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Double, Triple, And Quadruple Bigrams, Kyle Corbin
Double, Triple, And Quadruple Bigrams, Kyle Corbin
Word Ways
A bigram is any sequence of two consecutive letters found in a word, such as OG in dOG. A double bigram is a bigram that occurs twice in succession, such as OGOG in mOGOGraphia. Bigrams can be extended to triple, such as OGOGOG in lOGOGOGue, and quaduple, such as KUKUKUKU, which is itself a word.
The Bwbachod, Don Laycock
The Bwbachod, Don Laycock
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Bwbachod, pronounced boo-ba-khod. Welsh brownies whose outstanding characteristic is a dislike of teetotallers and dissenting ministers (Dictionary of Fairies).
Spreadsheet Logology: Letter-Shifts, Anthony Sebastian
Spreadsheet Logology: Letter-Shifts, Anthony Sebastian
Word Ways
This article describes a personal computer spreadsheet model (template) that aids in searching for alphabetical letter-shift word-pairs (e.g., cheer-jolly, shift-value 7). It complements my November 1988 Word Ways article demonstrating how non-computer-experts can tap the computer's power for logological studies by using commercially-available, inexpensive spreadsheet applications programs like Lotus 1-2-3. A motivated novice with little experience using personal computers can learn to use a spreadsheet application program in a few hours.
America Is A British Village, Peter Newby
America Is A British Village, Peter Newby
Word Ways
One of the charms of Word Ways is to discover the more offbeat communities of the United States which feature in the various articles of its contributors. THis factors has even extended to my first reply from a reader of the magazine to my recent request for words of an unusual lexical property ("A Trivial Challenge", February 1989); Martin Gardner drew my attention to the alternate Os of the Wisconsin town Oconomowoc. However, Great Britain has its share of the curiously-named towns and Villages, and a small selection of these may be of interest.
Imaginary People For You To Meet, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Imaginary People For You To Meet, Leonard R. N. Ashley
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Words that have been made out of people's names, such as boycott and forsythia, are known as eponyms. However, there appears to be no name for the inverse process, that of creating fictitious names to describe generic behavior or inanimate objects. What behavior or objects do the following names stand for?
The Aeilnorst Problem, Darryl Francis
The Aeilnorst Problem, Darryl Francis
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The August 1989 issue of Word Ways offered Dmitri Borgmann's article "The ACEINORST Transposal Problem". In that article, Dmitri asked if the nine-letter group AEILNORST could produce more transposals than the ACEINORST group. Dmitri began by offering six transposals from various collegiate dictionaries: ORIENTALS, ORLEANIST, RELATIONS, SEROTINAL, TENSORIAL, and TIROLEANS.
Nomen Est Ominous, John Holgate
Nomen Est Ominous, John Holgate
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There have been 23 Prime Ministers of Australia since Federation in 1901. Eighteen of their surnames (and twenty of their Christian names) satisfy Dmitri Borgmann's ultimate logological law, the requirement that "all designations...begin with letters in the first half of the English alphabet" ("History Reinterpreted", Word Ways February 1987).
A Type Of Crypt, Faith W. Eckler
A Type Of Crypt, Faith W. Eckler
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It had been a bad week at the CIA. Tensions were building in the Middle East, and unrest was spreading throughout the United States, particularly on college campuses. Young student terrorists were threatening to bomb government offices, and the President was considering declaring a national emergency and calling out the National Guard.
Electronic Word Search Programs, Anthony Sebastian
Electronic Word Search Programs, Anthony Sebastian
Word Ways
Spelling anxiety is no affliction for writers who use electronic typewriters or personal computer (PC) word processing programs that provide so-called spell checking (see "The Electronic Spell" by Faith Eckler in the May 1988 Word Ways). Writers can choose to be notified (via beep) immediately after typing a word incorrectly, or they can invoke global spell checking after completing a manuscript. Most built-in spell checkers both identify a misspelled word and try to "guess" the word intended, offering a candidate list of correctly spelled alternatives from a database ranging in size from 40,000 to over 100,000 words.
A Seat In Loge A, Edward W. Wolpow
A Seat In Loge A, Edward W. Wolpow
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In his book "Philosophy Through The Looking Glass" (Open Court, La Salle IL, 1985). Jean-Jacques Lecercle concerns himself with a variety of perversion which Michel Pierssens termed logophilia, "...the love of language that knows no bounds, certainly not those of common sense" In his exposition upon delire, the point where grammar and madness meet, he introduces us to several obscure French writers and contrasts their varieties of delire with the more patterned and orderly nonsense of Lewis Carroll.
