puder May 2009

Something In The Air, Jim Puder

Word Ways

The following ditties parody the popular songs "Rennies from Heaven," "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" and "Bye, Bye, Blackbird," respectively.

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A Wordy Digression: The Game Of Hipe, Peter Winkler May 2009

A Wordy Digression: The Game Of Hipe, Peter Winkler

Word Ways

In Mathematical Mind-Benders, Peter Winkler. Wellesley, MA: A.K. Peters, 2007. Reprinted by permission of A.K. Peters, Ltd.

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What's In? - A Name! - Part V, Steve Kahan May 2009

What's In? - A Name! - Part V, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

The consolidations in the list below are the result of eradicating four-letter male names from thirty words and closing up any subsequent spaces formed. (Perhaps a more apt title would have been "Four - The Boys"?) Restore as many of these guys as you can to their rightful positions in order to identify the original words. Fear not, however - MENsa membership is not a prerequisite for a successful pursuit of this challenge!

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Awesome Will Be Laid To Rest, Michael Turton May 2009

Awesome Will Be Laid To Rest, Michael Turton

Word Ways

The word awesome was taken off life support today and declared legally dead. The demise of the incomparable word that once caused users to quake when appropriately employing its meaning was announced at a press conference hosted by Thesaurus.net and Dictionary.org.

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Answers And Solutions May 2009

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.

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Instructions To Authors May 2009

Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to the publication.

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Back Cover May 2009

Back Cover

Word Ways

Back cover of the issue, including a puzzle.

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A Poem, Jeremy Morse May 2009

A Poem, Jeremy Morse

Word Ways

"Counting"

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Colloquy May 2009

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of comments and responses to previous articles.

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Reversible Verses, David B. Woodside May 2009

Reversible Verses, David B. Woodside

Word Ways

A collection of palindrome poems.

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A Contrast Of Bilingual And Monolingual Children In Regards To Semantic And Syntactic Language Acquisition, Jessica Michelle Pfister Mar 2009

A Contrast Of Bilingual And Monolingual Children In Regards To Semantic And Syntactic Language Acquisition, Jessica Michelle Pfister

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

Multiple language acquisition has only recently become a heavily researched and focused topic. Many questions have been left unanswered and furthermore, experts in the field are coming to contradicting results and conclusions. The presented thesis investigates the culmination of recent research in this newly developed field, as well as provides feedback from bilingual individuals on their experiences of being bilingual. Through analyzing current studies, the conclusion is made that bilingual children will follow a series of stages in their semantic and syntactic acquisition in which there is a bilingual disadvantage, followed by a bilingual advantage, and lastly a continuous stage …

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Who's Afraid, Oscar Thumpbindle Feb 2009

Who's Afraid, Oscar Thumpbindle

Word Ways

A crossword puzzle.

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Cubic Word Squares, A. Ross Eckler Feb 2009

Cubic Word Squares, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

In a letter dated 16 Mar 2005, Anil proposed constructing word cubes consisting of six word squares, one on each cube face, with edge words shared by squares on adjacent faces. To avoid confusion with the word cubes introduced by Darryl Francis in the Aug 1971 Word Ways, I propose that these structures be called cubic word squares. (Darryl's n-by-n-by-n word cube consists of a set of 3n word squares oriented in three different planes, having a total of 3n2 words.)

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New Word Recreations, Oscar Thumpbindle Feb 2009

New Word Recreations, Oscar Thumpbindle

Word Ways

In the November issue, Jim Puder nicely extended Harold Jacob's "Three Jog Knight" (WW Aug 2008) to a Five-Jog Knight puzzle. Puder and the editor solved the problem and its solution appears in this issue. I wish to extend their results and point out some new puzzles and games that can be performed with their words.

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Inane Addenda, A. Ross Eckler Feb 2009

Inane Addenda, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

The May 1994 Word Ways exhibited a set of sentences constructed by National Public Radio listeners, each using only two consonants. This sequel shows how respondents treated one of the most frequently-chosen combinations.

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Front Cover, Publication Information Feb 2009

Front Cover, Publication Information

Word Ways

Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents

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