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Concatenating Letter Ranks, Roger Bilisoly
Concatenating Letter Ranks, Roger Bilisoly
Word Ways
This note is inspired by Numbo-Carrean, which was introduced in Ross Eckler's Word Recreations [1] in the chapter called "Ten Logotopian Lingos." This lingo uses words with the following property: when each letter is replaced by its letter rank (or alphabetic position number), the resulting number is a perfect square. That is, a is replaced by 1, b by 2, c by 3, and so forth, and these numbers are concatenated.
Spoonergrams Ii, Jim Puder
Spoonergrams Ii, Jim Puder
Word Ways
Spooneristic switches of sounds between words can occur not just in pairs of words, but in trios, quartets, etc. of words as well. When every word in a group of n words partakes of an equivalent exchange of sounds with every other word in the group, the result can be graphically represented as an array of n words called a spoonergram.
Anacrograms 3: Quotations, A. Anil
Anacrograms 3: Quotations, A. Anil
Word Ways
Anacrograms, introduced in May, are anagrams of the acrostics (first letters) of expressions, a sort of wheels-within-wheels word play. Part 2 in August gave examples from common idioms and sayings. Here are examples from a wide variety of quotations, familiar and not. All results - paraphrases, follow-ons and 'antonyms' - are combined in alphabetical order by author, except for a dozen of the more successful efforts which are featured on this page in no particular order.
Flack Jackets And Increased Salvation, Don Hauptman
Flack Jackets And Increased Salvation, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
For a book in progress, I continue to compile entertaining published anomalies and errors, appending to each a waggish response - a format popularized by The New Yorker. Contributions are invited; please send candidates to the above email address.
Chemical Elements Inside Of Other Elements, Antonio Joaquin Franco Mariscal
Chemical Elements Inside Of Other Elements, Antonio Joaquin Franco Mariscal
Word Ways
The names of the chemical elements have received a certain amount of attention in Word Ways over the years. Borgmann (1968) presented a quiz on 20 transposed element names in the first issue of Word Ways. Other articles have documented more extensive transpositions of element names (Borgmann, 1974, 1978; Francis 1977) and where an element did not have a transposition, Francis (1977) offered the shortest possible transadditions of the element names.
Palindromic Movie Reviews, Win Emmons
Palindromic Movie Reviews, Win Emmons
Word Ways
In two articles in 1995 issues of Word Ways Ross Eckler presented anagrammatic movie reviews. That is, they were movie reviews obtained by anagramming the movie's title. In that spirit I present here Palindromic Movie Reviews. There is, of course, a natural limitation to what can be said given the constraints of having the title actually appear reversed in the text, so these do not pretend to be "actual discussions", as it were, of the movie, but simply opinions about the film, often intended to be spoken to a friend, for example.
Instructions To Authors, Subscribers
Instructions To Authors, Subscribers
Word Ways
Instructions to authors interested in contributing and readers interested in subscribing.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
Sequences Within, Susan Thorpe
Sequences Within, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Starting with two or more generic sequences, there are several ways in which they may be arranged in relation to each other, sometimes forming a word.
Double Triples, Steve Kahan
Double Triples, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
A double triple is a pair of identical triads that appears consecutively in a word, phrase or name. For example, the word MURMURED contains the double triple MUR, while the phrase ONE PER PERSON contains the double triple PER. The residue of a word, phrase or name that contains a double triple results from removing it and listing the remaining letters in their order of appearance. Accordingly, ED is the residue of MURMURED, while ONESON is the residue of ONE PER PERSON.
More Consecutive Palindromic Triads, Steve Kahan
More Consecutive Palindromic Triads, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
As introduced in Volume 40, Number 2 of Word Ways, this word b e E K E E P E r contains a pair of consecutive palindromic triads - E K E and E P E. Removing both and running the remaining letters together, what remains is b e r. The twenty five new examples presented below represent the residues after a pair of consecutive palindromic triads has been excised from a familiar word, phrase, or name.
Front Cover, Publication Information
Front Cover, Publication Information
Word Ways
Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents
Most-Perfect Word Magic, Oscar Thumpbindle
Most-Perfect Word Magic, Oscar Thumpbindle
Word Ways
Here is a rather hard puzzle. Assign the sixteen numbers 1 through 15 to the letters of OSCAR THUMPBINDLE so that the eight words BASH, BUMP, CLAD, CURE, HORN, MIND, PLOT, and SITE each sume to 30. There are 86 ways four of the sixteen numbers can sum to 30 and therein lies the puzzle's difficulty.
