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Double Word Squares, Jeff Grant
Double Word Squares, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
Regular word squares have the same terms across and down, whereas double word squares have different ones. Examples of both types at the relatively simple four-letter level are shown below.
Chinese Stepladders, Leonard J. Gordon
Chinese Stepladders, Leonard J. Gordon
Word Ways
Word Ways readers are familiar with Lewis Carroll's word ladders. As a variation, Dave Morice suggested in the August 1989 Kicksaws a game which he called Stepladders. Two words join only if the letters which are exchanged are adjacent to each other in the alphabet.
Acknowledging The Corn, Peter Newby
Acknowledging The Corn, Peter Newby
Word Ways
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer was born in England on May 2, 1810. He was graduated from Cambridge University with first class hours in 1836. Within five years, Dr. Brewer's first book, "A Guide to Science," was published, and by 1905 it had gone through 47 editions and sold 319,000 copies in England alone.
The Linguistic Genetic Message, Anthony Sebastian
The Linguistic Genetic Message, Anthony Sebastian
Word Ways
In his "Essay on Man," Alexander Pope exhorted, "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; / The proper study of Mankind is Man. / ...The glory, jest, and riddle of the world." To know ourselves is to know the information in the seed from which we sprouted -- we are at least in part the chemical expression of the message encoded by our genes. I suggest that there is encoded in our genes also a linguistic message, a message which semantic content, and that Man is now in a position to decipher it.
Some Capital States?, Faith Eckler
Some Capital States?, Faith Eckler
Word Ways
With the hope of improving the quality of their lives, many folks are turning to published listings of the most desirable states in which to live. These guides use many indicators to rate locations, such as job opportunities, incidence of crime, climate, recreational facilities and access to medical care.
Funny Plurals, Chris Cole
Funny Plurals, Chris Cole
Word Ways
"Humor" has been defined as the sudden occurrence of the unexpected. A funny (humorous) plural, it follows by logologic, is a plural that ends with an unexpected letter. Since most plurals in English are formed by adding an S to the singular, plurals that end with other letters are funny (strange).
Kickshaws, David Morice
He's A Dirty Bird, Mary Stewart Craig
He's A Dirty Bird, Mary Stewart Craig
Word Ways
Editor's Note: Can you find the 83 birds concealed in this story? Answers can be found in Answers and Solutions.
Mississauga, Canada's Oddest City, Howard Richler
Mississauga, Canada's Oddest City, Howard Richler
Word Ways
The numerical positions of all the vowels in the alphabet are odd numbers. Designating their placement by number, we get A=1, E=5, I=9, O=15, U=21 and Y=25. Thus, only words that have no vowels, like NTH (14-20-8) can be written with letters whose numeric alphabetic position is strictly even.
Spanagrams, Lee Sallows
Spanagrams, Lee Sallows
Word Ways
In "The New Merology" (Word Ways, February 1990) I discussed how distinct integers could be assigned to letters so as to produce "perfect" English number words whos gematric value is then equal to the number named.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 25 Number 1
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 25 Number 1
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Halfway Words, Christopher Mcmanus
Halfway Words, Christopher Mcmanus
Word Ways
Letters and numerals stand as atoms and opposing symbols of basic dichotomy: literature versus science, intuition versus logic, creativity versus automation. Since the gematria of Biblical times, mankind has delighted to marry the two elements by forms of letter arithmetic.
In Quest Of A Pangram (Part 1), Lee Sallows
In Quest Of A Pangram (Part 1), Lee Sallows
Word Ways
In the August 1991 Word Ways, Douglas Greenwood mentions Kee Dewdney's widely-referenced Scientific American account of my search for a self-descriptive pangram (1). In fact, Dewdney's column was based on a long and rather technical article of mine that appeared subsequently in Abacus (2). The following is a shortened adaptation of the first part of the original.
Collectible Words, Alfred Lubran
On "Hindutva" And A "Hindu-Catholic," With A Moral For Our Times, Julius Lipner
On "Hindutva" And A "Hindu-Catholic," With A Moral For Our Times, Julius Lipner
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
The purpose of this article is to comment on the term hindutva, viz. "Hinduness," with special reference to a 19th century Bengali thinker who sought to indigenise his Christian faith, and to draw some topical conclusions. The thinker is Brahmabandhab Upadhyay (1861-1907) whom his sometime friend, Rabindranath Tagore, Bengal's greatest luminary, described as "a Roman Catholic ascetic, yet a Vedantin -- spirited, fearless, self-denying, erudite and uncommonly influential." No doubt Upadhyay was influential then; he had a powerful impact on Tagore himself especially when they were jointly establishing what would later develop as Tagore's brainchild of Santiniketan. For years previously …
Book Review: "Philosphy Of Religion In Hindu Thought", Klaus K. Klostermaier
Book Review: "Philosphy Of Religion In Hindu Thought", Klaus K. Klostermaier
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Philosophy of Religion in Hindu Thought, translated and edited by Anand Amaladass.