Lead Quayle In!, David Morice
Lead Quayle In!, David Morice
Word Ways
After reading the in-depth interview of President Bush in the February Word Ways, I decided to contact Vice President Quayle and ask him some tough questions. Quayle's secretary informed me that Bush was so pleased with the Morton interview that he issued an order, called the Mome Memo, which officially mandated all government personnel to speak and write in anagrams based on any variants of their names. Naturally, a few people had to change their names to comply with the new rule. The vice president decided to limit himself to the letters in DANIEL QUAYLE since they are the …
Medical Curiosities, John Holgate
Medical Curiosities, John Holgate
Word Ways
Anybody infected by the humour of Ash and Lake's "Bizzare Books" (particularly Chapter 2, "The Right Person for the job") will be continually on the lookout for similar bibliographic anomalies. Working in a medical library, I have developed the habit of collecting references in which the author's name fits like a surgical glove onto the title of his work.
Tool-Naming By Iron Workers, Alan Buczynski
Tool-Naming By Iron Workers, Alan Buczynski
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First unionized in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the trade of iron worker developed at a time when the industrial revolution allowed, for the first time in history, the erection of steel structures on a widespread scale. The technology of steel construction was new; the men hired to do the actual work, the construction gangs, were for the large part uneducated immigrants willing to work a dangerous job for low pay. The combination of a new technology with a class of worker unfamiliar with architectural and engineering terminology precipitated a colorful jargon which exists, in one form or …
The Growth Of A Word Network, A. Ross Eckler
The Growth Of A Word Network, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The May 1973 issue of Word Ways introduced the concept of a word network, a connected diagram of words of a single length, in which any two words differing in only one letter in the same position (as BRA and ERA, or TON and TEN) are joined by a line. Networks with more than 50 or 100 words are generally too complicated to diagram on a single sheet of paper, and it is difficult to assess their properties.
'Or' Son Visits The Escorial, Harry B. Partridge
'Or' Son Visits The Escorial, Harry B. Partridge
Word Ways
I wended my way down the walk to The Wombat's winter wickiup overlooking the Wrapahammock River. It had stormed the night before and the landscape was covered with what Iranians (the whilom Persians) call barf, but when we English-speakers more sensibly refer to as snow. The Wombat's chatelaine, Pocahontas-like in a feather chaplet, purringly raised the weighty woolen blanket serving as a door to admit me. Gazing on her feline svelteness and chrysoberyl eyes I reflected that my friend must be a secret Encratite or Hieracite not have married this direction descendant of the Marquis de Carabas' right bower.
Qwaints, Peter Newby
Qwaints, Peter Newby
Word Ways
Anthony Sebastian and Renee Merriam's description of an aberrant form of self-referential words in the August Word Ways as "a unique variety of world-like letter sequences" lacks punch. These verbal delights, originated by Darryl Francis, require an apt single-word name if they are to achieve the popularity they deserve.
Beyond Long Nontrivial Transposals, Kyle Corbin
Beyond Long Nontrivial Transposals, Kyle Corbin
Word Ways
In my article "Transposals of 15 or More Letters" in the February 1989 issue of Word Ways, I presented a list of 560 trivial and 44 nontrivial transposals. In this follow-up article, I discuss the nontrivial transposals in more detail. I also present the longest nontrivial subtransposals, transadditions, and transdeletions, all of which I discovered while compiling the list of transposals in 1987 and 1988.
The Meaning Or Purpose Of Life, John Henrick
The Meaning Or Purpose Of Life, John Henrick
Word Ways
If Word Ways required abstracts for its articles, this would be an awkward moment. Originally, I intended to write an ordinary book review about an anything-but-ordinary book. Things soon got out of hand, however, resulting in a hybrid article. Flip-and-skim readers may by now have typed it as an instance of the premise-bit sequence, long a standby of Johnny Carson and Ed McMahonon the Tonight Show. Ed: "In that one book is "everything" you could hope to know about [book topic]." Johnny: "You are wrong, [topic-related adjective]-breath. Our staff has done some research and come up with a list of …
Computer Anagrams: Not Much Progress, Mike Morton
Computer Anagrams: Not Much Progress, Mike Morton
Word Ways
In 1982, I wrote a computer program (later known as Ars Magna TM) which used a dictionary to produce all possible anagrams for a phrase entered by the user. At about the same time, Jim Woods of the NASA/Ames Research Center in California wrote a similar program. Perhaps there are more, though I haven't heard of them.
Folk Etymology, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Folk Etymology, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
In my forthcoming book on onomastics, "What's in a Name?" from Genealogical Publishers of Baltimore. I discuss the folk etymologies of United States placenames -- among all other aspects of names -- such as "ore or no go" for Oronogo and "all Benny" for Albany. Here are some words originating in the people's distortion of the form or meaning, or based on mistakes of analogy. How many can you recognize?
Beyond Quinquennially, Joel Funk
Beyond Quinquennially, Joel Funk
Word Ways
The July 1988 issue of Games magazine contains a contest entitled "Hit The Jackpot" which ought to appeal to logologists. The contest is based on the lettered dartboard shown to the left. The challenge at the board, collecting letters (or a bull's eye) with each dart. Then add any number of vowels (including Y) to the letters collected and rearrange all of the letters to form a word. The only consonants that may appear in the word are the ones collected by the four darts.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 22 Number 2
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 22 Number 2
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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 22 Number 1
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 22 Number 1
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Front Cover and Publication Information, Volume 22 Number 1