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Gypsy Hobby Gry, Harry B. Partridge
Gypsy Hobby Gry, Harry B. Partridge
Word Ways
As I dismounted from my mule in the courtyard in front of the low two-storeyed gray-stone farmhouse, the windowless door opened and out stepped a besmocked Dr. Wombat. Greeting me and my mule with equal cordiality, he ushered the latter into a spacious room on the ground floor and me to a cozy parlor on the second where Mlle, de Carabas was roasting chestnuts. Soon we were all seated before the grateful fire, drinking eggnog, and exchanging news. The masia was about twenty miles inside Spain from Port d'Oo.
Viewpoints: In Dialogue With Hindus? My Experience And Reflections, Sr. Vandana
Viewpoints: In Dialogue With Hindus? My Experience And Reflections, Sr. Vandana
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies
Today, in our pluralistic global village, with its technological civilization, ecological disasters, socio-economic-political oppression apparently crumbling churches, and religion seemingly becoming increasingly redundant especially in the West, wondrous vistas are opened up in the spiritual world. For, I do believe, that as religions in past centuries often served to divide us, in the coming decades and century, spirituality will unite us more and more. "Indeed the hour is coming and is already here ... when the Father will be worshipped in spirit and in truth" (John 4.23-24), irrespective of religions. Today too, it is hardly possible to be a good …
Literate Cryptarithmetic, Peter Newby
Literate Cryptarithmetic, Peter Newby
Word Ways
The hybridization of words and numbers finds its classic expression in cryptarithmetic . In my view, cryptarithmetic has two distinct forms, the cryptarithms of the codebreakers, and the witty constructions of the wordsmiths. Codebreakers (most notably the members of the internationally-respected American Cryptogram Association) produce algebraic puzzles with meaningless collections of letters which appeal to the mathematically inclined. The teasers produced by the wordsmiths are far more difficult to devise but usually much easier to solve. This article is concerned with the latter, which for want of a better term I call literary cryptarithms.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 22 Number 3
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 22 Number 3
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
In Goodly Gree: With Goodwill, George H. Scheetz
In Goodly Gree: With Goodwill, George H. Scheetz
Word Ways
I know that I was aware of the -gry puzzle by 1976 because, during the spring of that year, I clipped a newspaper advertisement solely because it contained the name Hungry Bungry. The version I remember was simple: "There are three words in English which end in -gry. What are they?"
10-By-10 Squares: Another Update, Frank Rubin
10-By-10 Squares: Another Update, Frank Rubin
Word Ways
It has now been one year since I began my computer search for 10x10 double word square. My efforts have been directed against three main obstacles: the need to obtain a massive number of words, the limited speed of a personal computer, and its limited storage.
"Palindrome" Trans-3-Deletions, Tom Pulliam
"Palindrome" Trans-3-Deletions, Tom Pulliam
Word Ways
Three letters can be deleted from PALINDROME in 120 different ways. In "Palindrome and Palindromes" in the August 1989 Word Ways. Darryl Francis rearranged ten sets of remaining letters to form words. Here, I present one or more words formed out of 62 remainders. Unlabeled words are found in Webster's Third Edition: inferred forms are indicated with parentheses.
Colloquy
Word Ways
Every good anagram is, in some sense, apposite to the subject being anagrammed. This being so, the most important task I set myself in finding an anagram is the creation of an associative word list. That is, I first establish a number of descriptors which fit the subject being anagrammed in some recognizable way, and then look for words that can be formed out of the letter stock which match those descriptors.
Lewis Carroll's Word Ladders, Leonard J. Gordon
Lewis Carroll's Word Ladders, Leonard J. Gordon
Word Ways
My knowledge of the history of word ladders comes from two books "The Magic of Lewis Carroll" by John Fisher (1973), and "The Oxford Guide to Word Games" by Tony Augarde (1984). It is not necessary to describe word ladders to the readers of Word Ways; in any event the concept should be ovbious from the examples. Carroll started writing about what he called Doublets in 1879; he had originally called them Word Links. The idea, of course, is to find the shortest ladder between a pair of words.
"Palindrome" Transadditions, Tom Pulliam
"Palindrome" Transadditions, Tom Pulliam
Word Ways
In his article "Palindrome and Palindromes" in the August 1989 Word Ways, Darryl Francis listed a few transaddtions of the word PALINDROME, Eye-ppunishing searches of Webster's Second and Third have revealed many more; the full list is given below.
Is English Gematria?, Barry Chamish
Is English Gematria?, Barry Chamish
Word Ways
Gematria is an ancient, artimetically-based method of deciphering the Torah. Joshua S. Persky, an American-born Israeli, is convinced that the principles of gematria are invaluable for letting the linguist peek into a subconscious basis for the formation of English words and phrases. Writing under the pseudonym of Peter K. Peterson, he develops his thesis by example in "English is Gematria" (Apocalypse Press, Jerusalem, 1988). If he is right, then a radical new linguistic theory has been proposed.
