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Websterisms: In Search Of Noah's Headwords, Arthur Schulman
Websterisms: In Search Of Noah's Headwords, Arthur Schulman
Word Ways
Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) is a browser's paradise, revealing many words whose meaning has changed since Noah's time and others that lie idiosyncratically defined. I offer fifty of Webster's definitions below, and challenge the reader to guess the headwords that Webster was trying to define. To make the task more approachable, wordlengths are provided for the to-be-discovered headwords, which are listed in alphabetical order of their appearance in the dictionary. All of these headwords, if not Webster's definitions, should prove to be familiar to readers of Word Ways.
Knight's Challenge Answered, Jim Puder
Knight's Challenge Answered, Jim Puder
Word Ways
Only one solution was received for the Five-Jog Knight puzzle contest posed in the November Word Ways. Submitted in mid-December, editor Jeremiah Farrell's solution managed to achieve a 20/20 Collegiate score, which is to say that every word in its 20-word word set is an entry in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. Such perfection had not been expected.
Tense Exchanges, Susan Thorpe
Tense Exchanges, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Tense exchanges occur when the past and present tenses of the same verb lock on to, or interlock with, another letter or letters to make two other words. Thus FALL and FELL appear in FALLOW and FELLOW, locked on to -OW; RUN and RAN appear in RUIN and RAIN, interlocked with -I. The tenses always appear in the same position(s) in the two words.
What Now? Not "Wow!": New Spoonerisms, Don Hauptman
What Now? Not "Wow!": New Spoonerisms, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
Each August, cartoonist Jim Siergey and I collaborate on a collection of illustrated spoonerisms for Word Ways. Invariably, however, I have more specimens than space allows. And some don't readily lend themselves to visualization, requiring instead a verbal setup or a narrative or shaggy-dog-story form. Here then is a fresh batch, along with a few examples - that, to be strictly accurate, are not spoonerisms but word reversals.
Kickshaws, David Morice
Kickshaws, David Morice
Word Ways
Readers are encouraged to send their favorite linguistic kickshaws to the Kickshaws editor at [email protected]. Answers can be found in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue.
Octopi, Michael Keith, Diana Keith
Octopi, Michael Keith, Diana Keith
Word Ways
The composition of the poem below was governed by one major and a couple minor lexical constraints. Can you discover the rules behind it?
A Poem, Martin Gardner
A Poem, Martin Gardner
Word Ways
This is an excerpt from Gardner's 1969 book Never Make Fun Of A Turtle, My Son (Simon and Schuster, illustrated by John Alcorn).
Properties Of Sequences, Simon Norton
Properties Of Sequences, Simon Norton
Word Ways
Anil (WW 41 (2) p223) asks whether there is a theory which explains how the periodic behaviour of Fibconacci letter-sequences works. The answer is yes, there is indeed such a theory, and it has many other applications, both mathematical and practical. Though this theory has nothing to do with words, I hope that readers will he interested in its results. However, most of the proofs will be beyond the scope of this article.
A Poem, Martin Gardner
A Poem, Martin Gardner
Word Ways
This is an excerpt from Gardner's 1969 book Never Make Fun Of A Turtle, My Son (Simon and Schuster, illustrated by John Alcorn).
An Amazing Spelling Trick, Martin Gardner
An Amazing Spelling Trick, Martin Gardner
Word Ways
One of the most mysterious of all spelling tricks with cards, not well known today even to magicians, was invented by the American magician Howard Adams. He published it in his now rare 1984 booklet with the strange title OICUFESP (Oh, I see you have ESP). Since then it has appeared with slight variations in several others books. I urge you to get a deck of cards and astonish yourself by following these instructions.
Shiftgrams Again, Darryl Francis
Shiftgrams Again, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
The November 2002 Word Ways ran an article of mine entitled Shiftgrams Revisited. In that article, I explored the concept of shiftgrams, and presented examples of shiftgrams for various logical groups of words.
A Pseudo-History Of Alphabetical Characters, A. Anil
A Pseudo-History Of Alphabetical Characters, A. Anil
Word Ways
These are naivist, intuitive pictograph theories of whence ow alphabet got into the shape it's in today, based on what today's letters look like. Try you head at imagining pseudo-credible origins for them, freely allowing anachronisms. With luck, you won't get arrested for it. And with my examples as standards, you can't possibly embarrass yourself.
