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Barcelona, Darryl Francis Nov 1992

Barcelona, Darryl Francis

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Summer, 1992: the World Olympics, Numerous hours of televised sport, early in the morning; throughout the day and evening, set watching hours of physical action, how about giving yourself some mental exercise?

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Gulf War Communiques, Howard Richler Nov 1992

Gulf War Communiques, Howard Richler

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During the Gulf War, all official commiques were written in English. Unlike Indo-European languages, Semitic languages like Hebrew and Arabic are written from right to left.

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Titles To Trace, Christopher Mcmanus Nov 1992

Titles To Trace, Christopher Mcmanus

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We are proud of our unparalleled collection of specialized encyclopedias. We are now trying to trace the whereabouts of the following lost volumes. Can you help complete our sets?

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The End Of The Word: J, Dan Tilque Nov 1992

The End Of The Word: J, Dan Tilque

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The letter J is the second least common last letter in English, exceeded in rarity only by Q. Words ending in J are sufficiently rare that it is feasible to compile a list of all such words.

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Mother Of Anagrams, Susan Thorpe Nov 1992

Mother Of Anagrams, Susan Thorpe

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Some mothers, as we all know, have definite delusions of grandeur and have to be brought gently down to earth. Endeavoring to distract my mother's attention from her latest "bete noir", I used a colloquialism when I said "DIG MENSA, MA", while explaining to her the round table organisation for people with high IQs.

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-Gry Words In The Oed, A. Ross Eckler Nov 1992

-Gry Words In The Oed, A. Ross Eckler

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Now that the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is available on the Cd-Rom (see review elsewhere in this issue), and phrase ending in -GRY is that august work - and, at the same time, check the diligence of those who previously mined out these words by hand. There are, in fact, only seven words not previously spotted in the OED by Word Ways researchers; these are labeled with + below. One of these, UNAGRY, was noted in another dictionary. Five are variants or compounds based on ANGRY and HUNGRY: NANGRY, LAND-HUNGRY, LEATHER-HUNGRY, MAN-HUNGRY, AND YEARD-HUNGRY. The last one, …

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Chit-Chat And Bibble-Babble, Leonard R. N. Ashley Nov 1992

Chit-Chat And Bibble-Babble, Leonard R. N. Ashley

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"Baa-baa" goes the sheep, "gusy-gusy" used to mean "macho", and birds go "tweet-tweet". I trust you will not be shattered, like "Humpty-Dumpty", by these request for reduplication.

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Kickshaws, David Morice Nov 1992

Kickshaws, David Morice

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A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

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Answers And Solutions Nov 1992

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

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

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Instructions To Authors Nov 1992

Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

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Some Conventional Anagrams, Mike Morton Nov 1992

Some Conventional Anagrams, Mike Morton

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Abstract unavailable.

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Foursquares:Four Letter Word Fun, Don Morrison Nov 1992

Foursquares:Four Letter Word Fun, Don Morrison

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The four-letter words in this article are neither offensive nor vulgar, and for the most part do not relate to excrement or copulation. This disavowal is made up front so that you won't waste time looking for the nonexistent X-rated words.

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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 25 Issue 4 Nov 1992

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 25 Issue 4

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Front cover and publication information for this issue.

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The Ugliest Words In English, A. Ross Eckler Nov 1992

The Ugliest Words In English, A. Ross Eckler

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More than twenty years ago, Wilfred Funk proposed chimes, dawn, golden , hush, lullaby, luminous, melody, mist, murmuring and tranquil as the ten most beautiful words of the English language. More recently, Willard Espy generated gonorrhea, gossamer, lullaby, meandering, mellifluous, murmuring, onomatopoeia, Shenandoah, summer after and wisteria for the "Book of Lists #2" (1980).

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One Sup Honor Thyme, Peter Newby Aug 1992

One Sup Honor Thyme, Peter Newby

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I Love To Be Squoze, Mary Christie Craig Aug 1992

I Love To Be Squoze, Mary Christie Craig

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In early April 1992, out local newspaper carried a syndicated piece titled "Best of the Worst Country Song Titles" by Mike Harden.

