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Red, White And Blue, Leonard R. N. Ashley Aug 1979

Red, White And Blue, Leonard R. N. Ashley

Word Ways

Have you noticed how often red, white, and blue turn up in slang and common expressions? Communists are red (so we get red scare, etc.). We have red tape, roll out the red carpet, refer to some people as rednecks. We have the white line, and have old expressions like "that's white of you" and new ones like white-out. We get the blues, appoint blue ribbon panels, even even see blue movies. How many of the following can you define? Answers are in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue.

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Words, Dmitri A. Borgmann Aug 1979

Words, Dmitri A. Borgmann

Word Ways

A dictionary is a collection of words, each on accompanied by a preferred pronunciation, an etymology and one or more definitions with citations illustrating literary usage. It seems clear that the editors of the dictionary must have spent many hours crafting clear and succinct definitions, ones that will reveal the precise nuances of meaning. Furthermore, it goes without saying that they have lavished especial attention and care on the meaning of a word as important to the dictionary-user as WORD.

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Answers And Solutions Aug 1979

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.

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Word Ways Challenges (Part 3), Philip M. Cohen, A. Ross Eckler Aug 1979

Word Ways Challenges (Part 3), Philip M. Cohen, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

For an introduction to this series of articles classifying and summarizing unsolved logological problems in Word Ways, see the February 1979 Word Ways.

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Back Cover Aug 1979

Back Cover

Word Ways

Back cover of the issue, including instructions to authors wishing to contribute to the publication.

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Word-Rubric Rebi, Philip M. Cohen Aug 1979

Word-Rubric Rebi, Philip M. Cohen

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In the National Puzzlers' League rebus puzzle, a group of letters or other symbols, called a rubric, clues a word or phrase. For example, the rubric XCY clues chiromancy with the reading 'chi, Roman C, Y'. In a phonetic rebus, the sound of the reading is involved: for example, the rubric P clues rhopalic with the reading 'rho, pal, I see'. In an enigmatic rebus, something beyond what is visible in the rubric must be inferred, like the missing ST in the rubric AIN L, which clues stainless steel with the reading 'STAIN less S, tee; L'. In a reversed …

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Aisle, Altar, Hymn, Frederick Landers Aug 1979

Aisle, Altar, Hymn, Frederick Landers

Word Ways

I was sick and tired of going to church. The people there spoke nonsense. "God loves olive you," they said. And "Lettuce spray". I was especially annoyed by the priests who interpreted passages from the Bible and tried to make the congregation "buy bull".

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Kickshaws, Darryl Francis Aug 1979

Kickshaws, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

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More Word Cubes, Jeff Grant May 1979

More Word Cubes, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

In "Cubism Revisited" in the August 1978 Word Ways I presented a non-symmetrical word cube of the sixth order. This cube, although structurally perfect, contains a small number of non-words. I recently had another go at this problem -- here is the result.

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Five-Letter Word Patterns, Edward R. Wolpow May 1979

Five-Letter Word Patterns, Edward R. Wolpow

Word Ways

Excluding patterns with three or more consecutive identical letters, there are 41 different word patterns for five-letter words.

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Kickshaws, Will Shortz May 1979

Kickshaws, Will Shortz

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

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Convertible English, Richard Lederer May 1979

Convertible English, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

Because modern English has shed most of the flexional endings that distinguished grammatical functions and because English word order is more fixed than ever before, many of our words possess the lively ability to rail-jump from one part of speech to another without any basic change in form. This happy facility, variously called function shift or conversion, endows our language with vitality, power, and a prolific source of new words.

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Answers And Solutiions May 1979

Answers And Solutiions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.

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Crypto Crossword, Boris Randolph May 1979

Crypto Crossword, Boris Randolph

Word Ways

The introduction, the across definitions and the down definitions are each in a different simple substitution cipher. Solve the introduction first, and you will have a clue to another feature of this puzzle.

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Word Ways Challenges (Part 2), Philip M. Cohen, A. Ross Eckler May 1979

Word Ways Challenges (Part 2), Philip M. Cohen, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

For an introduction to this series of articles classifying and summarizing unsolved logological problems in Word Ways, see the February 1979 issue.

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Lucky Nines, Faith Eckler May 1979

Lucky Nines, Faith Eckler

Word Ways

Notice: This article is written under unusual linguistic (lipogram-like) constraints (revealed in final paragraph).
Challenge: Find its modus operandi.

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Unaccustomed As I, Unh ..., Maxey Brooke May 1979

Unaccustomed As I, Unh ..., Maxey Brooke

Word Ways

Ancient calendars were based on the lunar month and the solar year. Because the solar year is not an integral multiple of the lunar month, the months tended to drift through the seasons, and before anyone quite realized it February was the first month of the year instead of March. It was embarrassing to have a spring festival in the middle of a snowstorm, so one of the functions of the high priest was to occasionally insert or intercalate an extra month into a year to bring the seasons back into synchronization.

