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Consecutive Palindromic Triads, Steve Kahan
Consecutive Palindromic Triads, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
Each of the twenty five examples below is a familiar word, phrase, or name from which a pair of consecutive palindromic triads have been removed. The remaining letters are then run together.
Degaraged, Depiped, And Derotored, Jeff Grant
Degaraged, Depiped, And Derotored, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
There are lots of palindromic words that start with de- and end -ed. Here are some short ones listed in The Palindromicon II (Jeff Grant and Dan Tilque, Word Ways Monograph Series 6, 2002).
Spoonertoons 4: Fortune Of Reversal, Don Hauptman
Spoonertoons 4: Fortune Of Reversal, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
Cartoons incorporating spoonerisms.
Modern Sator Squares, Jeff Grant
Modern Sator Squares, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
Many word-lovers are familiar with the famous Latin square shown above. It probably dates from Roman times and has been the subject of much discussion over the years. The main problem with interpretation is the word AREPO, which is supposedly unknown to Latin scholars. As a result, it is usually treated as a coined personal name. According to master logologist Dmitri Borgmann in Language On Vacation (1965), the palindromic message, 'Sator Arepo tenet opera rotas', can be rendered as: 'Arepo, the sower, holds the wheels at work', or more elaborately: 'The reaper shall cease from his toil as the mower …
Generic Edges, Susan Thorpe
Generic Edges, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
The letters of a word can be displayed as one of a number of different geometrical forms - a triangle, pentagon or rhombus etc. - in the order in which they occur in the word. In Edge Words (WW98274), I arranged the letters of words thus, in order to create 'edge words', words made by the letters along the left (L) and right (R) hand edges of the particular geometrical form, reading from the top downwards. More recently, in Upwards Edge Words (WW2006235) I repeated the exercise to find edge words which read upwards.
Now I am searching for L …
My Visit To Grant's Tome, Lacey Echols
My Visit To Grant's Tome, Lacey Echols
Word Ways
It started as a simple mathematical problem discovered in the book 365 Exercises for the Mind, by Pierre Berloquin.
Find seven words which appear consecutively in the given word industrialization. The solution to the problem identifies the seven words as in, dust, trial, at, on, rial, and ion.
Limerickshaws, Dave Morice
Limerickshaws, Dave Morice
Word Ways
This Kickshaws Special celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 1907 British Limerick Craze, and what better way to celebrate it than to present 100 limericks, one for each year? The limerick count includes each 5-line limerick, whether it stands alone or serves as a stanza in a longer poem. It does not include the older limericks quoted in the essays or the partial limericks in which one or more lines are left out on purpose for special effects.
The Alert Boss And Fair Clerk, Anil
The Alert Boss And Fair Clerk, Anil
Word Ways
My tribute to the Ecklers in February (07-9) was a real rush job with about one day's notice. I'd now like to extend that tribute with an unusually fitting logological twist. The title above is an anagram of the names ALBERT ROSS AND FAITH ECKLER.
Spoonergrams, Jim Puder
Spoonergrams, Jim Puder
Word Ways
Spoonerisms are usually thought of as involving the switch of initial sounds in a pair of words, as in prairie schooner/scary pruner. But as Susan Thorpe points out in her article "Spooneristic Variations" in the May 2007 Word Ways, there is no reason why a spoonerism cannot involve three or more words.
Cartoon, Jed Martinez
Phone Messages, Steve Kahan
Phone Messages, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
The rotary telephone dial provides a one-to-three correspondence between the integers 2 through 9 inclusive and twenty-four of the letters of the English alphabet.
Compass Point Sudokus, Christopher Mcmanus
Compass Point Sudokus, Christopher Mcmanus
Word Ways
A recent Word Ways article, "Sudoku Patterns" (May 2007), explored aspects of sudoku squares which employ letters instead of numbers. One highlighted aspect of the article was theme sudokus. Two examples of theme sudokus were puzzles in which various number names were hidden.
Word Tiling, Chris Cook
Word Tiling, Chris Cook
Word Ways
RAM is a triangular tile of size n=1. It has three "lines" RA, MR, and AM.
A Crossword Puzzle Square, Joseph Teeters
A Crossword Puzzle Square, Joseph Teeters
Word Ways
This 11x11 "word" square sometimes uses phrases, crossword style, rather than full words only. Perhaps readers can generate other examples. The definitions also work for the down entries of course, and we would welcome large squares, with no blacks, that had different words going down than across.
