Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Arts and Humanities (235)
- Social and Behavioral Sciences (100)
- Religion (94)
- Education (49)
- Communication (32)
-
- English Language and Literature (26)
- History (23)
- Biblical Studies (20)
- Creative Writing (20)
- Linguistics (20)
- Poetry (20)
- Art and Design (19)
- Medicine and Health Sciences (19)
- Fiction (18)
- Illustration (18)
- Nonfiction (18)
- Photography (18)
- Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education (16)
- History of Religions of Eastern Origins (16)
- Modern Languages (15)
- Physical Sciences and Mathematics (15)
- Teacher Education and Professional Development (15)
- Business (13)
- Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature (13)
- Anthropology (12)
- Classics (11)
- Other Linguistics (10)
- Philosophy (10)
- Psychology (10)
- Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research (9)
- Keyword
-
- Linguistics (4056)
- Linguistic (845)
- Puzzles (41)
- Palindromes (34)
- Puzzle (30)
-
- Quiz (29)
- Transposals (15)
- Games (13)
- Puns (13)
- Poetry (11)
- Anagrams (10)
- Butler University (9)
- Mathematics (9)
- Poem (9)
- Poems (9)
- Word puzzle (9)
- Language (7)
- Book review (6)
- Homophones (6)
- Transpositions (6)
- Alice in Wonderland (5)
- Butler College (5)
- Butler University--Students--Yearbooks (5)
- Christianity (5)
- Crossword (5)
- Drift (5)
- Education (5)
- Music (5)
- Obituary (5)
- Project (5)
- Publication Year
- Publication
-
- Word Ways (4911)
- Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS (84)
- Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies (75)
- Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection (60)
- Scholarship and Professional Work – Education (25)
-
- Graduate Thesis Collection (19)
- Manuscripts (19)
- Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research (18)
- Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication (17)
- The North Meridian Review (12)
- Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences (10)
- Manuscript Thesis Collection (8)
- Butler Yearbooks (5)
- Scholarship and Professional Work - Business (5)
- Communication Science and Disorders Honors Theses (3)
- Historic Academic Bulletins (3)
- Scholarship and Professional Work (3)
- Scholarship and Professional Work – Arts (3)
- Booth (2)
- LAS Faculty Book Reviews (2)
- Ovid (2)
- Undergraduate Research Conference (2)
- BU Well (1)
- Butler University Books (1)
- English Graduate Theses (1)
- Music Graduate Theses (1)
- Scholarship and Professional Work of the Provost's Staff (1)
- Scholarship and Professional Work – COPHS (1)
- Special Collections Bibliographies (1)
- Spring 2023 (1)
- Publication Type
- File Type
Articles 2461 - 2490 of 5296
Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 33 Issue 3
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 33 Issue 3
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Aeiouy Words, Susan Thorpe
Aeiouy Words, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
With the 30-year quest for AEIOU words now behind us, I have taken the opportunity to add the letter Y and repeat the exercise for AEIOUY words. Y acts as a vowel in words such as symbol and is referred to variously as the sixth vowel, a semi-vowel or a secondary vowel. The world of AEIOUY words, those in which the six vowels A, E, I, O, U, and Y each occur just once, takes us into largely unexplored territory. There are 720 permutations of the six vowels A, E, I , O , U, and Y, six times as …
Wacky Ways With Words, A. Ross Eckler
Wacky Ways With Words, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
In the May 2000 Word Ways, Lionel Simard's story about Alma Anderson, an avid American amateur acrobat, uses only words starting with the letter A. Can other letters support extended narratives that make reasonable sense? Surprisingly, the letter W can be used, as illustrated by the following story of Winnie and her brother Walter's misadventures in the Wisbeach Woods. The original can be found in Don Lemon's century-old Everybody's Scrapbook of Curious Facts.
Anagramming The Bible, Michael Keith
Anagramming The Bible, Michael Keith
Word Ways
A book containing apposite letter-unit anagrams of every verse in three complete books of the King James Bible ("The Anagrammed Bible: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon" by Richard Brodie and Mike Keith) was recently published [1]. In this article I present some logological observations and discoveries resulting form the completion of this project.
The Elucidators, Jeremiah Farrell, Frank Harary, Christopher C. Mihelich
The Elucidators, Jeremiah Farrell, Frank Harary, Christopher C. Mihelich
Word Ways
In his posthumous work, the mammoth Cyclopedia of Puzzles published in 1914 by his son, the noted American puzzlist Sam Loyd (184101911) includes the problem "Duck Shooting at Buzzard's Bay." This interesting puzzle is reprinted as problem #96in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd (Dover, 1959).