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Nicknames In These United States, Leonard R. N. Ashley May 1979

Nicknames In These United States, Leonard R. N. Ashley

Word Ways

I have lately been reading about American history, and have been impressed by the large number of colorful nicknames and sobriquets which dot its pages. You know about "The Father of His Country" (Washington), "The Great Emancipator" (Lincoln), maybe even "The Kitchen Cabinet" of Andrew Jackson and "The Brain Trust" of FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt). You may have heard of "The New Deal" or "The Era of Good Feeling". How many of the following can you recognize? Miss half, and you win the Leslie Lynch King, Jr. Prize (the original name of Gerald Rudolph Ford)!

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Word Strings, Tom Pulliam May 1979

Word Strings, Tom Pulliam

Word Ways

The word SARI can be converted into the word ARID by deleting the first letter and adding a letter at the end; the words RIDE, IDEA, and DEAD can be successively formed in the same manner. Historically, such a sequence of words has been known as a word stair, in recognition of its appearance if each word is offset underneath its predecessor, with identical letters in a column. However, a much more compact notation is achieved by a single row of letters, such as SARIDEAD, which can be called a word string.

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Logological Crosswords, Ralph G. Beaman May 1979

Logological Crosswords, Ralph G. Beaman

Word Ways

There are two six-letter words that should be as familiar to logologists as apple pie and hamburgers. I have disguised them as i ii iii iv v vi and I II III IV V VI. From the arrangements and definitions below, see how quickly you can decipher them.

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Back Cover May 1979

Back Cover

Word Ways

Back cover of this issue, including instructions for authors wishing to contribute.

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A 1962-Point One-Move Scrabble Score, Jeff Grant May 1979

A 1962-Point One-Move Scrabble Score, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

In the May 1974 issue of Word Ways, Darryl Francis and Ron Jerome presented a 1961-point single move in Scrabble, based on the word BENZOXYCAMPHORS. By modifying this solution, I have succeeded in adding one more point to it.

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Hair-It-Is, A. Ross Eckler May 1979

Hair-It-Is, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Shy Locks, said the sign over the store on South Washington Street in Alexandria, Virginia. That's a clever name for a beauty parlor, I thought, but I wonder how many people get the Shakespearean reference. Still, I mused, it probably doesn't matter -- what does count is that the proprietor has created an attention-getting name, one that just might bring in an extra customer or two. Thinking further about it, I was sure that I had seen other beauty parlors with names that played on words -- The Clip Joint and The Razor's Edge came immediately to mind.

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Down Memory Lane, John Mcclellan May 1979

Down Memory Lane, John Mcclellan

Word Ways

Mnemonics, as most people know, are artificial memory-aids and may be part of an elaborate system, or an individual creation unrelated to any larger system. The word is from the Greek name of the goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne. Mother of the nine Muses, she must have been a veritable elephant of a goddess, memory-wise, to have lent her name to this fertile branch of endeavour. Unfortunately, no examples of her prowess in the 'remembering' field are extant, and it is suggested that all records of them were lost in the great fire that destroyed the Alexandrian Library some years ago.

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Etymology Riddles, Barbara Hunt Lazerson May 1979

Etymology Riddles, Barbara Hunt Lazerson

Word Ways

With the aid of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, which contains 46 pages of Indo-Eurpoean roots, one can discover that words that appear to be completely unrelated are in reality cognates. This information can be used to develop riddles that contain two or more such words. The point of an etymology riddle is that the cognate words share a common semantic element that is not readily apparent because some of the semantic and/or phonological changes that have occurred over the centuries have masked the common origin of the cognates.

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Quakes, Darryl Francis May 1979

Quakes, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

"If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event." Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857)

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Colloquy May 1979

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 that issue.

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An Aeiou Examination, David Shulman May 1979

An Aeiou Examination, David Shulman

Word Ways

We have often seen comments on words that have all five vowels AEIOU, usually in alphabetic order. I decided to take a particular dictionary and list all the words I could find with AEIOU in any order, eliminating those words in which a vowel was repeated. The dictionary I selected was the Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary (1973 printing) which I use frequently in the game of Scrabble.

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A Conflict Of Cultures: Alsace-Lorraine, 1871-1918, Karen Lynn Eiler Apr 1979

A Conflict Of Cultures: Alsace-Lorraine, 1871-1918, Karen Lynn Eiler

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

A traveler viewing Alsace today for the first time would never suspect the difficult and stormy past which has plagued this beautiful little country. The fertile plains, the vineyards, and the Vosges mountains on the French side of the Rhine are mirrored on the German side of the valley, extending to the mountains of the Black Forest. The cultures of these two great civilizations, too, mingle here, enrich and reflect each other. Language is a perfect example of this junction of cultures. Most inhabitants are at least bilingual, speaking both the local dialect, which is of Germanic origin, and either …

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Front Cover And Publication Information Mar 1979

Front Cover And Publication Information

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

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