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The Poet's Corner Aug 1992

The Poet's Corner

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From time to time, Word Ways receives a variety of short poems related to recreational linguistics, some original, other previously published. As poetic output cannot be easily predicted, these will be presented on an irregular basis.

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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 25 Number 3 Aug 1992

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 25 Number 3

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Front cover and publication information for this issue.

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Reflexicons, Lee Sallows Aug 1992

Reflexicons, Lee Sallows

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A lexicon is a dictionary or a list of words. Hence my use of "reflexive lexicon" or, more crisply, reflexicon, for a self-descriptive word list that describes its own own letter frequencies:

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Colloquy Aug 1992

Colloquy

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A collection of responses to previously published articles.

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On Pruning Trees For Pangrams, Leonard Gordon Aug 1992

On Pruning Trees For Pangrams, Leonard Gordon

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In the February and May issues of Word Ways, Lee Sallows describes how he constructed a pangram machine (a special-purpose digital computer) to discover self-referential sentences of the form "This sentence contains five a's, two b's, ... and one z", after he realized that the program he had written for a general-purpose digital computer would trake 31.7 million years to run. There's no doubt that building the pangram machine was a personally satisfying accomplishment -- although I am afraid that it became his Galatea.

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Ann Owed, Hugh Denham Aug 1992

Ann Owed, Hugh Denham

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I have been asked to right a ballad about a Laud of the Manna, Col. P. Riley of Great Holkham. As my spelling is sometimes a bit shaky, I ran my composition through the spelling check on the word processor; fortunately the programme did know discover any mistakes:

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Another Palindromic Insertion, Jeff Grant Aug 1992

Another Palindromic Insertion, Jeff Grant

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In the November 1982 issue of Word Ways, I exhibited a palindromic alphabetic insertion based on AA, a type of rought, scoriaceous lava. A complete list of 26 words was found, starting with AAA, ABA, ACA ... through the AZA.

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A Third Olympic Quiz, Darryl Francis Aug 1992

A Third Olympic Quiz, Darryl Francis

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In August 1976, Word Ways presented a quiz of mine called "An Olympic Quiz". Readers were given 60 common words, ranging in length from one to seven letters, and asked to combine each of these in turn with the letters of OLYMPIC to make a new word. For example, GALA plus OLYMPIC gives POLYGAMICAL, and REACH plus OLYMPIC gives both MICROCEPHALY and PYROCHEMICAL.

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Prehistory In Action, Chris Cole Aug 1992

Prehistory In Action, Chris Cole

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Molecular geneticists propose that all living human beings are descendants of a single woman who lived about 350,000 years ago. Evolutionary linguists propose that the cladogram of all human languages follows closely the cladogram of the molecular geneticists. Does it then folow that all of modern English derives from the language spoken by our prehistoric mother? And, if so, how is it that synonyms arise?

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Love Letters, Gary Roma Aug 1992

Love Letters, Gary Roma

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Words are but lucky letters. How do letters get lucky? They go to bars. Let's have a look.

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Junctures: An Abecedum, Alfred Lubran Aug 1992

Junctures: An Abecedum, Alfred Lubran

Word Ways

Editor's Note: Alfred Lubran's article was inspired by the note on page 164 of David Crystal's "The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language" (reviewed in the November 1991 Word Ways); his examples of A, I, N, and T are reproduced below. All words can be found in Chambers English Dictionary.

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Pigpen-Cipher-Invertible Squares, John Bulten Aug 1992

Pigpen-Cipher-Invertible Squares, John Bulten

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In "Maggie Had a Little Pigpen" in the May 1991 Word Ways, Peter Newby pointed out that if a 3-by-3 word square was encoded using the pigpen cipher and inverted, it might be possible to read off another 3-by-3 square upon decoding.

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Oh, Cello Full Of Echoes, Herbert Pfeiffer Aug 1992

Oh, Cello Full Of Echoes, Herbert Pfeiffer

Word Ways

Editor's Note: Readers may recall Herbert Pfeiffer's palindromic poem, "Plaudere, du Alp!" reputedly the longest palindrome in German, printed with a partial translation in May 1985 Word Ways.

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Kickshaws, David Morice Aug 1992

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

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