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Escaped From The Language-Lab, Rudy Kousbroeck
Escaped From The Language-Lab, Rudy Kousbroeck
Word Ways
There once was a poor woodchopper. This woodchopping, he said one day to his woman, there sits no dry bread in it [it does not pay]. I work myself an accident [extremely hard] the whole day, but you and our twelve children have not to eat.
Four From Four Isn't Zero, John Henrick
Four From Four Isn't Zero, John Henrick
Word Ways
The title applies to the following tetrad of poems, written entirely in four-letter words. In these pages in November 1986, I reported on the results of a prior experiment which I had conducted to test the literal sense of a Cole Porter lyric which claimed that contemporary authors now only use four-letter words in their writings. Prose presented definite difficulties, but verse appeared to be moderately tractable.
Transposing Rates, Jeff Grant
Transposing Rates, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
A set of three different letters can be transposed in six ways. There are a number of these groups where all possible combinations are legitimate terms; for example the letters AER yield the following six words, all of which are listed in Web 2.
Do Mamaroneckers Like To Neck?, Mary Stewart Craig
Do Mamaroneckers Like To Neck?, Mary Stewart Craig
Word Ways
People with uninhibited imaginations often wonder about things that wouldn't cross saner minds. Do lobsters hurt when you boil them? Why is a lieutenant general higher in rank than a major general when a major outranks a lieutenant? What do you call people who speak Flemish besides Belgians? Until I found out they're plain old Flemings (how mundane!), I had dreamed up names with much more oomph. Why, they could be Flems, Flams, or Flooms!
Cross Of Understanding, Walter Shedlofsky
Cross Of Understanding, Walter Shedlofsky
Word Ways
"Good afternoon. Father Patrick MacReady, I presume. I am Police Lieutenant Arthur Jamison."
Mnemonics For Overlapping Groups, A. Ross Eckler
Mnemonics For Overlapping Groups, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Most mnemonics are constructed to aid in recalling the members of a single group, such as ROY G BIV for the colors of the spectrum, or Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest for the Seattle east-west streets Jefferson, James, Cherry, Columbia, Marion, Madison, Spring, Seneca, University, Union, Pike and Pine.
Gap, David Morice
Gap, David Morice
Word Ways
The names for numbers are perhaps the oldest words in our vocabulary. They are so old that the reasons for their use have been lost. There is an attempt to relate three to beyond through the prefixes tri- and trans-. There is also an attempt to relate five to hand, more apparent in the Polynesian languages than in the Indo-European.
Word-Unit Palindromes, A. Ross Eckler
Word-Unit Palindromes, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
A word-unit palindrome is a sentence (or sequence of sentences) which, word for word, reads the same in forward and reverse.
Dial N For Negative, Don Sharp
Dial N For Negative, Don Sharp
Word Ways
The negative English morphene, un- and its equivalents, was not born naturally; it was invented, like all languages, out of the need to easily reverse word meanings from positive to negative. There is no question as to the early need for the negative, as shown by the Sanskrit an-. In dozens of words since, the un- has proved its utility many times over; for sure, the un- is in.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 20 Number 3
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 20 Number 3
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Two New Books On Scrabble, Alan Frank
Two New Books On Scrabble, Alan Frank
Word Ways
The John G. White Chess Library in Cleveland has about one hundred thousand volumes. Victor Mollo has had about two dozen books published on bridge. But the number of titles available on Scrabble [registered trademark] can be counted on the titles of one rack, and until a year ago, none of them was based on the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
Insertion-Deletion Networks, A. Ross Eckler
Insertion-Deletion Networks, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Word networks - collections of words of a common length that can be joined by single-letter substitutions, such as the sequence BANKER-BANTER-BATTER-BETTER-SETTER-SETTEE-SETTLE linking BANKER and SETTLE - were studied in some detail in the May and August 1973 issues of Word Ways. Non-repeating sequences from word networks, commonly called word ladders and doublets, have a long history; Lewis Carroll, among others, challenged readers to join two specified words by a ladder. However, word networks have one serious flaw: they do not allow one to incorporate words of different lengths. This can be rectified by the concept of an insertion-deletion …
Foxen In The Henhice, Richard Lederer
Foxen In The Henhice, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
Recently I undertook an extensive study of American dialects, and a friend told me of a farmer named Even Pluribus who spoke a most unusual kind of English. So I went to visit Farmer Pluribus, and there is a transcript of our interview.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 20 Number 2
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 20 Number 2
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
The Case Of The Enigmatic Rebus, Walter Shedlofsky
The Case Of The Enigmatic Rebus, Walter Shedlofsky
Word Ways
"Good afternoon. I am Police Lieutenant Jamison. I understand you three discovered the dead body of Ambrose Reckel this morning. Please tell me who you are and your relation to the deceased."
