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A New Approach To Transpositions, Dmitri A. Borgmann
A New Approach To Transpositions, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
Although many words and names are transportable, many more are not, learning a bitter taste in the loglogist's mouth. One way of overcoming the problem in relation to groups of words and names is to adopt the transaddition which includes one extra letter as an acceptable standard of achievement, which the further proviso that each transaddition need not adhere to that standard: all that is necessary is for all members of a group of transadditions to adhere to it is their average. This supplementary condition permits some members of the group to add zero letters, becoming genuine transposals, these being …
Unbalanced Word Division, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Unbalanced Word Division, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
In an article in the November 1974 Word Ways, Merlin X. Houdini explored and solved the problem of dividing an eight-letter word, ESTHONIA, into 35 different pairs of four-letter words, such as HENS and IOTA, using only Webster's Second Edition as a base of operations.
Quelque Chose, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Facing The End, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Facing The End, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
If someone were to ask you to name three American communities beginning with the letter Z, could you? Unless you happen to live in one, you might have difficulties, for there are only two cities in the nation with populations exceeding 10,000 and beginning with the letter Z: ZANESVILLE, Ohio and ZION, Illinois. Yet there are many hundreds of communities in the United States beginning with the last letter of the alphabet. While some names occur in a good many states - there are numerous Zions, for example - the actual number of "different" Z names is a figure approaching …
Mary's Little Anagram, A. Ross Eckler
Mary's Little Anagram, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
May and her little lamb were lipogrammed in August 1969, univocalized in August 1986, and subjected to a variety of other logological indignities in November 1988. Here are six more way in which their story can be tortured, taken from my Word Row article in the January 1977 issue of the British magazine Games & Puzzles. See if you can figure out each modus operandi before reading the explanation at the end of the article.
Mammal Magic, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Mammal Magic, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
A curious linguistic phenomenon that has received little attention in recent years is the fact that you can take an ordinary English word, add a letter of your choice to it, scramble all of the letters, and produce the name of some mammal. A few examples of this phenomenon.
The Abcs Of Logology, Dmitri A. Borgmann
The Abcs Of Logology, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
What are the ABCs of logology? Why, words and names beginning with the letters ABC. Since AB- is a common prefix in English, and a word such as ABCOULOMB is very easy to pronounce, there out to be numerous ABC words and names in English.
All Is Vanity, Faith W. Eckler
All Is Vanity, Faith W. Eckler
Word Ways
The article on vanity license plates in the November 1986 Word Ways probably generated more reader response than any other article Word Ways ever published. Many readers wrote to send us their favorite specimens. John Henrick of Seattle, Washington sent us a whole published book by John and Barbara Dixon entitled The Plate Book: "Puzzle Plates" The New American Hi-Way Graffiti (Voler Publishing Company, Seattle; 1982), containing approximately 52,000 examples. In preparing this sequel to the first article, I Leaderer of Scarsdale, New York and Vernon MacLaren of Augusta, Maine. The latter pointed out that the subject is properly registration …
Wordplay In The 19th Century, A. Ross Eckler
Wordplay In The 19th Century, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Modern recreational linguistics, as codified by Dmitri Borgmann in "Language on Vacation" (Scribner's, 1965), primarily views words as collections of letters to be manipulated in various ways, and secondarily as combinations of sounds and carriers of meaning. As in other branches of scholarly inquiry, this narrow focus has enabled today's logologists to see relationships more clearly, to ask new questions, and in general to elucidate the subject to an extent their predecessors could not even comprehend. Yet with such advances come myopia - one sees the individual trees, but no longer the forest. It is extremely instructive to look at …
Writing On The Wall, Walter Shedlofsky
Writing On The Wall, Walter Shedlofsky
Word Ways
Good afternoon, Lieutenant Jamison. I appreciate your taking off time to see me. I am Lyle Stanton, lawyer for the estate of Malcolm Travis who died three weeks ago.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 20 Number 4
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 20 Number 4
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Poetry And The Palindrome, Haim Kilov
Poetry And The Palindrome, Haim Kilov
Word Ways
Editor's Note: In the February 1984 Word Ways, Haim Kilov and his associate S. El'man translated an article by V. Khromov on Russian palindromes originally appearing in Nauka i Zhizn 9 (1970). This article alluded to an earlier one by Semyon Kirsanov (1906-1972), a well-known Soviet poet, in Nauka i Zhizn 7 (1966). The following is a translation of that article, with various amplifications in brackets. Note that certain Cyrillic letters transliterate into groups of English letters (ch, kh, sh, shch, ya, ye, yu, zh), marring the palindromic appearance. In addition there appear to be a few lines where Kirsanov …
Colloquy
Word Ways
Webster's Dictionary defines "colloquy" as "mutual discourse." Readers are encouraged to submit additions, corrections, and comments about earlier articles appearing in Word Ways. Comments received at least one month prior to publication of an issue will appear in that issue.