Near-Ideal Nine-Letter Word Ladders, Rex Gooch
Near-Ideal Nine-Letter Word Ladders, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
In my article "Snakes and Ladders" in the May 1998 Word Ways, I recorded just one example of a word ladder with nine-letter words. The impression may have been given that it was the only one. As recorded in "Statistics of Word Neighbors". In the November 1997 issue, about 48 per cent of nine-letter words have one or more words that will sit next to them in a ladder, so, given in excess of 100,000 nine-letter words, there will be many ladders.
Mizmaze: The Labyrinth Of Lanugage, Dave Morice
Mizmaze: The Labyrinth Of Lanugage, Dave Morice
Word Ways
This poem, dedicated to Ross Eckler, uses words that contain all 676 bigrams from AA to ZZ, one per word. The words with bigrams occur in alphabetic order as they are listed on pp. 65-68 of Making the Alphabet Dance. Another 676 words connect them. Each of the 26 stanzas contains the 26 bigram words beginning with the same letter. For instance, the first stanza has all the A-bigram words, from bazAAr to magAZine. The entire poem is both grammatically and bigrammatically correct.
What Are The Odds X Is An Anagram Of Y?, Michael Keith
What Are The Odds X Is An Anagram Of Y?, Michael Keith
Word Ways
In a recent Word Ways article, "Celebrity One-Word Anagrams", the problem of finding famous (or even not-so-famous) people whose first and last names can be anagrammed into a single word was discussed. This raises questions of the form: how many people with N-letter combined names might we expect to encounter, in order to find one whose name is a single-word anagram? In this article I present some answers to this and other similar questions.
Another Mary Sonnet, Michael Keith
Another Mary Sonnet, Michael Keith
Word Ways
Dave Morice's sonnetized Mary in the May 2000 Kickshaws inspired me to transpose the letters of Shakespearean Sonnet 143 into an approximation to "Mary Had a Little Lamb". As can be seen, the subject of Sonnet 143 also involves domestic animals!
Near-Alternating Vowels And Consonants, A. Ross Eckler
Near-Alternating Vowels And Consonants, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
There exist 1024 (2^10) different patterns of vowels and consonants in ten-letter words. Among these 178 have no more than two consonants of two vowels in a row. These are the ones for which it is most likely that examples can be found. The following collection of words form Webster's Second Edition lists 175; can readers fill in the three missing patterns, or find more common words for the others?
Ten-Letter Word Ladders, Rex Gooch
Ten-Letter Word Ladders, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
In my article "Near-Ideal Nine Letter Word Ladders" in the August 2000 Word Ways I stated six criteria for a Connoisseur's Ladders: the technical criteria of changing all words in the minimum number of steps (in sequence), and the aesthetic ones of familiar words with apposite meanings. I found about 50 ladders which meet some of the technical criteria, and perhaps none which met the aesthetic ones, though BRAWNIEST-TWINKLERS might be regarded as amusing.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.
Labeling A List With Unique Identifiers, A. Ross Eckler
Labeling A List With Unique Identifiers, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Suppose that one wishes to replace words in a list by abbreviations in order to save space. If one allows abbreviations of variable length, a very simple rule is: use as many letters as needed to ensure that a word is not confused with any other word. For example, the states Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware... can be replaced by ALAB, ALAS, ARI , ARK, CA, COL, CON, D...
Indian Givers: Amerindian State Names, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Indian Givers: Amerindian State Names, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
Americans have wiped off the map many of the aboriginal names, but the names of geographical features that cannot be owned by individuals, such as those of mountains and great rivers, have often been left with their Amerindian names (sometimes mangled by later arrivals). Here are the Amerindian origins of some US states. Can you name the states? (Indiana is not included, nor is the land of the Utes).
A Transaddition Ancestry, Richard Sabey
A Transaddition Ancestry, Richard Sabey
Word Ways
In the November 1992 and May 1993 Kickshaws, Peter Newby wrote of a transaddition ancestry where each woman gave her daughter a name which was a transdeletion of her own, "I" being the end of the line. At least so he says, but, if they named their daughters that way, Brenda Eva Nellie's mother was not Brenda Elvira Rene!
Katie And Jay, An Odious Essay, Nick Montfort
Katie And Jay, An Odious Essay, Nick Montfort
Word Ways
This alphonetic tale of Katie and Jay described fornication and violent death. Children should read instead William Steig's excellent illustrated works C D B and C D C?
