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Add A Million Words To Your Vocabulary, Nyr Indictor

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Actually, I could have written "add a billion words to your vocabulary". Or more, even. If I had written the actual number of words this article can teach you, you would have turned the page. You would have had to, because the actual number doesn't fit on this page.

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Rhetoric And The Aids Virus Hunt, Carol Reeves

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

By comparing the papers produced by the laboratory teams of Robert Gallo and Jean Luc Montagnier during the AIDS virus hunt, we have an opportunity to discern the fine line between a bold, explicit rhetoric that may convince as well as offend and a bald, reserved rhetoric that may actually conceal important implications. Going too far in either direction may create misunderstandings and ethical dilemmas as will be demonstrated in a textual analysis deepened by an exploration of historical context and interviews with key participants. Since a public health crisis calls upon communication that thwarts misunderstandings, scientists should understand the …

Galdós's Segunda Manera: Rhetorical Strategies And Affective Response, Linda M. Willem

Butler University Books

This book explores the change that occurred in the writings of Spanish novelist Benito Pérez Galdós when he entered his segunda manera in 1881 with the publication of La desberedada, his first contemporary novel. By studying his novels in light of how their stories are told, Linda Willem shows that La desberedada marks the beginning of a more sophisticated and varied mode of narrative presentation in Galdós's work. Through close readings of his first seven contemporary novels, Willem shows how the affective response associated with various narrative devices plays a role in the rhetorical strategies of each text.

National Identity, Nationalism, And The Organization Of The European Union, Antonio V. Menéndez Alarcón

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Based on in-depth interviews and document analysis, this article examines the relationships between cultural identification and the process of European integration. It shows that French and Spanish people's cultural attachments to Europe as a common social organization is still very limited and reflects a concern for the defense of a national identity. This research contributes to our understanding of the European integration and to the theory of cultural identity by suggesting a dynamic paradigm that articulates the constitution of a formal organization with the process of cultural identity formation.

Speaking Of The Hindu Diaspora In Australia, Purushottama Bilimoria

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

What are the distinctive characteristics of the "Diaspora Hindus" who turned up during the different phases in the Australian landscape? To address this question, this essay will briefly discuss the early, colonial, post-independent, and more recent phases corresponding to patterns in migration, settlement, and temple culture of Australian Hindus, drawing on the history of their reception in the host society alongside other data, from the 1857 to 1996 national censuses.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 30 Issue 4

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Poegematry, Michael Helsem

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Poetry & Gematria remain at an uneasy distance, not quite speaking not quite ignoring each other. One flourishes in exile, slipshod & ever prouding [a coinage from Ken's Saro-Wiwa's novel Sozaboy, published in 1988 by Longmann]; the other dwells among qabbalistic catacombs & cranks.

Long Words In The Oed, Darryl Francis

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"What's the longest word in the dictionary?"

"You mean -- the longest English word."

"Yeah."

"Well, that depends which dictionary you go for. Bigger dictionaries have more words in them, and smaller dictionaries have fewer words in them. There's more chance of bigger dictionaries having longer words. You takes your choice."

Colloquy

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A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Glossery, Nyr Indictor

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What do the following two alphabets have in common?

Ana Gram, The Juggler, Richard Lederer

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Come one! Come all! The unparalleled, incomparable, sensational Word Circus is in town! Hurry! Hurry! Scurry! to the Greatest Show on Earth, where words come out of the wordwork. Laugh at our lexcellent tour de farces! Thrill as letters fly through the air with the greatest of E's. Gasp as you become the Wizard of Ahs and A Lass in Wonderland.

Varieties Of Balanced Words, Part 2, Rex Gooch

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2. Numerical Tautonyms

This is the second of three parts of an article dealing with varieties of "balanced" words. Numerical tautonyms are words which may be divided into groups of letters, each group having the same number of letters, and where the sums of the numerical values (A=1, B=2, etc.) of the letters in each group are the same.

