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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 27 Issue 2 May 1994

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 27 Issue 2

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

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Packing Words, Leonard Gordon May 1994

Packing Words, Leonard Gordon

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What is the minimum rectangular area in which one can pack precisely N words of length L? All must be joined in criss-cross fashion, and no words of other lengths are allowed. The main point is to find the packing patterns; finding real (and, if possible, common) words to fit those patterns adds interest, converting a purely mathematical problem to a logological one as well. The patterns derived here may be used in conventional crossword or other puzzles.

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Incompatible Strings, Lee Sallows May 1994

Incompatible Strings, Lee Sallows

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The following chessboard pattern is a template for the words ONE to NINE.

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Shalom! Salaam!, Howard Richler May 1994

Shalom! Salaam!, Howard Richler

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The following dialogue comes from a tape which records the clinching negotiation session between Palestinian and Israeli officials in Oslo, Norway. Strangely, all sentences are English palindromes; they read the same backwards as frontwards.

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Fourwords, Anthony Sebastian, Renee Merriam May 1994

Fourwords, Anthony Sebastian, Renee Merriam

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Of the thousands of patients with aphasia whom we have studied in our fifty combined years of neurological practice, one of the most interesting was a 44-year-old man, whom we refer to as Rufo, who, following a seemingly-minor blow to his head, developed a highly-specific expressive aphasia: he lost the ability to utter the word four. The logological implications of the case might interest the readers of Word Ways.

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Two-Consonant Sentences, A. Ross Eckler May 1994

Two-Consonant Sentences, A. Ross Eckler

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On Devember 19, 1993, puzzlermaster Will Shortz of the Weekend Edition on National Public Radio challenged his listeners to construct sentences using only two consonants, such as "Can Connie, a nice niece in Canaan, can-can on a canoe in uncanny innocence?" or "Suppose a pious pope possesses a spouse - oops!". He added "entries will be judged on wit, originality, elegance and naturalness of phrasing". Counting different consonant-choices by the same person as separate entries, nearly 200 poured in during the next two weeks. The most fecund entry was DN, with 39 different contestants represented, closely followed by ST with …

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Hidden Bard, Richard Lederer May 1994

Hidden Bard, Richard Lederer

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William Shakespeare, who both entered and exited the earthly stage on April 23, lurks in the most astonishing places - in the words he coined (laughable, majestic), his compounds (fancy free, foregone conclusion) and his expressions (there's the rub, vanish into thin air).

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Colloquy May 1994

Colloquy

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A collection of responses to previously published articles.

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Arithmetical Morphology, Ted Clarke May 1994

Arithmetical Morphology, Ted Clarke

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Several recent Word Ways articles have used the word mathematics in studies of the morphology of words. Mathematics is a word, but the study of the numbers and disposition of letters in words doesn't merit the label mathematics. Counting and segregating words, and letters in them, seems only to require the use of arithmetic.

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Goose Thighs Rehashed, Christopher Mcmanus May 1994

Goose Thighs Rehashed, Christopher Mcmanus

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One day during his last illness, my father suddenly remembered a car trick from his boyhood. The trick involved the Latin mnemonic MUTUS NOMEN DEDIT COCIS. Everyone was astonished that a nonesense phrase had lain dormant in his mind's deepest recesses for more than sixty years, then sprung serendipitously to his weakened senses.

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The Morristown Fables: Part 1, Peter Newby May 1994

The Morristown Fables: Part 1, Peter Newby

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"Faith and Begorrah", muttered the leprechaun of Moricetown as he moored his canoe in a garden pond of a house in New Jersey. He had carried his mode of transport all the way from the po box he lived in in Iowa City, and was exhausted by his efforts. Nevertheless, he was proud of his craft with its name, Dilling, emblazoned on its prow. The Moricetown leprechaun was deeply emblazoned on its prow. The Moricetown leprechaun was deeply attached to his canoe, Dilling, which he rarely confined to water. Hence, he had taken it with him on his visit to …

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'Cause The Bible Told Me So, Martin Gardner May 1994

'Cause The Bible Told Me So, Martin Gardner

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To The Editor: For years I have been entertained by letters calling attention to what the Bible has to say about homosexuality, masturbation, wine drinking, and kindred topics. Are these letter writers aware, I wonder, that the Old Testament condones smoking?

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Cheater's Palindromes: Part 2, Walter Fretlaw May 1994

Cheater's Palindromes: Part 2, Walter Fretlaw

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In the November 1993 issue of Word Ways, I discussed the tantalizing palindromic skill of Jeff Grant. This time I wish to spotlight the second of the four 1990 Kickshaws compilers of Cheater's Palindromes, Peter Newby.

