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Reversible 6-Squares, Rex Gooch
Reversible 6-Squares, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
A reversible word square is one in which every row can be read backwards, and every column upwards. Every word must be either a reversible word such as LANRET (TERNAL in reverse) or a palindrome, which is a special kind of reversible word. In this article, the term reversible word does not include palindromes. In general, counts include valid rotations and reflections.
"Ma Is The Measure Of All Things": A Linguistic Potpourri, Don Hauptman
"Ma Is The Measure Of All Things": A Linguistic Potpourri, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
This is it: the inevitable "desk-clearing" article of miscellanea and ephemera that didn't fit elsewhere.
Wordplay In 1929, Believe It Or Not!, A. Ross Eckler
Wordplay In 1929, Believe It Or Not!, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Starting in the 1920s, the column "Believe It Or Not" by Robert Ripley appeared in more than one hundred newspapers by 1930. Reading this as a boy, I was fascinated by oddities such as the English lad who died of old age before his seventh birthday, the Hindu who hung head downward for three hours at a stretch, and the girl born with a single eye in the middle of her forehead. I was also beguiled by the 210-letter word coined by monastic writers in the Middle Ages to enumerate the varieties of divination using birds, oracles, the Bible, ghosts, …
Canine Capers, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Canine Capers, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
Our domestic animals have given us such terms as buy a pig in a poke, let the cat out of the bag, and get one's goat. Can you (doggedly) work on the following expressions involving Man's Best Friend, some in the slang that calls a frankfurther a hot dog. Some are funny that they would make a dog laugh.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.
Vowel-Consonant Patterns: 10-Letter Words, Susan Thorpe
Vowel-Consonant Patterns: 10-Letter Words, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
This is a sequel to Vowel-Consonant Patterns which covered V-C patterns in 7-, 8-, and 9- letter words (Word Ways 2002249 and 2003038).
Orchard Words, Jeremiah Farrell
Orchard Words, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
The orchard problem, also known as the three-planting problem in the literature, is to plant n trees so that there will be r straight rows with k trees in each row. The maximum r for various k is unknown except for certain small cases of n and k. We have constructed examples of known maximums using words which we call Orchard Words.
All-Diagonal 5-Squares With Simpler Words, Max Gutmann
All-Diagonal 5-Squares With Simpler Words, Max Gutmann
Word Ways
It may seem that a 5-square could contain nothing but familiar words, but these 5-squares have eight words which have to fit, of which at least one must be a reversible word, and at least one a palindrome. In the case of six-squares, there was just one square with as many as 7 words (two less than the maximum) among the most used 87,000 words: in the case of five-squares, 3 squares had all 8 words in the top 87,000 (and 66 squares had just 7 words).
All-Diagonal Seven-Squares From The Oed, Rex Gooch
All-Diagonal Seven-Squares From The Oed, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
If I have found no 9-square with words for all its diagonals, and needed place names to produce all-diagonal 8-squares, then 7-squares can be produced solely from the OED. Omitting place names reduced the crucial elements from 3386 reversible words and 878 palindromes, 584 reversible and 661 palindromes.
Heterogrammic Word Squares, A. Ross Eckler
Heterogrammic Word Squares, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
A heterogrammic word square (one containing no repeated letters) is limited to size three or four; a size five square containing 25 different alphabetic letters is impossible to achieve. In Making the Alphabet Dance (St. Martin's , 1996), heterogrammic 4-squares by George Lopes, Jeremy Morse and Jeff Grant are given.
Life's Secret Files, Susan Thorpe
Life's Secret Files, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
In each of the groups of 3 words below, the first and second words make a 2-word phrase; the second and third words also make a 2-word phrase. Easy you might say and you would be right, if it wasn't for the fact that a third constraint requires that the first and third words be related. They may both be transposals, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, heterophones, different tenses of the same verb, palindromes, reversals, mutual shifts, rhyming words, AEIOU words, and so on.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 30 Issue 3
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 30 Issue 3
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Embedding Hamlet In Pi, Mike Keith, A. Ross Eckler
Embedding Hamlet In Pi, Mike Keith, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Take the text of Shakespeare's Hamlet beginning with its title "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Demark...". Write down the digits of pi (after the decimal point) in successive slices, reduce these mod 26, and convert the resulting numbers to letters using the correspondence A=0, B=1...Z=25.