To Free Up A Wealth Of Shining Promise, Pete Stickland
To Free Up A Wealth Of Shining Promise, Pete Stickland
Word Ways
In "The Meaning or Purpose of Life" in the May 1989 Word Ways, John Henrick generated five anagrams of WHAT IS THE MEANING OR PURPOSE OF LIFE, and invited readers to "extend what one hopes will become a significant collection in its own right." Accepting his challenge, I constructed 206 more anagrams, arranging them in 52 rhymed quatrains beginning with his original phrase and ending with his WINNIE-THE-POOH, SUFFER PIGLET'S AROMA. None of my anagrams surpasses the verve of Henrick's masterpiece. It says it all: if a fictitious bear can bear a fictitious pig, why not men men, men …
An Adventurous Ramble In The Congo, Milos Emhecht
An Adventurous Ramble In The Congo, Milos Emhecht
Word Ways
Article written in a foreign language.
Suffix Quiz, Maxey Brooke
Suffix Quiz, Maxey Brooke
Word Ways
One characteristic of the English language is its extensive use of affixes, and of suffixes in particular. Indeed, a dictionary count shows that some 45 per cent of the words listed are suffixed, including 2 per cent that are double-suffixed (nothingness, particularize, etc.).
Maori Rolls Update, Jeff Grant
Maori Rolls Update, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
In the August 1984 Word Ways, I presented a number of logologically-interesting names from the New Zealand Maori electoral rolls. Checking of other rolls has revealed additional names worthy of mention. Note that a large number of these names are not Maori, but from rother Pacific Island languages such as Samoan, Tongan, and Niuean.
The Biggest Hoax, Chris Cole
The Biggest Hoax, Chris Cole
Word Ways
The biggest (i.e., longest) word that appears in the Merriam-Webster dictionaries and the Oxford English Dictionary is the 45-letter PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSPICSILICOVOCANOCONIOSIS. It now appears that this word occurs to to a hoax perpetrated by members of the National Puzzlers League. If true, this is surely one of the greatest ironies on the history of logology.
Famous Scrabble Quotes, John Holgate
Famous Scrabble Quotes, John Holgate
Word Ways
Some famous people have dabbled in Scrabble: Richard Burton, King Farouk, Omar Sharif, President Nixon and Martina Navratilova; to name a few. But there are many other celebrities who, in the course of a game, have uttered immortal comments which have since become part and parcel of the Scrabble player's vernacular.
Beyond Automynorcagrams, Richard Rankin
Beyond Automynorcagrams, Richard Rankin
Word Ways
While doing research for an unrelated article, I stumbled upon Howard W. Bergerson's 1975 article in Word Ways, "Automynorcagrams". This is a logological form in which the nth word of the text must begin with the nth character in the text. According to Bergerson, the idea behind the automynorcagram is to create a "self-propelling and partially self-replicating logological entity".
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 22 Number 3
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 22 Number 3
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
The Aceinorst Transposal Problem, Dmitri A. Borgmann
The Aceinorst Transposal Problem, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
In "Language on Vacation" (1965), I presented 17 transposals of the 9 letters ACEINORST. For the time in the history of logology, the feat was a record-setting one.
The Structure Of A Word Network, A. Ross Eckler
The Structure Of A Word Network, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
A word network consists of a collection of words of the same length, in which any two words that differ by only a single letter in one position (such as EAT and FAT, or STORE and SWORE) are joined by a link. A word ladder, originally invented by Lewis Carroll, joins two words in a network to each other by means of a path traced through successive links (such as EAT-BAT-BAND-BIN-PIN). Ordinarily, there are many such possible paths involving many different intermediate words.
"English For Today" Anagrammed, Barry Tunick
"English For Today" Anagrammed, Barry Tunick
Word Ways
O, Lady of the Rings, angry is the flood of the godly rains.
Palindrome And Palindromes, Darryl Francis
Palindrome And Palindromes, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Long-time Word Ways readers will remember previous articles of mine where I take a particular word (or group of letters) and then transpose it, transdelete it, transadd it, and so on. For example,e i have subjected CAROLINE, NEUSTRIA and the letters ACEINORST to such manipulation. Two further words which i Have been examining carefully are PALINDROME and PALINDROMES. In this article, I look at various surgeries which can be performed on these two words.
The Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Jeff Grant
The Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
I first met Great Uncle Derwent and Great Aunt Dolly when I was a young boy. Already mad about words, it didn't take me long to discover the treasure in their bookcase. On the bottom shelf, looking slightly worse for wear, was "The Encyclopaedic Dictionary," published between 1886 and 1890, by Cassell and Company of London, Paris and New York. I spent an hour poring over the first of its seven volumes, eagerly examining the unfamiliar terms and admiring the many detailed illustrations. The old man couldn't help but notice my fascination, even though he was engaged in a lively …