Kickshaws, Dave Morice
The Africanization Of Roman Catholic And Presbyterian Churches In Krobo-Odumase, Ghana, Lori Elizabeth Godich
The Africanization Of Roman Catholic And Presbyterian Churches In Krobo-Odumase, Ghana, Lori Elizabeth Godich
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection
The following pages include a combination of scholarly research and fieldwork pertaining to the Africanization of Christianity, specifically the relationship between Christianity and culture in the Ghanaian village of Krobo-Odumase. Chapter One outlines a brief history of Christianity in Africa, followed by Chapters Two and Three which contain more detailed histories of the Roman Catholic and Presbyterian Churches in Ghana. Special attention is given to Zimmermann Presbyterian Church and Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church in Krobo-Odurnase, where most ofthe study's fieldwork was conducted. Chapters Four -Eight examine five critical issues facing churches in Krobo-Odumase and throughout the African continent as …
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 33 Issue 2
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 33 Issue 2
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Bananagrams 9, Edmund Conti
Bananagrams 9, Edmund Conti
Word Ways
Bananagrams-anagrams to drive you bananas-consist of rhymed couplets, each one containing a pair of anagrams to be solved. One of the rhyming words will always to be an anagram and the couplet itself will offer clues to help solve the anagram. Answers can be found in Answers and Solutions at the end of the issue.
The Dispatchful Byeworkman, Michael Keith
The Dispatchful Byeworkman, Michael Keith
Word Ways
In this article we introduce the Dispatchful Byeworkman, a fellow closely related to the Gunpowdery Blacksmith (who is, as readers of Word Ways are well aware, the longest Unabridged Merriam-Webster two-word isogram). By contrast the Dispatchful Byeworkman is an example of the longest two-word isogram crossword, with 21 letters in the two words but only 20 distinct letters (diagram at left below).
Celebrity One-Word Anagrams, Michael Keith
Celebrity One-Word Anagrams, Michael Keith
Word Ways
Did you know that guitar legend ERIC CLAPTON is a NARCOLEPTIC? Or that singer BRITNEY SPEARS is a member of the PRESBYTERIANS? Or that actress MEG RYAN hails from GERMANY? Well, actually, such observations are only true loglogically; these are examples of famous people whose combined first and last names can be anagrammed into a single English word.
Sequential Snakes And Ladders, Rex Gooch
Sequential Snakes And Ladders, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
In a private communication I recently received an example and a challenge. The example was to change COLD to BARE by changing each letter in turn (all words to be valid), then to return to COLD in the same fashion: COLD BOLD BALD BARD BARE CARE CORE COLE COLD. I have previously called such sequences of there-and-back (regardless of the order of change) Snakes and Ladders, so I termed these sequences Sequential Snakes and Ladders, or SSLs for short.
Presidents, Pairs And Primes, Monte J. Zerger
Presidents, Pairs And Primes, Monte J. Zerger
Word Ways
Which of the two major presidential candidates will be elected on the first "2's Day" in November of the year 2000, and take office on the 20th day of the following year? Linguistically and numerically, Bush seems to have a definite edge. His last name begins with B, the second letter of the alphabet, and if elected he would be the second George Bush to serve.
Magic Square Magic, Jeremiah Farrell
Magic Square Magic, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
I had heard the rumors for years. Somewhere, deep in the back woods, there existed an enclave of mentalists with some clever new prediction tricks. In fact, I finally learned that the group, the mysterious MOUSTERIAN cult, is led by my good friend Edith, known to readers of Word Ways as Scrubwoman Edith. Her last appearance of these pages was in the August 1999 issue in "Edith Plays Word Treblecross".
Palindromania: Do Nod, Roland A. Duerksen
Palindromania: Do Nod, Roland A. Duerksen
Word Ways
In this companion article to "Palindromania: Don't Nod", the reader is invited to complete the following palindromic sentences (with all vowels except Y identified). Each palindrome is clued by a rhymed couplet, with capitalized words are labeled with an asterisk. Answers can be found in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue.
New Palindromes, Susan Thorpe
New Palindromes, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
If Malayalam is typed backwards, malayala M, it is different from Malayalam. When the word is spoken, the first letter 'a' is short but the final 'a' is long, which means that it also sounds different backwards. Because visual and phonetic discrepancies are rife amongst the words we unhesitatingly accept as palindromes, is there any question why we should not accept dowod (Polish: proof), rugur (Icelandic: rye), or ucuru (Turkish: flying: volatile) as palindromes? Unlike these three words, the palindromes below have no stress or sound accents, and all but the 2nd and 4th are new to Word Ways.
Ed's Palindromic Trickery, John E. Connett
Ed's Palindromic Trickery, John E. Connett
Word Ways
The Nov 1998 Kickshaws presented two palindromic poems starting and ending with ED I HIDE, plus one consisting of ED, I HID A...-AD, I HIDE. In this article we analyze their structure in detail, and also exhibit a number of palindromic variations that Ed can exploit.