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My First Word-List, John L. Hervey
My First Word-List, John L. Hervey
Word Ways
This is an abridged version of an article printed in the March 15, 1907 issue of the Ardmore Puzzler. Using the pen name "Majolica", the author was a long-time member of the National Puzzlers' League, specializing in the construction of large word squares. The incident described here occurred in the early 1880s, but a similar story could be related today by frustrated competitors in word competitions that attract many entrants.
Who Says A Must Say B, George J. Levenbach
Who Says A Must Say B, George J. Levenbach
Word Ways
The following appears in Section 90d of Battus's Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde, and was translated by George Levenbach.
Name Play, A. Ross Eckler
Name Play, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
At one time or another, everybody is asked to sign an autograph book, a school yearbook, a wedding book, or a retirement book with some conventional pearl of wisdom about the specific rite of passage. It is the purpose of this article to suggest that a logologist can can create a far more original message by exploiting the wordplay potential of the recipient's name. To illustrate, I draw from my own experience over the past twenty years. I hasten to add that the examples below were not thought up on the spur of the moment, but during odd moments over …
The Fall Of The Dictionary Of Webster, Louis Phillips
The Fall Of The Dictionary Of Webster, Louis Phillips
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During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when verbs hung oppressively low in their sentences, I had been passing through a singualarly dreary tract, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening grew on, within the view of the melancholy dictionary of Noah Webster.
Long Isograms (Part 2), Dmitri A. Borgmann
Long Isograms (Part 2), Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
As defined in the first part of this article, pair isograms are words containing exactly two of each letter. Those 7 pair isograms in the following lists which exhibit an accidental first-half/last-half symmetry or balance are asterisked for the reader's convenience.
Shakespeare, The Car Salesman, Chuck Davis
Shakespeare, The Car Salesman, Chuck Davis
Word Ways
Sratford and Avon, the advertising company, are pleased to announce that they have engaged the services of Will Shakespeare, the well-known writer, in their advertising campaign for the newest Detroit automobile, the Starling.
I Had A Solander On Canberra Day, Don Laycock
I Had A Solander On Canberra Day, Don Laycock
Word Ways
To non-Cockneys, one of the most baffling features about rhyming sland contnues to be the use of abbreviated, non-rhyming words.
That's In A Name, John Henrick
That's In A Name, John Henrick
Word Ways
Traditionally a favorite linguistic recreation, anagramming becomes especially diverting when applied to personal names. The typical result is a phrase which in some respect describes the person associated with the name. In Howard Bergerson's familiar work Palindromes and Anagrams, there are eight anagrams on the name William Ewart Gladstone, each giving someone's perception of that man.
Rhyme-Forced Proverbs, Eugene Ulrich
Rhyme-Forced Proverbs, Eugene Ulrich
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A few years ago, when my niece was in grade school, she recited for me some of the proverbs her teacher has been telling them. "But," she added, "I don't like all of them, because their words don't fit together." Not too sure what she meant, I asked her to tell me some that she did like. "Well," she volunteered, "'Birds of a feather flock together' and 'There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip' and 'Haste makes waste.' But one I don't like is 'All work and no play make Jack a dull boy.' And 'A bird in the …
Welsh English, Jay Ames
Welsh English, Jay Ames
Word Ways
A large number of Welsh words look like unrelated English words. The following collection is restricted to English words appearing in the Merriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary, or simple derivatives thereof (plurals, past participles); many more are obviously possible if larger dictionaries are allowed.
Artificial Adreverbums, William Sunners
Artificial Adreverbums, William Sunners
Word Ways
Imaginative palindromes have been featured in two recent Word Ways articles: "Soap Dealers and Beer Barons" by Eugene Ulrish in November 1982, and the "The Majestic Palindrome" by Dmitri Borgmann in February 1985. Inspired by their monumental achievements, I have created a series of questionable forward-and-backward scrivenings of my own.
Kickshaws, Howard W. Bergerson
Are Acrostic Messages Real?, A, Ross Eckler
Are Acrostic Messages Real?, A, Ross Eckler
Word Ways
One of the commonest ways to "prove" that an author is engaging in wordplay is to search for odd patterns of letters in his writings.
Writers' Link-O-Grams, Paul Hellweg
Writers' Link-O-Grams, Paul Hellweg
Word Ways
In the February 1980 issue of Word Ways, Boris Randolph presented an article entitled "Biographical Link-O-Grams", in which common words were found that linked the first and last names of famous persons. Since writers are associated with words, it seems appropriate to consider Link-O-Grams based solely on the names of famous authors.
