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The Majestic Palindrome, Dmitri A. Borgmann
The Majestic Palindrome, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
Towering above all other features of the logological landscape are palindromes. Enveloped in a majestic, icy, unapproachable grandeur all their own, their perfect symmetry or balance has symbolized the eternal in a changing world - for more than 2000 years. Palindromes therefore constitute the logological equivalent of an archetypal Platonic form - a form which all else reflects imperfectly, and to which it aspires, but which nothing else can ever attain.
Occult Occupations, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Occult Occupations, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
Most people watch movies. I watch the credits listed at the end of movies. For a logologist, those credits are often more interesting than motion-picture plots. The time has come for me to share some of my discoveries with you.
Front Cover And Publication Information -- Volume 17, Number 4
Front Cover And Publication Information -- Volume 17, Number 4
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue, including a table of contents.
Infinite-Tile Scrabble, Alan Frank
Infinite-Tile Scrabble, Alan Frank
Word Ways
Some time ago, I began to wonder how high a Scrabble game score I could get from an infinite pool of tiles. My first inclination was to play as many bingos (seven-tile plays having a bonus value) as possible, but Steve Root suggested the pattern of ZAXes in the game below, which improved the score considerably. In fact, Player 1 scores 1759 points and Player 2, 5337, for a grand total of 7096. Webster's Second is the dictionary of record.
In Search Of Perfection, Rod P. Selden
In Search Of Perfection, Rod P. Selden
Word Ways
From time to time, a puzzle contest comes along which is logologically interesting or significant. Such a contest was the recent Word Marathon sponsored by Games magazine. The deadline for receipt of all contest entries by the sponsor was September 4, 1984. The contest results will probably be announced in the December 1984 or the January 1985 issue of the magazine.
Dromes, Phones And Graphs, Harry B. Partridge
Dromes, Phones And Graphs, Harry B. Partridge
Word Ways
Early in September in this year of quadrennial madness, I had written to Dr. H.K. Wombat at his retreat in the Alpujarras in Spain for his prediction of the outcome of the Reagan-Mondale contest. Weeks elapsed without an answer, and I supposed that the worthy marsupial had either gone walkabout or was again engaged in the matters of international intrigue which had taken him to Spain in the first place.
Shortenings, Blends And Acronyms, Robert Devereux
Shortenings, Blends And Acronyms, Robert Devereux
Word Ways
The English lexicon has attained its present size, at least in part, by the creation of new words based on existing ones. In large measure this has involved the addition of prefixes and suffixes to existing words to create new ones having new meanings or nuances, but subtractive ways of using existing words to create new ones have also been used. Three closely-related types of such words - shortenings, blends and acronyms - are discussed below; in all three, a new word is created by taking letters in order from the original word or words.
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.
Q Palindromes, Jeff Grant
Q Palindromes, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
The letter Q has always intrigued people. Words like 'bouquet', 'acquiesce' and 'quinquennial' seem to have an almost mystical quality. Formists struggle to include Q in pyramids and squares while pangrammatists always find it the most difficult letter to incorporate into their compositions. Of course the main problem is that the letter Q is almost invariably followed by a U (for exceptions, see the editor's article in the May 1976 Word Ways). This constraint has severely limited the scope of Q in most fields of wordplay, although there are some ingenious examples of its use, such as the amazing …
Life-Cycle Recycle, Robert Cass Keller
Life-Cycle Recycle, Robert Cass Keller
Word Ways
John Henrick's "Limits of the Human Life Cycle" in the August issue of Word Ways inspired several readers to send in additions, most notably Dmitri Borgmann who supplied over 225 examples. A collection of the best is presented below, arranged according to the type of wordplay used.
Flora Americana, Edward R. Wolpow
Flora Americana, Edward R. Wolpow
Word Ways
The usual compilation of official state flowers is based upon people's likes and dislikes regarding the plants themselves. We should attempt instead logologist's list - in particular, try to provide an example for the species name of the Latin binomial, for each state. Most names in the list below are taken from H.W. Rickett's Wild Flowers of the United States.
The Ultimate Homonym Group, Dmitri A. Borgmann
The Ultimate Homonym Group, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
Two or more words spelled differently but pronounced the same are called homonyms by logologists. Today's linguistics appears to have no name for such words - homonyms, homophones, and homographs may or even must all be spelled and sounded alike.
The Apple-Sauce Chronicles, Louis Phillips
The Apple-Sauce Chronicles, Louis Phillips
Word Ways
In his excellent book on formula jokes, Jokes, Paul Dickson comments that What's the Difference? jokes, a blend of conundrum and pun, can be found in very old joke books. Some of the examples below are homonymic in nature; others reverse the first and last parts of the name; yet others are spoonergrams.
A New Type Of Reference Work, A. Ross Eckler
A New Type Of Reference Work, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Henry Burger's The Wordtree, a 28-year labor of love privately published in August 1984 at 7306 Brittany, Merriam KS 66203 and available from him for $149, is a reference book based on a novel idea: that one can express any transitive verb as the sum of exactly two other transitive verbs, as RAP = HIT + INTERRUPT, or VIBRATE = HANG + WAG. The core of his book consists of a 130-page Hierarchy, in which 24,600 transitives are listed and related to each other according to equations of this nature.
All Letter-Orders In A Word, A. Ross Eckler
All Letter-Orders In A Word, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
In the word reiterate, the letters R, E and T appear in all possible orders: REiTerate, ReiTErate, rEiTeRate, rEiteRaTe, reiTERate, and reiTeRatE. This property is not particularly unusual, being shared by thousands of Websterian words. The shortest letter sequences possessing this property are seven letters long.
