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Mammary Vowelindromes, Jeff Grant
Mammary Vowelindromes, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
The association between vowelindromes and the female breast, noted by Stephen Chism in the August 1993 Word Ways, is even more widespread than he realizes. Besides PAP and TIT, both part of the vowelindromes PAP-PEP-PIP-POP-PUP and TAT-TET-TIT-TOT-TUT, there exist BUB (a woman's breast) and DUD (a teat). The words in the corresponding vowelindromes BAB-BEB-BIB-BOB-BUB can all be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, and DAD-DED-DID-DOD-DUD in the English Dialect Dictionary.
Playing The Numbers Game, Al Greengold, Richard Lederer
Playing The Numbers Game, Al Greengold, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
The joys of word play abound all around, even in numbers. We often view figures as coldly symbolic rather than vibrantly verbal, but numerals really can be a lot of fun when we look at them logologically.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.
Gag Me With A Spoonerism, Richard Lederer
Gag Me With A Spoonerism, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
Perhaps you know somebody (and that somebody could be you!) who occasionally says pascetti or spaghetti, aminal for animal, and revelant for relevant. Each of these mispronunciations bespeaks a tendency to anticipate and, hence, to switch sounds between words.
Getting Around In Wordland, Leonard Gordon
Getting Around In Wordland, Leonard Gordon
Word Ways
Over the years, Word Ways has presented several articles on word chains and networks. It was obvious that the networks could be developed into mazes, but I, for one, did nothing about it because I considered mazes kid stuff. However, John Harris sent me a copy of a maze by Robert Abbott that appeared in the May 1991 Discover magazine which is not kid stuff.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 27 Issue 3
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 27 Issue 3
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Etaoin Shrdlu Non-Crashing Sets, Donald E. Knuth
Etaoin Shrdlu Non-Crashing Sets, Donald E. Knuth
Word Ways
The designers of the Linotype machine arranged its keyboard for optimum speed, assuming that the most common letters of English were e,t,a,o,i,n,s,h,r,d,l,u in that order. The Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition) has some amusing citations:
A La Merci Des Bad Farceurs, Paul Maxim
A La Merci Des Bad Farceurs, Paul Maxim
Word Ways
Editor's Note: THis is a promised sequel to "The Mallarme Cryptopuzzles" published in the August 1993 Word Ways.
The Alphabet And The Golden Ratio, Monte J. Zerger
The Alphabet And The Golden Ratio, Monte J. Zerger
Word Ways
Place the letters of the English alphabet (capitals) in a row and count five letters inward from either end. You will arrive at letters which are quite similar to their neighbors (on their inside), E to F and V to U. There is one other adjacent pair of letters resembling each other -- M and N. Because M and N mark the center of the alphabet, the three couples EF-MN-UV induce a natural pairing of the entire alphabet.
Word-Search Packing, A. Ross Eckler
Word-Search Packing, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Given a list of words, what is the minimum-area rectangle they can be packed into, using word-search rules for placement? Any word can read forward or backward, up or down, or in any of the four diagonal directions, but must be in a straight line.
Cheater's Palindromes: Part 3, Walter Fretlaw
Cheater's Palindromes: Part 3, Walter Fretlaw
Word Ways
Darryl Francis is the third of the four compilers of Cheater's palindromes which were originally featured in the November 1990 Kickshaws. As he is a Scrabble fanatic, many of his constructions are concerned with his adjudication of words played in games between the Greek god Janus and Jeff Grant.
A Myth About The Bard, J. Karl Franson
A Myth About The Bard, J. Karl Franson
Word Ways
"Hidden Bard" by Richard Lederer in the May 1994 Word Ways perpetuates what is almost certainly a myth, the Shakespeare assisted in the translation of the King James Bible (KJV) and encoded his name in the text. Mr. Lederer correctly points out an astonishing fact, known for many years, that in Psalm 46, the 46th words from beginning and ending, respectively, are shake and speare (if the final word Selah is omitted).
The Myseterious Advertisement, Ted Clarke
The Myseterious Advertisement, Ted Clarke
Word Ways
We are all amused by the results of foreign countries; efforts at translating their brochures and operating instructions into English. We should, however, give credit to them for at least trying. Would we, for example, do any better than the following letter, were we to try to translate our message into a foreign language.