A Recreational Linguistics Library, David Morice
A Recreational Linguistics Library, David Morice
Word Ways
The following article is adapted from a paper presented to the class "Foundations and Collections Development" in the University of Iowa's School of Library and Information Science. The professor, Gerald Hodges, commented on it in part: "It appears to me that you have done the unthinkable - build an enjoyable and entertaining collection for an academic setting... I do feel that your selection process was systematic, and I think you are on solid ground in going with those titles which had multiple favorable reviews. Your annotations not only tell me sufficient information about each title but do indeed justify the …
Jade, Darryl Francis
Jade, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
I have two daughters, Jade Roxann, who was born in 1981, and Elli Caroline, born in 1984. Over fifteen years ago, I wrote an article for Word Ways entitled "Caroline" which appeared in the May 1971 issue. That particular article examined a variety of wordplay based on the letters in the name CAROLINE. While that article preceded the appearance of my second daughter by over thirteen years, there has until now been no article related to either forename of my first daughter. As I am beginning to find that each daughter wants what the other has, I felt it was …
Vowel Structure, Dana Richards
Vowel Structure, Dana Richards
Word Ways
The vowel structure of a word is defined as its sequence of vowels, such as OIOU in obvious and conscious, or AE in pattern and amend. The only previous Word Ways studies of vowel structure focused upon finding as many of the 120 permutations of AEIOU as possible (see "Unsociable Housemaid Discourages Facetious Behavior" in November 1968, an "An AEIOUS Examination" in May (1979). In contrast, this article tackles the problems of (1) finding examples of all 216 types of vowel structure for words having three vowels among AEIOUY, and (2) finding examples of all 625 types of vowel structure …
Grandma Clancy's Cootherman Box, Timothy G. Clancy
Grandma Clancy's Cootherman Box, Timothy G. Clancy
Word Ways
As a child I was often fascinated by a small wooden box in which my grandmother kept her costume jewelry. She referred to it as her Cootherman box. It was not until recently that I decided to investigate the possible origin and meaning behind the word cootherman in an effort to understand its significance in relation to that mysterious box of jewelry.
Kophobelemnonidae, Jeff Grant
Kophobelemnonidae, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
Although not always essential to Scrabblers, one of the main functions of a dictionary is to provide its user with a clear definition of the terms it contains. For example, if we look up MIDDLE-AGED in Chambers we find 'between youth and old age, variously reckoned to suit the reckoner'. Fair enough! The ultimate in concision was reached by Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, which defined in early printings the word RAFTMAN as 'a raftman'. No argument there.
Author! Author! Author!, Richard Lederer
Author! Author! Author!, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
Once upon a time we had presidents named John Quincy Adams, William Henry Harrison, William Howard Taft, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Also in the world of politics were the likes of William Lloyd Garrison, William Jennings Bryan, and Margaret Chase Smith.
N-Ciphered Texts, Donald E. Knuth
N-Ciphered Texts, Donald E. Knuth
Word Ways
Some years ago, while doing research on typography, I made a special font of type that obscured the letters in order to study the effect of spacing. Some of my students happened to look at one of my examples, and decided on their own initiative to look at one of my other examples, and decided on their own initiative to figure out the words that I thought had been obliterated. To my great surprise, they were not only able to reconstruct a highly complicated and abstruse text, but enjoyed every minute of the task! They were so hooked on the …
Reaganagram Reprise, John Henrick
Reaganagram Reprise, John Henrick
Word Ways
As the curtain rises on the denouement of the Reagan years, it seems appropriate to renew the search for apposite transposals of the President's name. In the May 1984 issue of Word Ways, the term Reaganagram was introduced by Mike Morton and A. Ross Eckler in reference to interesting permutations of the eighteen letter in RONALD WILSON REAGAN, or alphabetically arranged, AAADEGILLNNNOORRSW. To the hundreds of examples of computer-generated scramblings contained in their article, the human touch was added in the August 1984 issue through various contributions from readers.
Brit Wit: A Slang Quiz, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Brit Wit: A Slang Quiz, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
The wit and wisdom of the common people are preserved in slang words and phrases which can sometimes be a little baffling or require insider knowledge, as when a Cockney says, "I wouldn't like to be a pawnbroker's sign on a night like this." (A really cold night can "freeze the balls off a brass monkey," and a pawnbroker's sign has, of course, not two but three balls.) Less crude and less complicated, but as amusing perhaps, are the following words and expressions from British slang. How many can you decipher? The best of British luck to you!
Kickshaws, Edward R. Wolpow
I Hear America Talking: Now Slang, Leonard R. N. Ashley
I Hear America Talking: Now Slang, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
Now that it's baseball season, I think I'll bat out a slang quiz for you to bat around. I hope these vivid new American slang terms won't drive you batty. OK, you're at bat - if you bat one thousand, you are listening to America talking a very "now" language, and you get around among college students, druggies, truckers, cons, astronauts, and the like.
Ghostbusters, Alan Frank
Ghostbusters, Alan Frank
Word Ways
In "Our Move" in the November 1971 Word Ways, Darryl Francis demonstrated that the only safe opening move for the first player in the game of Ghost (players alternately add letters, and the one that first completes a word of four or more letters is the loser) is the letter L. He allowed only uncapitalized words from Webster's Third Edition to be used; specifically, he excluded all words labeled cap, usu cap, often cap, or sometimes cap. In the article, he invited Word Ways readers to determine the corresponding strategies for other dictionaries.
Mama, Me Shemighvinianebia, Harry B. Partridge
Mama, Me Shemighvinianebia, Harry B. Partridge
Word Ways
"Wombat, Wombat, Wombat!" muttered I, handing the list back to the amiable beast in question.