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The Aeginrst Transposal: Part 2, Jeff Grant May 1994

The Aeginrst Transposal: Part 2, Jeff Grant

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GRISANTE the surname of three individuals listed in the 1992 Erie County TD. Saint GRISANTE is another name for St. Chrysanthu of Daria, according to BMGC.

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The Evolution Of A Transposal Set, Darryl Francis May 1994

The Evolution Of A Transposal Set, Darryl Francis

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During its two decades of existence, Word Ways has presented transposals in one form or another in almost every issue. These are invariably presented as a given set of words which are mutually transposable, with no description of how they are discovered. I thought it might be worthwhile to examine in more detail than usual how a set of transposals can evolve.

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Evolutionary Anagrams, Susan Thorpe May 1994

Evolutionary Anagrams, Susan Thorpe

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Only three phrases on evolutionary topics are anagrammed in the Word WaysMonograph "The New Anagrammasia":

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Somalia: Wail, Amos! May 1994

Somalia: Wail, Amos!

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A (5,4) Word Chain Network, Leonard Gordon May 1994

A (5,4) Word Chain Network, Leonard Gordon

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On February 27, 1994, I heard Will Shortz on National Public Radio announce the winner of a contest to form the longest possible (5,4) word chain using words from Webster's 10th Collegiate. A Tulane professor came up with the eight-step SCAP-CRAPE-RAPES-APEST-PESTO-ESTOP-STOPE-TOPER-OPERA (which can be represented in compressed form as SCRAPESTOPERA).

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A Presidential Word-Search, Ted Clarke May 1994

A Presidential Word-Search, Ted Clarke

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King's-Move Word Packing, A. Ross Eckler May 1994

King's-Move Word Packing, A. Ross Eckler

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In chess, a king can move to nay of the eight adjacent squares on the board - up, down, left, right, and the four diagonals. One can construct logological challenges by inserting letters on individual squares of a chessboard (extended, if necessary, beyond its 8x8 limits), and spelling out words by moving from letter to letter via king's moves.

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Kickshaws, David Morice May 1994

Kickshaws, David Morice

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A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

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An Abelian Alphabet?, Bernard E. M. Wren May 1994

An Abelian Alphabet?, Bernard E. M. Wren

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A curious problem may be stated very simply for those familiar with the language of mathematics. Consider the free group on the 26 letters of the alphabet, with transposals as relations; is the group Abelian?

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Wordplay On Computer Networks, Mark Saltveit May 1994

Wordplay On Computer Networks, Mark Saltveit

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The Internet is a web of linked computer networks set up initially by the US government. Each computer network on the Internet shares certain data formats and commands, so that anyone on a member network can send electronic mail (email) to anyone else. To enter the Internet, one must first join (an establish an account on) one of the thousands of member networks worldwide. Those networks (free to students and faculty), or a national commercial network such as Compuserve or America On Line. These charge monthly fees plus $4-$12 per hour. Prodigy does not yet offer Internet services, and America …

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Whence The Name Of Nancy Drew?, Robert F. Fleissner May 1994

Whence The Name Of Nancy Drew?, Robert F. Fleissner

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In an essay on Charles Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," in the Journal of American Name Society [1], I added an endnote to the effect that the name of the celebrated teenage crime unraveler, Nancy Drew, may derive from Dickensian sources: a conflation of the heroine's name, Nancy, from "Oliver Twist" along with Drood from the mystery novel bearing that surname.

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Rare Maps For Correctors, Lee Sallows May 1994

Rare Maps For Correctors, Lee Sallows

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In "Rare Maps For Collectors" in the November Word Ways, I presented a mapping between integers and letters for producing "perfect" German number names. However, Hans Havermann in Colloquy has questioned my German spelling. He is right to do so; I have confused German und with Dutch en, to produce nonsensical bilingual compounds such as einenzwanzig instead of einundzwanzig.

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The Language Of Business, Leonard R. N. Ashley May 1994

The Language Of Business, Leonard R. N. Ashley

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The bottom line is that business has a jargon all its own. How many of these business words and phrases can make it your business to define? If you get more than half of them right, expect a personal discount the next time you deal with us.

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Answers And Solutions May 1994

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles in this issue.

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Back Cover May 1994

Back Cover

Word Ways

Back cover of this issue including instructions to authors.

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Political Palindromes, Mark Saltveit Feb 1994

Political Palindromes, Mark Saltveit

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Kickshaws, David Morice Feb 1994

Kickshaws, David Morice

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A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

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