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Slurring Your Words, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Slurring Your Words, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
The English speak of French leave and the French disease, the French of the English vice, the Americans of a Mexican breakfast (a cigarette and a cup of coffee). See if you can give the ethnic slights or slurs connected with the following definitions.
Some Fossil Words, Maxey Brooke
Some Fossil Words, Maxey Brooke
Word Ways
Whenever two people come into contact, there is a cultural exchange. Part of that exchange is words. English-speaking people, being among the most adventurous, have come into contact with more languages than most. I have discovered borrowings from tow hundred different languages and dialects.
The Pangrammatic Highway, Udo Pernisz
The Pangrammatic Highway, Udo Pernisz
Word Ways
Traveling by car, usually passive and often boring, can now be turned into a meaningful recreation. The activity described here started out with what the children called Bingo: looking for signs along the highway with the letters B-I-N-G-O on them, one letter per sign, and in the order prescribed by the word. Each player silently checks the signs visible from the car until the one who has first seen all five letters calls out "Bingo." The signs that can be used for this game must be visible from the road, more or less facing oncoming traffic. This includes traffic signs …
Unabbreviation, Stuart T. Baird
Unabbreviation, Stuart T. Baird
Word Ways
Readers of this journal are probably formidable players of most of the commercially-available word games, and always on the look-out for something new. If so, they might be interested in a game, called Unabbreviation for lack of anything catchier, which a few of us have been playing on occasion for a few years. The game is for two or more players, and is suitable for home or travel.
Another Robot Quiz
Word Ways
The final batch of articles by Dmitri A. Borgmann published in the February 1988 issue of Word Ways contains "Robots on the Rampage," an example of Borgmann's wide-ranging logological interests. This article gave rise to remarks by Jed Martinez that show extensive acquaintance with robots in movies and television and state his interest in another robot quiz.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 21, Number 3
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 21, Number 3
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Scrambled Alphabets In Word-Lists, A. Ross Eckler
Scrambled Alphabets In Word-Lists, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Arrange the letters of the alphabet in a specified order, and imbed these in a list of words, the object being to use as few letters as possible in the word-list. For example, if the letters are arranged in alphabetic order, and one is restricted to boldface entries in the Marriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary, with no single letter words or abbreviations allowed (such as DDT or TV), then the minimum-letter word-list appears to be:
On Reflexivity In Words, Anthony Sebastian
On Reflexivity In Words, Anthony Sebastian
Word Ways
In a wonderful series of now anthologized articles originally appearing in Scientific American, Douglas Hofstadter discussed the many varieties of self-referential sentences (e.g., "This sentence no verb"). Word--a sentence's elements--can also be self-referential. Hofstadter did not discuss words as self-referential entities, however, though he implied their existence in noting the ubiquity of the phenomenon of self-reference: "It happens every time anyone say 'I' or 'me' or 'word' or 'speak' or 'mouth'".
Unsherlocking Unsherlock, Harry B. Partridge
Unsherlocking Unsherlock, Harry B. Partridge
Word Ways
We were seated side by side on a bisellium, Dr. Wombat and I, before a tea wagon bearing an elegant silver tea service and such necessaries of life as fresh apricots, sour cream, baklava, Sachertorten, chocolate truffles, and any number of soft and fragrant cheese. I had just crossed my legs and The Wombat had just leant over to pick up a necessity.
Searching For A Double 10-By-10, Frank Rubin
Searching For A Double 10-By-10, Frank Rubin
Word Ways
Avid readers of Word Ways may remember that I attempted a computer search for 10-by-10 word squares a number of years ago. I had a vocabulary of 55,000 ten-letter word and phrases stored in the computer, about half dictionary words and the rest names and phrases I had devised from brainstorming and free association. For example, I'd pick a word like carpet and think of all the things that go with it like -bags, bugs, tack, roll, shop, - less, - like, etc. My best effort, a square containing eight words from Webster's Second, appearing in the February 1977 …
Comments On Some Common Words, Robert J. Wilson
Comments On Some Common Words, Robert J. Wilson
Word Ways
Quick now, what's the most common non-Germanic word in the English language? The most common non-Germanic noun? Verb? Preposition? The most common word from Greek? From Celtic? From Indic? From a non-Indo-European language? While you were thinking I decided to examine the "Word Frequency Book" by John B. Caroll and other to discover the answers to some of these questions. Keep in mind that Carroll's book is based on writing, not speech, in American English. Since Carroll does not distinguish among homographs, I also consulted W. Nelson Francis's and Henry Kucera's "Frequency Analysis of English Usage" to ascertain the commonest …
Two More Electronic Spellers, Bruce Pyne
Two More Electronic Spellers, Bruce Pyne
Word Ways
It was with a great deal of interest that I read the article in the May 1988 issue of Word Ways entitled "The Electronic Speller" by Faith Eckler. Soon after that I noticed the appearance of a device known as the Spelling Ace on top of a showcase in the Sight and Sound (Electronics) department at the store at which I am employed. After toying with it a number of time, my first notion was that "The Electronic Speller" described this gadget. Alas, it didn't, but I enjoyed her article anyway.