Hot Buns, Win Emmons
A Near-Perfect French 9-By-8 Word Rectangle, A. Ross Eckler
A Near-Perfect French 9-By-8 Word Rectangle, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The following 9-by-8 French word rectangle attributed to Jean-Charles Meyrignac appears on the Internet (for example, on www.mathpuzzle.com for May 25 2004). The source says that all but one of the words can be found in the Petit Larousse. This is intermediate in difficulty between an 8-by-8 and a 9-by-9 double word square, the latter of which has never been done in English. No 9-by-8 English rectangles are known by us to exist, but French is particularly adaptable to this form because of the many inflected verb forms.
Transposing 4-Letter Words, Susan Thorpe
Transposing 4-Letter Words, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
In Transposing Rates (WW87195), Jeff Grant listed the 24 transpositions of the four letters AEST. He said "Although some of the terms and references are rather obscure, it is an accomplishment unlikely to be equalled with any other set of four letters". This is a challenge which appears to have lain dormant for 20 years. Here, I offer other sets of 24 transpositions.
Sacred Manuscripts Boast Secret Ciphers, Susan Thorpe
Sacred Manuscripts Boast Secret Ciphers, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
In Orthograffiti (WW78217), Richard Lederer showed that a single sound can be demonstrated by many letters. The sounds which concern us here are the long vowels, specifically the sounds of the 5 major vowels A, E, I, O, and U as they are pronounced in the reading of the alphabet. The sound symbols are those of the Phonetics List of the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition. However, I include a further parameter. The long vowel sound must either be preceded, or succeeded, by the short 's' sound.
Lettuce Prey, William Webster
Lettuce Prey, William Webster
Word Ways
Bill Webster, a direct descendant of Noah Webster, died on September 24, 2001. In his last letter to the editor, written only three days earlier, he noted "I expect to improve on this, when I get a broader word base. Seams know won nose of a compleat list...Have well over 200, and adding continuously."
A 5-Dimensional Magic Die, David S. Dillon, Jeremiah Farrell
A 5-Dimensional Magic Die, David S. Dillon, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
This extends the 3-dimensional HOT-PAD and the 4-dimensional SALT-MINE dice described in "Magic Word Dice", May, 2007 to a fifth dimension (see also J. Puder's remarks in the August 2007 Colloquy). A schematic (2-dimensional!) drawing of the 5-cube follows. It is based on the word pair POLAR-MINES and every node word uses exactly one each of the five pairs 1 = P-M, 2 = O-I, 3 = L-N, 4 = A-E and 5 = R-S.
Back Cover
Word Ways
The back cover, including a board for a game contained in this issue.
Puncture, Michael Kline
Cartoon, Jed Martinez
Word Play, Martin Gardner
Word Play, Martin Gardner
Word Ways
This is an excerpt from Mr. Gardner's forthcoming book on word play. It will be Chapter 7 in that book entitled "Entangled Words and Numbers".
Limerickshaws: The Grand Finale, David Morice
Limerickshaws: The Grand Finale, David Morice
Word Ways
In the last issue of Word Ways, Kickshaws became Limerickshaws, a special edition celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 1907 British Limerick Craze. The column began with 28 words found using Google. Each of the words referred to limericks, and each began with an L. Similarly the words above refer to limericks, but they begin with letters other than L. Most of them are terms that writers have made up to refer to invented forms.
Review Of The Book: English Language Learners In The Mathematics Classroom, Brooke Kandel-Cisco
Review Of The Book: English Language Learners In The Mathematics Classroom, Brooke Kandel-Cisco
Scholarship and Professional Work – Education
Dr. Kandel-Cisco's review of: Coggins, Debra; Kravin, Drew; Coates, Grace Dávila & Carroll, Maria Dreux (2007). English Language Learners in the Mathematics Classroom. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
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Front Cover, Publication Information
Word Ways
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Colloquy
Word Ways
Ed and Gudrun Wolpow, have had many connections with the Ecklers over the years and add to the celebration of their retirement. "To choose what to say about the Ecklers, well, each word weighs. The French speak of le violon d'Ingres - Ingres' violin - the violin a hobby for the famed painter, but a consuming one. Ross and Faith played our (and their) violins - a delight in our avocational worlds that we sometimes envied for our main callings. Many thanks for this joyful flourish at the edge of our "real" lives - reminding, as in a great painting, …
The Concise Dictionary Of Two Letter Words Revised Edition
The Concise Dictionary Of Two Letter Words Revised Edition
Word Ways
A collection of 676 words from aa, a rough, scoriaceous lava, through zz, a short buzzing or snoring sound.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained within this issue.