Near-Heterogrammatic Double 5-Squares, Rex Gooch
Near-Heterogrammatic Double 5-Squares, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
In 2006-176, Ross Eckler stated that a heterogrammatic 5-square is impossible to achieve, referring I believe to double squares, but without giving a reason. In the May 1979 Colloquy (following an earlier effort February 1978), Jeff Grant had presented a double 5-square with 22 different letters, all ten words being in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Symmetries Of The Alphabet, A. Ross Eckler
Symmetries Of The Alphabet, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The letters of the alphabet exhibit five varieties of symmetry (or non-symmetry):
A M T U V W Y have left-right (vertical) symmetry (.272) v
B C D E K have up-down (horizontal) symmetry (.218) h
N S Z have 180 degree (rotational) symmetry (.137) r
H I O X have all three symmetries (.205) a
F G J L P Q R have no symmetry (.168) n
Pros And Cons, Anil
Pros And Cons, Anil
Word Ways
"For every pro there's an equal and opposite con," goes an old joke I just made up. Only it's not true, surprisingly. I found only one pro/con pair in the Macquarie Dictionary (4th, 2005) that were common opposites, protract and contract. But not protractor and contractor in their usual meanings. (For vs. against tractors?) Protest and contest can be opposites, to stretch a point, eg at a politically or morally controversial game. But more commonly they are synonyms: to argue with the umpire. Lastly, might we count the old gag opposites, progress and Congress?
A Perfect Word, Anil
A Perfect Word, Anil
Word Ways
Perfect numbers (PNs) are integers whose factors sum to the number, like 6 (=1+2+3). Euclid gave a formula for finding them: if 2n - 1 is prime then 2n - 1(2n - 1) is a PN. There are only five PNs below ten billion: 6, 28, 496, 8128 and 33,550,336.
Distinct Dozens, Steve Kahan
Distinct Dozens, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
RECOGNIZABLY is a "distinct dozen" - a twelve-letter word in which no letter appears more than once. Twenty more distinct dozens are presented below, each of which has its vowels (A, E, I, O, and/or U) exposed. Can you fill in the missing consonants?
Consecutive Palindromic Triads, Steve Kahan
Consecutive Palindromic Triads, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
Each of the twenty five examples below is a familiar word, phrase, or name from which a pair of consecutive palindromic triads have been removed. The remaining letters are then run together.
Signature Spoonerisms, Anil
Signature Spoonerisms, Anil
Word Ways
Signature Spoonerisms resemble signature puns, introduced in November (06-22, qv). Swap the initial sound(s) of the first and last names (or part names) of a well known person to produce a homophonic pun applicable to the person, however general.
Satanix, Darryl Francis
Satanix, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Ross Eckler's article Word Networks on Wordlock (November 2006 Word Ways) was about a combination lock that uses five rings of letters, instead of numbers. This reminded me of a similar device which I have, a plastic toy called Satanix, but without the lock capability.
"When I Hear The Word 'Culture,' I Reach For My Pun!", Don Hauptman
"When I Hear The Word 'Culture,' I Reach For My Pun!", Don Hauptman
Word Ways
Contrary to popular belief, puns are not all bad. Indeed, they can be intelligent, literate and witty. But a high-quality pun must meet several criteria. The best ones are: (1) original, (2) ingenious, (3) natural and meaningful rather than contrived or labored, and, of course, (4) funny.
Honorable Mentions, Jim Puder
Honorable Mentions, Jim Puder
Word Ways
It would obviously be hard to overstate the impact that Word Ways has had on the development of the field that it named, recreational linguistics, over the last four decades. So much of lasting interest and value has appeared on these pages that would never even have been thought of, much less published, had Word Ways' open forum not existed over that span to stimulate and encourage such thought.
Return Of The Palimerick, Jim Puder
Return Of The Palimerick, Jim Puder
Word Ways
In the February 2007 Kickshaws, Dave Morice presented what was probably an entirely new logological object, a limerick of his own devising which was also an end-to-end word-unit palindrome. Dave further wondered whether it would be possible to compose a letter-unit version of such a palindromical limerick.
Subwords: A Subdivision Of Neologistics, Anil
Subwords: A Subdivision Of Neologistics, Anil
Word Ways
Subwords are needed terms branched off or evolved from real words or phrases through mutation or hybridisation, in the spirit of Ross Eckler's "We Need a Word for This!" in the May 2006 issue (p. 75). I tried for two of each letter but fell two short (of space).
Logological Enlightenment, Anil
Logological Enlightenment, Anil
Word Ways
How many logologists does it take to change a light bulb?
Using Mathematical Parentheses In English, Solomon W. Golomb
Using Mathematical Parentheses In English, Solomon W. Golomb
Word Ways
Parentheses are used in mathematics to indicate that certain computations should precede other computations, and also to shorten expressions by virtue of the "distributive law" that says A x (B+C) = (A x B) + (A x C). Both of these uses can be applied to English text.
One Of Six And Another Of Half A Dozen, Colm Mulcahy
One Of Six And Another Of Half A Dozen, Colm Mulcahy
Word Ways
We consider two different arrangements of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, whose applications illustrate a curious numerical/alphabetical duality. These can easily be explored with cards.
Who You Gonna Call?, Marc Allan
Who You Gonna Call?, Marc Allan
Word Ways
Here are some phone numbers with clues to whom or what you are trying to reach.