Book Review: "Inter-Faith Dialogue And World Community", David C. Scott
Book Review: "Inter-Faith Dialogue And World Community", David C. Scott
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
A review of Inter-Faith Dialogue and World Community edited by Ch. Sreenivasa Rao.
Sex, American Cities And Palindromes, Howard Richler
Sex, American Cities And Palindromes, Howard Richler
Word Ways
In my May 1991 Word Ways article on composing palindromes, I discussed how to make palindromes by starting with a central core and moving outward. Thus, the mini-palindrome NOT ON can be expanded into STRESSED? NOW ON DESSERTS! because the balance between stressed and desserts (stressed in reverse) maintains the palindrome's equilibrium.
Able Was I Ere I Saw Yreka Bakery, Alfred Allen
Able Was I Ere I Saw Yreka Bakery, Alfred Allen
Word Ways
Editor's Note: The following appeared in the Sacramento Bee of June 10, 1973, and was sent in by the late R. Robinson Rowe.
Triplets: An Added Dimension, Peter Newby
Triplets: An Added Dimension, Peter Newby
Word Ways
When I introduced the concept of Triplets in "Pears Word Games" the emphasis was upon witty word transformations such as turning WATER into WINE as featured in the February 1991 Kickshaws. In addition I deomonstrated the dramatic shapes one could achieve such as that illustrated alongside which builds up from a valid single-letter word to the largest word possible and returns to a different single-letter word without repeating any word. Yet a third type was featured which is of no consequence to this discussion but all three had the factors in common of being single-word transformations without any restriction upon …
Hodgepodge, John Ferguson
Hodgepodge, John Ferguson
Word Ways
The list of words below is made up of five categories, each category with twenty entries and having its own rule. Place 99 words in front of the 99 entries, and then, after placing the proper 100th word in front of TOWN, show where it belongs on the list. Try first the fifteen (easier) words given in boldface.
Shakespearean Telesonnet Program, David Morice
Shakespearean Telesonnet Program, David Morice
Word Ways
WELCOME TO THE SHAKESPEAREAN TELESONNET PROGRAM. IF YOU WILL TYPE YOUR PHONE NUMBER AND A FRIEND'S, I WILL CREATE A NEW SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET. TRY IT.
Alice-Slice-Slick-Slack-Snack-Snark, A. Ross Eckler
Alice-Slice-Slick-Slack-Snack-Snark, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Lewis Caroll, inventor of Doublet (word ladders), would no doubt have been charmed by the one given to the title, connecting ALICE and SNARK in a minimum number of steps. He would have been even more pleased with "Boojum!", a musical comedy on his life, work and ideas, composed by Australian brother Peter and Martin Wesley-Smith, and presented at the 1986 Adelaide Festival of the Arts and four times in November 1988 by the Sydney Philharmonia Society.
Deaf Aged Cabbage Dead, Peter Wesley-Smith, Martin Wesley-Smith
Deaf Aged Cabbage Dead, Peter Wesley-Smith, Martin Wesley-Smith
Word Ways
Round, in four parts, from Boojum!
M.G.M -- A Palindromic Legend, Peter Newby
M.G.M -- A Palindromic Legend, Peter Newby
Word Ways
PEPSI IS PEP. This famous palindromic slogan was, so it is alleged, coined by the Hollywood legend Joan Crawford when she and her husband ran the soft-drink conglomerate. Others attribute it to the movie historian Bert N. Weepy, though I would not be surprised if it transpired that yet a third name cam under the investigative scrutiny of logological research. But, could the movie queen be the true coiner? To find the answer, we must examine the attitudes to word play in her cinematic thespian days.
On Staging "Boojum!", Martin Wesley-Smith
On Staging "Boojum!", Martin Wesley-Smith
Word Ways
Boojum! was originally performed as a stage musical a dozen or so times by State Opera of South Australia, at t he 1986 Adelaide Festival of Arts; the opening night was attended by Queen Elizabeth II. It was generally regarded as a success, but I was most unhappy with the treatment it received from the director, who rewrote large parts of the show, contrary to an agreement that this would not occur.