The Game Of The Name, Nurse Pathos
The Game Of The Name, Nurse Pathos
Word Ways
When it comes to anagramming names, my own provides an embarrassment of riches and I sympathize with those whose names are stubborn in this respect. Few Word Ways' contributors have had their names anagrammed over the years, mainly because they are not suitable anagram material, but that is not always the case.
The Morristown Fables: Part 2, Peter Newby
The Morristown Fables: Part 2, Peter Newby
Word Ways
When Ross Begorrah's cuckoo clock developed laryngitis, he asked Mary, his shepherdess friend, to recommend an equally reliable replacement timekeeper. May was feeling drowsy from taking stock of her charges - she kept counting her pet lamb over and over again - so she did not pay Ross the full attention of her new bonnet, she mumbled a garbled reply to Ross's question. "Roe, dial and red," was what she actually said, but it was on the basis of this that Begorrah purchased an originally dumb bird.
New Palindromes, Jeff Grant
New Palindromes, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
The Palindromicon contains over 2300 palindromic words and names drawn from a wide variety of sources. Since publication of this work, hundreds of additional 'dromes have been added to this collection, and the current total is now approaching the 3000 mark.
A Maximal Panning Tree, A. Ross Eckler
A Maximal Panning Tree, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The five-letter word network given below is partitioned into 27 subnetworks, each having a unique vowel-consonant pattern (Y in first position is deemed a consonant, otherwise a vowel). All words are in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary; each subnetwork lists the total OSPD words in it.
The Ontological Problem, Lee Sallows
The Ontological Problem, Lee Sallows
Word Ways
Paying a recent call on my old friend Professor Eischwein, Transylvania's former leading logologist, I discovered him busy at work in his laboratory. "How's tricks, Professor?" I asked noting as I did that he was using a Bunsen burner to melt chocolate letters into a glass flask that was perched on one side of late letters into a glass flask that was perched on one side of the chemical balance.
Color Transposals, Darryl Francis
Color Transposals, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
In the November 1988 Kickshaws, Benjamin Zimmer presented the following list of transposals (marked with an asterisk) and transadditions of the names of the seven colors of the spectrum.
The Mating Game, Susan Thorpe, Peter Newby
The Mating Game, Susan Thorpe, Peter Newby
Word Ways
Shakespeare and Bowdler, Boswell and Johnson - the world has been holding its breath for the next great literary teaming, and here it is... Thorpe and Newby! To celebrate their association, they wish to pioneer in Word Ways a mild amusement, The Mating Game.
Coinicons: A New Word Game, Nyr Indictor
Coinicons: A New Word Game, Nyr Indictor
Word Ways
Here is a new word game that can be played by any number of people. To play the game, you must first learn these definitions. A coinicon is either a protoproot, and moreform, or an interreinevitive. A protoproot is a made-up word comprising a common prefix, followed by an anagram of that prefix.
A Card Trick Mnemonic Revisited, A. Ross Eckler
A Card Trick Mnemonic Revisited, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
In the November 1968 and the May 1977 Word Ways, I described the use of the word BIBLE ATLAS GOOSE THIGH as a mnemonic for performing a bit of card-reading "magic". Twenty playing cards are dealt face down in ten pairs and, while the magician's back is turned, the subject looks at and memorizes the cards of one pair. The twenty cards are then gathered into one pile, preserving the pairs, and dealt face up in a four-by-five array according to the mnemonic: the first two cards in the first and third positions of the first row (the two …
Wedded Words, Thomas L. Bernard
Wedded Words, Thomas L. Bernard
Word Ways
Just as the clergyman in the traditional wedding ceremony declares the happy couple to have become "man and wife", the following words seem to have become conjunctively and inextricably joined to each other.
The Last Mystery Of Lord Sunnday, Walter Shedlofsky
The Last Mystery Of Lord Sunnday, Walter Shedlofsky
Word Ways
Good evening, Ladies and Gentlemen. My name is Pilary King. I am your host for KMWA-TV's new series 'Odd Dramas'. Our odd drama tonight is the disappearance of mystery author Lord Sunnday. Two of the author's most popular tales were 'Purple Door Mystery' and 'Simulacrum's Mural Music'.
An Elegy, Howard W. Bergerson
An Elegy, Howard W. Bergerson
Word Ways
The following was written, with many tears, for the mothballed SSC (Superconducting Super Collider), in sorrow that the most powerful generation in all history would not bequeath and greater knowledge of the universe to posterity:
Kickshaws, David Morice