Five Language Beauties, Joop Van Der Vart
Five Language Beauties, Joop Van Der Vart
Word Ways
Interesting phrases in various languages.
Crostic Puzzle, Julie Sussman
Hello And Goodbye, A. Anil
Hello And Goodbye, A. Anil
Word Ways
This is the title of a game in Word Games by Ken Russell and Philip Carter (Foulsham, 2000; p.130) that involves the matching of greetings or farewells to apt people, eg, by profession.
Punk Quiz 6, A. Anil
A Bouquet For Gardner, Jeremiah Farrell, Thomas Rodgers
A Bouquet For Gardner, Jeremiah Farrell, Thomas Rodgers
Word Ways
Our tribute bouquet starts with several PELARGONIUMS: all but two of which are red, all but two of which are yellow, and all but two of which are green. The reader should be able to determine from this information just how many flowers are in our main bouquet.
What's In? - A Name! - Part Iv, Steve Kahan
What's In? - A Name! - Part Iv, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
The fourth chapter in this continuing saga epitomizes the maxim that variety is the spice of life. Presented below are forty new word compressions resulting from the deletion of a person's name. This time, in addition to evenly distributing the genders of these individuals, the lengths of their names are not supplied.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
Back Cover, Oscar Thumpbindle
Instructions To Authors, Subscribers
Instructions To Authors, Subscribers
Word Ways
Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to the publication and readers wishing to subscribe to the publication.
A Poem, Martin Gardner
A Poem, Martin Gardner
Word Ways
This is an excerpt from Gardner's 1969 book Never Make Fun Of A Turtle, My Son (Simon and Schuster, illustrated by John Alcorn).
Banking On Privacy, Dick Wolfsie
Banking On Privacy, Dick Wolfsie
Word Ways
What is the name of your favorite cartoon character?
Did that stump you for a moment? Are you teetering between Bart Simpson and Barney Rubble? If you are from my generation you might be torn between Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
Two Knights A-Jog, Jim Puder
Two Knights A-Jog, Jim Puder
Word Ways
On a 7 x 7 chessboard, a knight moves from the central square in the bottom row to the central square in the top two row in four jumps. There are a number of different routes it can take, and in his article "Three Jog Knight" in the August Word Ways, Harold Jacobs wondered whether readers could mentally envision the composite network formed by all of these routes without having to draw a picture of it.
How To Logologically Select The Vice-President, A. Ross Eckler
How To Logologically Select The Vice-President, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Presidential candidates use various criteria to select their running mates; usually, they pick ones who supposedly offset their political weaknesses. However, logological compatibility is never considered. It is the purpose of this article to remedy this omission.
Obama And Mccain Cross Words, A. Ross Eckler
Obama And Mccain Cross Words, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Many cross words are exchanged by the two presidential candidates and their adherents during an electoral campaign, and 2008 has been no exception. However, this is no documentation of their billingsgate, but instead a presentation of crossed words. OBAMA and MCCAIN form a cross in a five by six word rectangle.
More Distinct Dozens And Then Some, Steve Kahan
More Distinct Dozens And Then Some, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
As introduced in Volume 40, Number 2 of Word Ways, a "distinct dozen" is a twelve-letter word in which no single letter appears more than once. Herein are eight new distinct dozens, accompanied by eight distinct baker's dozens - thirteen-letter words with the same property. As an additional challenge, one fourteen-letter and one fifteen-letter member of the genre have also been included.
Still More Consecutive Palindromic Triads, Steve Kahan
Still More Consecutive Palindromic Triads, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
Another dip into the pool of consecutive palindromic triads! As in the previous two offerings in this genre (Word Ways, Volume 40, Numbers 3 and 4), you are faced with a restoration project. Using each of the fifty consecutive palindromic triads presented in the triad pool once and only once, construct a word, phrase or name by placing two of them back-to-back into the compressions listed below.
Odes From The Odd Topics Society, Howard G. Baetzhold
Odes From The Odd Topics Society, Howard G. Baetzhold
Word Ways
Butler's Odd Topics Society meets every now and then to discuss Odd Topics of any nature. Professor Baetzhold is the Poet Laureate Odd Topics Society.