A Self-Enumerating Crossword, Lee Sallows
A Self-Enumerating Crossword, Lee Sallows
Word Ways
In the "self-intersecting reflexicon" below, one can indeed find thirteen e's, five f's, four h's, five i's, four n's, four o's, seven r's, thirteen s's, six t's, three u's, three v's, one x,. More remarkably, only twelve letters of the alphabet are used: one appearing on each of the twelve intersections created! The layout is far from unique, though experiment suggests a specimen using eleven or fewer letters is extremely unlikely.
A Comber Comes A Cropper, Harry B. Partridge
A Comber Comes A Cropper, Harry B. Partridge
Word Ways
It was along toward the autumn of the year that I found Dr. Wombat, the learned logothere, lying reading under the spreading cover of a beech, a picnic basket at his side. Surveying his classic pose I remarked that he should be reading Virgil's Eclogues.
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.
The Oed Supplement (Se-Z), Darryl Francis
The Oed Supplement (Se-Z), Darryl Francis
Word Ways
1972 saw the publication of the first volume of the revised Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, covering the letters A-G. The second volume, for the letters H-N, appeared in 1976, and the third volume, spanning O-Scz, appeared in 1983. Reviews of these three volumes were published in Word Ways in 1977 and May 1983.
The Poet's Corner
Word Ways
From time to time, Word Ways receives a variety of short poems related to recreational linguistics, some original, others previously published. As poetic output cannot be easily predicted, these will be presented on an irregular basis.
An Overlap Chain Of Town Names, Edward R. Wolpow
An Overlap Chain Of Town Names, Edward R. Wolpow
Word Ways
An overlap chain of words is a sequence in which the last letters of each word form the first letters of the next, as in SPACE, CEILING, INGOT or SEVEN, EVENT, ENTRANCE. A complete overlap chain is one in which each letter participates in exactly one over-lap - that is, there can be no letters in the middle of the word no overlapping with the preceding or following ones (for example, IL in CEILING), nor can any letter overlap with both the preceding and following words (for example, EN in EVENT). To avoid uninteresting chains, I require also that each …
Quasi Eleven-Squares, Jeff Grant
Quasi Eleven-Squares, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
The following 11-by-11 word square appears in Language on Vacation (Scribner's, 1965), and is described by the author, Dmitri Borgmann, as 'quasi square'. The seven central words are of impeccable quality, but the two sets of letter combinations at each end are complete gibberish.
Pangrams, Maxey Brooke
Pangrams, Maxey Brooke
Word Ways
The word pangram, though well-known to the logologist for many years, appears in few dictionaries. Such standard works as the Marriam-Webster Unabridged (both Second and Third Editions) and the Oxford English Dictionary omit it, and it is not mentioned in the Encyclopedia Britannica's long section on wordplay. The only dictionaries in which it appears at "6000 Words" (1976) and the third volume of the "Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary" (1982). In both, the word is defined as a sentence containing all 26 letters of the alphabet. It is understood, although not explicitly specified, that some of these letters may …
Haiku Maze, David Morice
Haiku Maze, David Morice
Word Ways
What it is The Haiku Maze is a permutational word device for creating 17-syllable poems by working the maze.
Five-Letter Internal Palidromes, Bruce Pyne
Five-Letter Internal Palidromes, Bruce Pyne
Word Ways
Most Word Ways readers are attuned to letter-patterns. One of the most commonly-encountered ones is the internal palindrome, as in REVERse or diVISIVe. For years I have been collecting words with internal palindromes of five or more letters. I sent the editor a type-collections of 336 five-letter examples, from mACACA to piZAZZ; he added over one hundred more from a perusal of Jack Levine's list of pattern words, and solicited the help of Dana Richards in searching the Air Force list of Webster's Second by command is presented on the following pages. In the interest of brevity only one example …
The Syndrome, A. Ross Eckler
The Syndrome, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Dr. Edward Wax carefully inserted the cassette in the player as he glanced at the other four sitting around the conference table. "I'm glad you could find the time to listen to my problem," he began. "I realize that the Psychiatric Institute is ordinarily concerned with research into phobias or psychological aberrations that have resisted treatment by the foremost psychiatrists, not the routine neuroses encountered by a GP like myself. Were it not for my neighbor, Mr. Pfund of your Institute, I suppose I should never have been given this hearing." He nodded toward the short cherubic man sitting across …
Basketball Names, Timothy J. Wheeler
Basketball Names, Timothy J. Wheeler
Word Ways
At first glance, the game of basketball does not seem a promising source of wordplay. Unfortunately for one in hoop-happy Hoosierdom, it isn't so not on second glance, either.
Political Polemics: What's In A Name?, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Political Polemics: What's In A Name?, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
The National Committee for Honest Political Naming (L.R.N. Ashley, President and Chief Executive Officer) is a one-member, one-issue organization dedicated to exposing what The New Republic called in its 1 Sep 1986 issue viewspeak, defined as "the increasingly popular trick of disguising your own self-interest in the rhetoric of public interest." The rule is the more partisan the Political Action Committee (PAC), the less partisan-sounding its name. The difference between the names of the lobbying groups and what they are up to suggested this little quiz. See if you can guess the concern of each group of lobbyists from …