Dynamic Trios, Richard Lederer
Dynamic Trios, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. And, inevitably, death and taxes, body and soul, and the birds and bees come in pairs, as do bread and butter, kit and caboodle, and rest and relaxation.
A Dutch Bigram Network, George J. Levenbach
A Dutch Bigram Network, George J. Levenbach
Word Ways
Onze Taal (Our Lanuage) is the monthloy publication of Onze Taal, a Dutch association dedicated to the correct use of the language. In the article "Het netwerk van Nerderlandse bigramman" (The network of Dutch bigrams) in the July/August 1985 issue. W. Dierick constructs a 61-word network of Dutch two-letter words. His inspiration for this bit of wordplay was the corresponding 38-word network of English two-letter words given to A. Ross Eckler's "Word Recreations" (Dover, 1979). However, he takes the author to task for including initalisms such as TV and TB.
The Poet's Corner
Word Ways
In this column, run whenever a sufficient number of poetic effusions have been collected by the editor, Word Ways readers comment on a variety of logological and grammatical topics.
Nonverbal Vocalization, Maxey Brooke
Nonverbal Vocalization, Maxey Brooke
Word Ways
Professor Henry Higgins was said to have devised a shorthand whereby he could rapidly and accurately record dialect nuances.
New Zealand Scrabblers' Anagrams, Jeff Grant
New Zealand Scrabblers' Anagrams, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
We have a close-knit, but highly competitive band of Scrabble enthusiasts here in New Zealand. There are upwards of a dozen tournaments held annually, ranging from six-game one-dayers to the National Masters event, where each competitor plays 23 games over a three-day period.
The Search For Gadsby, A. Ross Eckler
The Search For Gadsby, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The novel "Gadsby," written without the letter E by Ernest Vincent Wright in 1936-37, is one of those books that many people have heard about but few have seen. It has been alluded to in books on wordplay (for example, in the appendix to the Dover Publication 1961 paperback reprint of Bombaugh's "Oddities and Curiosities), in magazines (one page in the September 1972 Sc ientific American), and even in books on other subjects (Ronald Clark's "The Man Who Broke Purple," 1977). The book is extremely rare; according to "The Book of Lists 3" by Amy Wallace, David Wallechinsky, and Irving …
There's A Word For It, Leonard R. N. Ashley
There's A Word For It, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
You may remember that people used to worry about what the word was for the fluff that one finds in the corners of one's pockets. Sometimes people invent words for things that have long gone un-named: Gelett Burgess though up blurb for the self-promoting material on a book jacket; someone came up with gridlock (and pedlock, but the latter did not catch on). And some people seem to know the name for everything; the little decorative thing that screws on at the top of a lamp to hold the shade on is a finial, and it screws onto the …
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 21, Number 2
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 21, Number 2
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Nomen Est Omen, Harry B. Partridge
Nomen Est Omen, Harry B. Partridge
Word Ways
The last time Dr. Wombat invited me over for strawberries and cream I finally got into a discussion about his title with him. I furry phascolome possesses several doctorates, which he declines to discuss in any detail, but he did enlighten me about his iatriatrical specialty, which he considered his most trivial, but at the same time most lucrative.
Two New Transdeletion Pyramids, A. Ross Eckler
Two New Transdeletion Pyramids, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The August 1979 Word Ways article "Word Roots and Branches" showed how the 17-letter Websterian word ANTICEREMONIALIST could be successively transdeleted down to a single letter: remove E and rearrange the remaining 16 letters to obtain NONMATERIALISTIC, remove N and rearrange the remaining 15 letters to obtain RECITALIONALISM, and so on. Unfortunately, it was necessary to include one non-Websterian word, RECLAMATIONIST (used in 1946 Saturday Evening Post article), in the sequence.
Exuberance, A Motivation For Language, Allen Walker Read
Exuberance, A Motivation For Language, Allen Walker Read
Word Ways
The following is part of the presidential address from Allen Walker Read, given before LACUS (Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States) at its annual meeting, August 7, 1987, at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is reprinted by permission from the proceedings, "The Fourteenth LACUS Forum," 1987.
Famous Last Anagrams, John Holgate
Famous Last Anagrams, John Holgate
Word Ways
Deathbed utterances of famous people are sometimes recorded for posterity and generally contain the last spark of wisdom before they go to greet the great Anagrammatist in the Sky. Who could forget Madame de Pompadour's bon mot to a priest at her bedside "Stay a little longer and we will go together" or Bredan Behan's remark to the obliging nun "Bless you, Sister. May you be the mother of a bishop"? In fact many of these gems are apocryphal or said while the notable enjoyed good health. His or her very last Rhodes' dictum "So much to do, so little …
Two Hundred Eight-Squares, Jeff Grant
Two Hundred Eight-Squares, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
In his article "Most Quality Word Squares" in the February 1988 issue of Word Ways, Dmitri Borgmann exhibited the four finest eight-by-eight word squares known to him. The first example is clearly the best of those shown, as the other all resort to two-word terms which rather detract from their standing.