Arrow Of Revelation, Walter Shedlofsky
Arrow Of Revelation, Walter Shedlofsky
Word Ways
Interview, Wednesday 11 July, 1000 hours, office of Police Lieutenant Arthur Jamison.
Kickshaws, Charles W. Bostick
Horsing Around, Leonard R.N. Ashley
Horsing Around, Leonard R.N. Ashley
Word Ways
Horses were eaten in the Old Stone Age, broken and ridden or used for farm animals in later periods, mounted by knights and hitched to coaches and buggies. Indeed, we still measure power in horsepower. See if you can provide the words defined below, words which give some hint of the immense and long-lasting influence of our equine friends on human vocabulary. If you get all these right, try to make a list of 24 proverbs involving horses, starting with "A horse of a different color," "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride," "A man on a white horse," and …
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
Instructions To Authors
Word Ways
Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to the publication.
Double Entendre Headlines, Eugene Ulrich
Double Entendre Headlines, Eugene Ulrich
Word Ways
While I was calmly reading the newspaper the other day, this headline near the bottom of the page caught my eye: JOHNNY, JUNE CASH ARE HIT IN HUNGARY. Had they been pelted with rotten tomatoes by a restive audience, or with bricks by protestors in the streets? (A modern civilized population has various ways of expressing its feelings.) Or had they been bashed by a car on the highway, or beaned by a meteorite? When I read the article, it was a surprise (and no small relief) to learn that their concerts in Hungary had been a big success.
A Supplementary Topical Index
Word Ways
The following index has been designed to help the reader locate specific types of wordplay published in 26 issues of Word Ways from February 1978 through May 1984; it updates a similar index for 40 issues of Word Ways from February 1968 through November 1977 appearing in the February 1978 issue. Both indices use the same format: a logological core consisting of (1) letter-patterns in words, (2) operations upon letters in words, and (3) relationships between letters and sounds, and a periphery (the intersection of logology with other branches of wordplay) consisting of (1) literary wordplay and games, (2) academic …
Front Cover And Publication Information
Front Cover And Publication Information
Word Ways
Publication information including table of contents.
The Maori Rolls, Jeff Grant
The Maori Rolls, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
In New Zealand a general election is held every three years, and it is compulsory for all qualified persons to be registered on an electoral roll. The country is divided up into 75 electorates, each containing about 20,000 eligible voters. There are at present over two million people recorded on the rolls, which are being continually updated to show new electors, changes of address, changes of name by marriage, and so on. The electoral rolls are published in soft-cover book form and can be inspected at most libraries and Post Offices throughout New Zealand. There is a National Microfiche Index …
Novelty Forms: A Satire, Newton B. Lovejoy
Novelty Forms: A Satire, Newton B. Lovejoy
Word Ways
Late in the last century, forms (solid crossword arrays with various geometrical outlines) were frequently found in puzzle columns in magazines and newspapers. Constructors soon tired of standard outlines such as squares, diamonds and pyramids, and developed a variety of more exotic ones: stars, crosses, pentagons, enneagons, hurglasses and the like. Two hundred and nine different shapes (including minor variants) can, in fact, be found in the 1906 Key to Puzzledom, a guide to the best in word puzzle literature up to that time. Alas, every excess creates its own reaction; the following satire is an abridgement of an …
Novelty Forms: Two Examples, Walter Shedlofsky
Novelty Forms: Two Examples, Walter Shedlofsky
Word Ways
In the last fifty years, the construction of novelty forms (solid crossword arrays with unusual outlines) has almost died out. Three examples have appeared in previous issues of Word Ways: Palmer Peterson's Hollow Diamond (May 1971) and Armless Man (Feb 1980), and Walter Shedlofsky's Windmill (Aug 1973). (The latter occasionally appears in the Enigma, the monthly publication of the National Puzzler's League.) The two Linking Word Squares forms depicted below are believed to be new. Three is nothing exactly like them in puzzle literature; the closest analogues are the Cushion Square and the Hollow Diamond. Note that all …
Olympic Roots And Branches, A. Ross Eckler
Olympic Roots And Branches, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
In the February 1984 Word Ways, Darryl Francis presented a quiz based on words whose letters can be rearranged to form OLYMPIC and one other word. Believing that the Olympics deserve further logological celebration, I present in this article an application of "Word Roots and Branches", described in the August 1979 issue Word Ways. Briefly, a word root consists of a diagram showing how a word can be transdeleted to shorter words in single steps (in a single step transdeletion, one letter is removed from a word and the remainder rearranged to form a new word). For many …
The Middle Of An Alphabetic List, Alan Frank
The Middle Of An Alphabetic List, Alan Frank
Word Ways
What's the middle of the alphabet? It's HA to a cryptic crossword aficionado, and M or N by strict counting, but what if you look in the middle of a reference book? The answer depends a lot on which book you choose. Here are fifty examples.
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 up to a month prior to publication of an issue will appear in it.
Curiously Concealed Cities, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Curiously Concealed Cities, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
Interested examination discloses that many well-known English words and phrases contain the names of equally well-known cities, either American or foreign. Embedded in the word DRAINAGE, for example, is READING (Pennsylvania), its letters rearranged and an A added. In the same way, the phrase AN OBLONG disguises BOLOGNA (Italy), the single letter added here being an N.