Onomastics-Cha-Cha-Cha, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Onomastics-Cha-Cha-Cha, Leonard R. N. Ashley
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Did you ever swim or stroll or frug or jerk or make like a fish or a mashed potato? Do you know that people used to turkey trot and black bottom and even waltz? The onomastics of dance hold a few linguistic surprises, so here is a two-step quiz (1:questions, 2:answers) on the names of popular dances of different times and places.
Bowdlerized Alphabet Soup, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Bowdlerized Alphabet Soup, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
The socially most significant article in the May 1985 Word Ways is one by Dan Laycock, discussing the obscene properties of alphabet soup. Since this food is frequently consumed by young children, it is of the utmost importance to avoid corrupting their impressionable minds by the accidental formation of off-color words. As a public service to soup purveyors, I offer the following nine solutions to this vexing problem:
Renaming The Months, A, Ross Eckler
Renaming The Months, A, Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Most people are familiar with the dictum that one should only eat oysters in months containing the letter R, even though refrigeration has made this caution unnecessary. The letter R is contained in eight consecutive months, September through April, but absent from the remainder, May through August.
Jack And The Twoderful Beans, Richard Lederer
Jack And The Twoderful Beans, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
Many years ago, the comedian and pianist Victor Borge invented the idea of inflationary language. Since prices keep going up, Borge reasoned, why shouldn't language go up, too? In the English langage there are words that contain the sounds of numbers, like wonder, before and decorate. If we inflate each sound by one, we come up with twoder, befive, and decornine. Here is an original passage that will allow you to read and hear inflationary language in all its inflated grandeur. Try your eye and ear at translating this text back into regular English.
Last Man Circuit: Circumstantial, Walter Shedlofsky
Last Man Circuit: Circumstantial, Walter Shedlofsky
Word Ways
In case of my death, please deliver to Police. Leonard Fromken
More Sound-Spelling Correspondences, Mark Isaak
More Sound-Spelling Correspondences, Mark Isaak
Word Ways
This article is a sequel to "Sound-Spelling Correspondences" in the May 1985 Word Ways, providing additional spellings for the indicated pronunciations. All have been taken from Webster's Third Edition.
One More Charade Crossword, Ernst Theimer
One More Charade Crossword, Ernst Theimer
Word Ways
Of all crossword puzzles, I find the charade crossword the most enjoyable. in this type of crossword, the clues do not directly define the word to be found. The word is buried as a charade in a sentence.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 18 Number 2
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 18 Number 2
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information, including a table of contents, for this issue.
Wordplay In Ancient Greece, Dana Richards
Wordplay In Ancient Greece, Dana Richards
Word Ways
The Greek Anthology is a collection of Greek poetry compiled by Constantine Cephalas during the 10th century, known today from the only extant copy in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. David Singmaster recently discovered that this work contains hundreds of mathematical puzzles. his 1984 article on this topic in the Mathematical Spectrum gives an excellent overview of these; however, they are rarely challenging and often repetitive.
Clothes Encounters, A. Ross Eckler
Clothes Encounters, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Names of businesses, especially small Mom-and-Pop ones, are a fertile source of wordplay. This is especially evident in beauty parlor and barbershop nomenclature, extensively documented in "Hair-It-Is" in the May 1979 Word Ways. This article is a sequel, concentrating on women's and men's clothing stores, including such specialties as maternity and bridal shops, but excluding shoes (more often dominated by large chains). The names in both articles are an impressive testimony to the inventiveness of the human mind.
Plaudere, Du Alp!, Herbert Pfeiffer
Plaudere, Du Alp!, Herbert Pfeiffer
Word Ways
Herbert Pfeiffer is the only currently-active palindromist in West Germany. The following, first published in Neue Texte (an Austrian journal for poetry) in 1983, is believed to be the longest German palindrome ever written. Readers familiar with long English-language palindromes know that they make local sense but shift subject in erratic and unpredictable ways; so it is with "Talk, Nightmare!". The literal translation utterly destroys the spirit of the German original, becoming mere gibberish. I have attempted a free translation of the beginning and end which, I think, conveys the author's desolate message if not his exact words.
Shakespearean Word (514) Ways (82), Edward R. Wolpow
Shakespearean Word (514) Ways (82), Edward R. Wolpow
Word Ways
In 1969, The Bard met The Computer, resulting in The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare by marvin Spevack, a 1600-page book with very large pages and very small type, cataloguing the 884,647 words of Will's written corpus, from A to ZWAGGER'D. Excepting the 43 most frequently used words (THE, AND, I, etc.), every single use of every single word is listed, with the line or context in which it appears. The number of times each word is used is also tabulated. I do not doubt this revolutionized the study of Shakespeare, but I am not aware of a logological appreciation.
Kickshaws, Eric Albert