On Palindromes, Richard Lederer
On Palindromes, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
The accident and popular Art of the Palindrome blazes out from the epicenter of the universe of letter play. Alistair Reid expresses what may be the very heart of the fascination for matters palindromic when he writes, "The dream which occupies the tortuous mind of every palindromist is that somewhere within the confines of the language lurks the Great Palindrome, the nutshell which not only fulfills the intricate demands of the art, flowing sweetly in both directions, but which also contains the Final Truth of Things." There is indeed something magic about the palindromic craft, the platonic form of making …
Vowel-Consonant Patterns In 8-Letter Heterograms, Susan Thorpe
Vowel-Consonant Patterns In 8-Letter Heterograms, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
In Vowel-Consonant Patterns: Part 1 (WW2002249) we found that there are 256 (2^8) 8-letter vowel-consonant patterns - 128 beginning with a consonant (C Patterns) and 128 with a vowel (V patterns). When it comes to heterograms (all letters different), these numbers are reduced. This is because there are only 5 different vowels available (a, e, i, o and u), so that any V-C number of C patterns available in reduced by 8 from 128 to 120; the number of V patterns is reduced by 29 from 128 to 99.
Anacrograms 2: Acronyms; Singles; Phrases
Anacrograms 2: Acronyms; Singles; Phrases
Word Ways
Anacrograms, introduced in May, are anagrams of acrostics of text. Here are numerous examples from common idioms and saying. (Part 3 will be from quotations.) I occasionally cheated by modifying the wording slightly, obviously or unobtrusively. The most interesting anacrograms logologically are spelled without rearrangement. I call these acronyms. They are anacrograms in the sense that charades and half-palindromes are anagrams.
All-Diagonal Six-Squares With Familiar Words, Rex Gooch
All-Diagonal Six-Squares With Familiar Words, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
I have previously attempted to find word squares with words as diagonals for squares of order 9, 8, and 7. As the order of the square decreases, it becomes possible to use more familiar words. The six rows and three diagonals of six-squares make nine words: in all the examples in this article, the majority of the nine words are in the most-used 87,000 words (British National Corpus): in the square, just two words do not appear in the top 87,000.
Some Narrative Alphametics, James Mayfield
Some Narrative Alphametics, James Mayfield
Word Ways
In an alphametic, letters are substituted for numbers in an arithmetic problem, and the reader is invited to find the solution. If the letters spell out some sort of a message, so much the better; the oldest one known, SEND + MORE = MONEY, was crafted by H.E. Dudeney in 1924. (The term alphametic was coined by J.A.H. Hunter in 1955.)
Spoonertoons 3: The "Eek!" Shall Inherit The Mirth, Don Hauptman
Spoonertoons 3: The "Eek!" Shall Inherit The Mirth, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
As an annual tradition, one we trust is much anticipated, we present a new set of original spoonerisms rendered into visual form. This is the third consecutive August issue of Word Ways in which our collaborative feature has appeared. By the way, although it's a few weeks too late to send him a card, July 22 was Dr. Spooner's 162nd birthday.
The Great Times Ten-Square Hoax, Rex Gooch
The Great Times Ten-Square Hoax, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
When i was at University, I ran my college debating society, and was contacted by the best-known columnist of one of the two serious Sunday newspapers in the UK (in the UK, the major papers are national in circulation). He told me to ring him, reversing the charges, no matter how late, to let him know the result of a particular debate. I did so, to be met with a very curt dismissal, because the vote did not support his view.
Kickshaws, David L. Silverman
Punk Whiz 2
Word Ways
Pun Quiz: what common phrases or words do these disdefinitions refer to? The numbers tell how many letters are in the words of the answer. As a clue (7/5/4) means the answer is a 16-letter word made up of elements of 7, 5, and 4 letters. My answers are at the back of this issue.
Did You Write A Shakespearean Sonnet?, A. Ross Eckler
Did You Write A Shakespearean Sonnet?, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
One can divide humanity into two groups - those who can be identified as the real author of a Shakespearean sonnet, and those who cannot. Willard Espy revealed in his book The World's Gotten Out (Clarkson Potter, 1989) the method of establishing authorship: look for the first letter of a name anywhere in the first line of a given sonnet, the second letter of the name anywhere in the second line of the same sonnet, and so on until the full name is spelled out. Sure enough, Willard Espy appears in Sonnet 114.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.
Palindromic Triads: Not Quite Agamemnon, Steven Kahan
Palindromic Triads: Not Quite Agamemnon, Steven Kahan
Word Ways
Logologists recognize Agamemnon, the leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War, as the only common dictionary entry that is made up of three consecutive palindromic triads. In the challenge that follows, you are asked to find twenty-seven more words that begin and end with a palindromic triad.
Adeginr Aehlmops
Word Ways
"Reading Alphomes" is the above title in alphomes: the letters of each word are alphabetized. The following paragraph recently made the rounds on the i-net and partly inspired this essay. (The rest of this page is translated in Answers and Solutions at the back of this issue.)
Reversible Seven-Squares, Rex Gooch
Reversible Seven-Squares, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
A reversible word square is one in which every row can be read backwards, and every column upwards - see especially the examples in the second section below. Every word must be either a reversible word such as REVILER (RELIVER in reverse) or a palindrome, which is a special kind of reversible word. In this article, the term reversible word does not include palindromes. In general, counts include valid rotations and reflections.