Alpha(Betic) To Omega, Jan Anderson

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Angry Archfiend, arched, aggressive as an ax attack,

Blather-brazen Beast Belial bashes, batters back

Compassion's courage ... Careless, coreless, cold! calumniates

Divity's Dread dreadless!

Geometrical Words: Part 2, Susan Thorpe

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Part 1 of Geormetrical Words looked at words whose letters can be arranged to make a triangle or a set of triangles. Part 2 looks at words whose letters can be arranged to make other geometrical shapes. As with triangles, the letters along the edge of these shapes may form edge words (MET, HER and SON below).

Answers And Solutions

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

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Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

Four Universal-Recipient Words, Susan Thorpe

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In "The Suet Alphabet", Nyr Indictor noted that one can add each letter of the alphabet (except for Z) to SUET and rearrange to form new words. Finding such universal-recipient words is a time-consuming challenge but not a mission impossible. In the four examples below, all words are OED except ROEX's.

F. P. Ramsey, Meet Scrubwoman Edith, Jeremiah Farrell

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F. P. Ramsey (1903-1930) was a philosopher, logician, and mathematician who died young after an ill-fated operation. He was a product of England's Cambridge University when both Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein were there.

Yet More Murderous Wordplay, Peter Newby

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William Marwood was the principal hangman of the United Kingdom during the years 1874-83. Such was his fame that a contemporarty children's riddle went as follows.

Wysi Not Wyg, Mary Christine Craig

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There must be a logological name for word definitions composed according to the way the words sound (and perhas getting close to the actual meaning of them), but I can't come up with it. What you see is not what you get!

Presidential Letter Shifts, Monte J. Zerger

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The next presidential shift will occur in the year of Arthur C. Clarke's classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The letters in the name of the rogue computer, HAL, can be shifted forward one letter in the alphabet to produce IBM: HAL(1)IBM. This is probably the most widely celebrated case of alleged letter shifting, although Clarke denies any intentionality. Rivaling this is notoriety is the shifting of FBI by six letters to obtain LHO, the initials of Lee Harvey Oswald, something numerologists love to link with the sixth floor from which the shooting took place: F BI(6)LHO.

Kickshaws, Richard Lederer

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A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Holy Mackerel, Mr. Rice!, Robert C. Layton

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I'm not SHERBET the following story is reported to be true. You don't have to swallow it but it comes form one who knows her ONIONS, and is not prone to FUDGing. Some say she's full of BOLOGNA but the proof is in the PUDDING. At least LETTUCE keep an open mind as we explore her tale!

Anguish Languish, A. Ross Eckler

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Willard Espy writes in his 1980 book Another Almanac of Words at Play (Feb 12): "Anguish Languish, popularized by the late Howard L. Chance, is a form of punning in which words overlap to give an impression of other words, as clouds assume forms according to the fancy of the observer."

The Oed Misinterpreted, Darryl Francis

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Back in 1965, Dmitri Borgmann pronounced that PREDETERMINIST was not the kind of word that you could find in a dictionary (see p 87 of Language on Vocation).

Statistics Of Word Neighbours, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

The word reported here was undertaken during preparation of an article on Word Ladders: I felt in need of some facts to direct my efforts, and to clarify some remarks others had made. This article presents the frequency of occurrence of some types of words, and compares this to a "theoretical" frequency. The theoretical frequencies are based upon very simple assumptions. Nevertheless in some cases the predictions are quite good: in other cases I seek to find why the predictions are poor.

Editorial

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As it completes its thirtieth year of publication -- long than most cottage - industry magazines -- Word Ways faces a crisis. Post office regulations require at least 200 paid subscriptions in order to qualify for a second-class mailing permit.

Palimericks, James Puder

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Limericks and palindromes both being popular forms of linguistic recreation, it occurred to me to wonder whether the two could be salutarily combined. Is it possible to compose a decent limerick which is also an end-to-end palindrome? And if so, is it worth the trouble?

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 30 Issue 3

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Front cover and publication information for this issue.