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Alphabetic Trigrams And Tetragrams, Jeff Grant May 1999

Alphabetic Trigrams And Tetragrams, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

Many words contain a trigram comprising three consecutive letters of the alphabet. The most commonly occurring are DEF (DEFine, DEFeat, DEFt, etc.) and STU (STUck, STUb, paSTUre, etc.).

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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 32 Issue 2 May 1999

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 32 Issue 2

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

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Every Word-Pair In This Set Has One Crash, A. Ross Eckler Feb 1999

Every Word-Pair In This Set Has One Crash, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

More than twenty years ago, in the February 1978 Word Ways, I challenged readers to find a set of eight seven-letter words in which every one of the 28 possible pairs had exactly one crash (one letter-match in the same position, as foRce and maRy, or caSinos and miSrule).

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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 32 Issue 1 Feb 1999

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 32 Issue 1

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

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Scrubwoman Edith Meets W.R. Hamilton, Zhi Hong Chen, Jeremiah Farrell, Thomas Rodgers Feb 1999

Scrubwoman Edith Meets W.R. Hamilton, Zhi Hong Chen, Jeremiah Farrell, Thomas Rodgers

Word Ways

At an Omnium Gatherum in honor of Martin Gardner held in Atlanta in January 1998, one of us presented the following word puzzle for the amusement of the attendees.

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Recreated, William Young Feb 1999

Recreated, William Young

Word Ways

The following poem consists of two stanzas of fifteen lines each. Each of the lines can be typed with the keys on only one side of the typewriter.

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Abstemious, Price, Fibonacci, Square Words, Rex Gooch Feb 1999

Abstemious, Price, Fibonacci, Square Words, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

Firstly, I should like to apologize in advance should anyone be able to point out that braver efforts than mine have appeared in Word Ways before. Still it is not without interest to compare the state of knowledge in (mainly) 1972 with that of today. The common theme among these types of words is that only certain letters are permitted, though not every permitted letter must be used, and more than one copy of each letter is permitted. These words are relatively scarce--roughly one is every thousand words or fewer. Some readers may wish to glance first at the table …

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Twenty-Twenty Vision, Susan Thorpe Feb 1999

Twenty-Twenty Vision, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Playing with 2x2 and 3x3 squares constructed from word chains made me curious as to how far the exercise could be taken; the table on the next two pages is the result. Each horizontally-adjacent pair of words makes another word (many of these are hyphenated) or a two-word phrase, reading either from left to right or from right to left (follow the arrows). Each vertically-adjacent pair of words is similarly linked when read from left to right, and another word/phrase when read from right to left (similarly upwards and downwards); these two-way pairs are indicated by double-headed arrows.

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Colloquy Feb 1999

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

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The Most Versatile Palindrome, Jeff Grant, Pat Grant Feb 1999

The Most Versatile Palindrome, Jeff Grant, Pat Grant

Word Ways

What palindromic word has the most different meanings? The answer to this intriguing question requires some research. There are many common palindromes with four or more letters -- DEED,NOON, PEEP, SEES, TOOT, CIVIC, LEVEL, MADDAM, etc. -- but their scope is somewhat limited. The solution must surely lie at the three-letter level where 'dromes abound.

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The Piku, Michael Keith Feb 1999

The Piku, Michael Keith

Word Ways

The word-length pi mnemonic has been around for some time; a classic example, said to have been composed by physicist Sir James Jeans, is:

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Varieties Of Palindromic Pangrams, James Puder Feb 1999

Varieties Of Palindromic Pangrams, James Puder

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Depending upon which aspect of its dual nature one considers primary, a palindromic pangram may be defined as either a palindromes which is pangrammatic (i.e., which contains every letter of the alphabet) or as a pangram which is palindromic. The first one ever published was written by Howard Bergerson and appeared in Dmitri Borgmann's 1965 book, Language on Vacation. Subsequently James Rambo, in the November 1976 Word ways, and Jeff Grant, in the May 1978 Word ways, contributed additional examples to the canon. Several more of these interestingly constrained writings serve to illustrate the present article, in which various kinds …

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Aeinrst Extended, Darryl Francis Feb 1999

Aeinrst Extended, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

In the Aug 1998 Word Ways, we presented a multiplicity of transposals of the seven letters AEINRST. After we had finished work on that article, we began to wonder how it could be extended further.

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"Not New York" Roy Went On, John E. Connett Feb 1999

"Not New York" Roy Went On, John E. Connett

Word Ways

Is this the first palindrome incorporating a state name? (it was published in Notes & Queries under Leigh Mercer's name in 1958.) The most recent Word Ways state name collection is Dave Morice's set of 24 in the November 1996 Kickshaws.

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A B C D E, Susan Thorpe Feb 1999

A B C D E, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

The letters ABVDE can be arranged in 120 different ways. Nine of these permutations occur as sequences uninterrupted by intervening letters, in BEAD Curtain, barBED CAT, poliCE BADge, flounCED ABout, bage. But all these sequences straddles the two words of the phrase. The current exercise searches for single words which include one of the permutations as an uninterrupted sequences.

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Fast To The Foc's'Le, Facile Fossil! Feb 1999

Fast To The Foc's'Le, Facile Fossil!

Word Ways

Eckler, you still don't concede that the whole damned pasture full of Mary's lambs in mine? Instead you challenge the proper format for anagram poems? Eckler, I precede you by four centuries! My skill, art, craft and talent identify all great literature as mine, and I believe I know the rules, as I invent them.

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Heterograms With No Adjacent Letters, Rex Gooch Feb 1999

Heterograms With No Adjacent Letters, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

In the November Colloquy, Sir Jeremy Morse postulated that TAPERINGLY is the longest heterogram having no alphabetically-adjacent letters. By this he meant no two letters in the word are adjacent in the alphabet--for example, if the word has an O in it, it cannot have an N or P. However, I at first interpreted it to mean no bigrams of the form AB,BC, ... YZ, as much weaker restriction. So here are two puzzles for the price of one!

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Stew Inside Curies, William Webster Feb 1999

Stew Inside Curies, William Webster

Word Ways

Each word can be anagrammed to an Official Scrabble Players Dictionary word (except proper names). Apostrophes are omitted (sit = it's).

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Bananagrams 4, Edmund Conti Feb 1999

Bananagrams 4, 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 be an anagram, and the couplet itself will offer clues to help solve the anagrams. Answers will be found in Answers and Solutions at the end of the issue.

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Kickshaws, Dave Morice Feb 1999

Kickshaws, Dave Morice

Word Ways

Readers are encouraged to send their favorite linguistic kickshaws to the Kickshaws Editor (e-mail [email protected]).

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Stuffing The Isogrid, Eric Chaikin Feb 1999

Stuffing The Isogrid, Eric Chaikin

Word Ways

With the gunpowdery blacksmith at our side, we have hunted the biggest bisograms. In our next adventure, they will be stuffed and put on display. The "Nots and Crosses" contest in the July 1991 issue of Games Magazine put forth the following challenge: place a different word in each cell of a 3-by-3 tic-tac-toe grid ("noughts and crosses" for Anglophiles) so that no row, column, or corner-to-corner diagonal repeats a letter, with the object being to maximize the total number of letters in the grid.

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Answers And Solutions Feb 1999

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.

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And Sound As Sweet By Any Other Name?, Andrea Cantrell, Stephen J. Chism Feb 1999

And Sound As Sweet By Any Other Name?, Andrea Cantrell, Stephen J. Chism

Word Ways

Are some of us subconsciously drawn to jobs for which our names describe a primary product, action or tool with which we work? When parents name a child do they "bestow nomen atque omen," or a name and an omen [Plautus, Persa, act iv, scene 4]? Whether omens, directions, or merely humorous coincidence, the personal names in general use and career combinations listed below are offered for your amusement. Match the names in the second column with the occupations in the first.

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Back Cover Feb 1999

Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

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Colloquy Nov 1998

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

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Debra And Theresa Shop, William Webster Nov 1998

Debra And Theresa Shop, William Webster

Word Ways

Each word can be anagrammed to an Official Scrabble Players Dictionary word (except for proper names). All apostrophes are omitted (sit it's). The translation can be found in Answers and Solutions.

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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 31 Issue 4 Nov 1998

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 31 Issue 4

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

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All Numbers Less Than 100 Are Interesting?, Dave Morice Nov 1998

All Numbers Less Than 100 Are Interesting?, Dave Morice

Word Ways

In the Feb 1977 Word Ways, Dmitri Borgmann wrote "All English words and names--all, without a single exception--are logologically interesting." He didn't define interestingness, and his examples didn't clarify matters. In the May 1980 Word ways, Philip Cohen attempted to codify the term, applying it to a finite set of words (the 50 states) with some success. I decided to apply the concept to a different set: the number names ONE, TWO, ...,NINETY-NINE. Mathematics plays an important part in wordplay. Because both logological and numerical properties can be considered, interestingness takes many strange twists and turns.

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Neal, Norma And Ronald, Jeff Grant, Pat Grant Nov 1998

Neal, Norma And Ronald, Jeff Grant, Pat Grant

Word Ways

Following on from the search for additional transposable names of the GARY GRAY and EDNA DEAD type (see "A Checklist of Transposable People" in the Aug 1998 Word Ways, we decided to further investigate the most fruitful combinations at the four-, five- and six-letter levels. In the process, several new transposable names came to light (these are asterisked below). Note that examples where the first and last names are identical and also included.

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The I18n Phenomenon, Nyr Indictor Nov 1998

The I18n Phenomenon, Nyr Indictor

Word Ways

In computerese these days, the word internationalization comes up an awful lot. It usually refers to the conversion of software into a form that is accessible to users in different countries, speaking different languages. A related term, localization, describes the customization of software for users at a particular location, with a specific language need. Because these terms are quite long, they have curious abbreviations; il8n (referring to the fact there are 10 letters between the initial I and the final N) and 110n.

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