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Alfalfa And All That, Leroy F. Meyers
Alfalfa And All That, Leroy F. Meyers
Word Ways
It all began with a party -- one that I did not attend. The next day, someone mentioned to me that word games had been played at the party, and that a word with the pattern 1231231 (where different letters are represented by different digits) had been sought. I replied (immediately, so I like to think) with alfalfa and entente, and later with the German words Kuckuck ('cuckoo') and endende ('ending', as a weak adjective).
From Ab--- To ---Yz, Ralph G. Beaman
From Ab--- To ---Yz, Ralph G. Beaman
Word Ways
In the May 1978 Kickshaws, I pointed out that five-letter words still have unexplored logological aspects. For example, I showed that all 130 possible combinations of each alphabetical letter in each position exist as words, nearly all common enough to be in the Pocket Webster.
Ernest's Revenge, Boris Randolph
Ernest's Revenge, Boris Randolph
Word Ways
A crossword puzzle with answers containing E as the only vowel.
Symmetric Crash Groups, A. Ross Eckler
Symmetric Crash Groups, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Two words of the same length are said to crash if they have matching letters in one or more positions, such as tIger and pIous, or roTuND and atTeND. A symmetric crash group is a set of words in which (1) each word crashes exactly n times with each other word, (2) every letter participates in a crash, and (3) each letter is used exactly m times in a given position.
An Eleven-Letter Positional List, Jeff Grant, Roger Hannahs
An Eleven-Letter Positional List, Jeff Grant, Roger Hannahs
Word Ways
In the May 1978 Word Ways, John Meyer exhibited a list of 26 seven-letter words in which the central letter took each alphabetic value (A to Z) and the two three-letter ends were also words. In the August 1978 Word Ways, Leslie Card extended this exercise to nine-letter words, finding examples for all central letters but Q. In this article, we extended it further to eleven letter words.
A Horse Of Another Color, William Sunners
A Horse Of Another Color, William Sunners
Word Ways
William Van Sant, a government clerk in Washington D.C., won 50 thousand dollars in 1950 by using the word CAMELOPARD to identify an illustration of a giraffe in a contest puzzle. This unfamiliar word united perfectly with other object-names in a diagram that yielded a higher numerical total (based on letter-values) than it would have had he used GIRAFFE. His achievement demonstrated the importance of having a large collection of synonyms as an aid in contest puzzle-solving.
Double Pangram Lists, Darryl Francis
Double Pangram Lists, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
The November 1971 Kickshaws introduced the problem of finding thirteen four-letter words which together contain each of the 26 letters twice. Leslie Card exhibited a list of fourteen four-letter words, with four extraneous letters. Dave Silverman commented "we don't expect anyone to come up with a 13-word list in the near future" -- and he was right.
Kickshaws, Mary J. Hazard, Harry W. Hazard
Kickshaws, Mary J. Hazard, Harry W. Hazard
Word Ways
A collection of linguistic kickshaws.
Where There's Smoke ..., Leonard R. N. Ashley
Where There's Smoke ..., Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
In the August 1978 issue of Word Ways, James Rambo showed how "Cigarette Smoking is Dangerous to Your Health" could be repeatedly anagrammed to form a cautionary tale in verse. It's time, therefore, for a quiz on smoking terminology.
A Complex Of Compounds, Maxey Brooke
A Complex Of Compounds, Maxey Brooke
Word Ways
Simeon Potter's Modern Linguistics (Andre Deutsch, London, 1957) states that there are seven types of compound words.
Instructions To Authors
Word Ways
Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to the publication and the back cover of this issue.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
Word Relationships, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Relationships, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
The May 1974 issue of Psychology Today featured an interesting article about efforts under way to "teach" computers to understand and use human language.
Can You Dig For The Nub?, A. Ross Eckler
Can You Dig For The Nub?, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Well, can you? Freely translated, this enigmatic title invites you, the reader, to discover what is logologically unusual about it. Obviously, it is composed of three-letter isograms (words with no repeated letters), but the property is more subtle than this. Read on only if you have given up.
Front Cover And Publication Information
Front Cover And Publication Information
Word Ways
The front cover and publication information for this issue, including the table of contents.
Two Cautionary Tales, James I. Rambo
Two Cautionary Tales, James I. Rambo
Word Ways
In both of the poems below, the letters of the titles are repeatedly rearranged to form the successive lines in each stanza.
More Figures Of Speech, John Mcclellan
More Figures Of Speech, John Mcclellan
Word Ways
Some time ago, a short piece of ours appeared in these pages -- a tale invented as a vehicle to illustrate Figures of Speech. It has been criticized as being saddening and inconclusive, as it undoubtedly is. For those who may not have seen it, it traces the movements of a couple of city-dwellers who had dreamed all their lives of taking a tropical vacation, but each time that it seemed within their reach, some unexpected expense had arisen, putting an end to the project. However, at long last they did get off, and all went happily with them until …
Doubled Prefixes, Edward R. Wolpow
Doubled Prefixes, Edward R. Wolpow
Word Ways
Herman Melville's Moby Dick is prefaced by a section entitled Extracts, consisting of eighty quotations about whales and the author's acknowledgement of the efforts of a Sub-Sub-Librarian, referred to subsequently as a "poor devil of a Sub-Sub". Despite the impeccable credentials of this source, neither word appears in Webster's Second or Third.
Elementary Transpositions, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Elementary Transpositions, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
Transposition of the chemical element names is not elementary -- often, they are extraordinarly difficult to find. Word Ways articles by Darryl Francis in November 1977 and Jeremy Morse and Edward Wolpow in February 1978 tacitly recognize the obstacles by allowing transadditions of element names instead: rearrangements after one or more letters have been added.
Twenty Questions, Ralph G. Beaman
Twenty Questions, Ralph G. Beaman
Word Ways
Twenty clues to four words you know well are given. Use an egg-timer to limit yourself for each clue, in turn. Rate yourself for the position at solving in any way you choose. The authority for all statements is Webster's Third Unabridged.
Cubism Revisited, Jeff Grant
Cubism Revisited, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
In the February 1976 issue of Word Ways, Paul Remley presented an interesting article on three-dimensional word cubes of the sixth order. After re-reading this recently, I decided to attempt a solution using words taken from a single reference only. Mr. Remley stated that he was convinced such a solution existed, and was proved correct when the following cube presented itself after a number of hours delving into the Oxford English dictionary.
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.
Dictionary Immortals, Boris Randolph
Dictionary Immortals, Boris Randolph
Word Ways
In each pair of words below, one is from the name of a person and the other is not. Spot the person.
Restricted Letter Sets, A. Ross Eckler
Restricted Letter Sets, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
In order to understand the limits of recreational linguistics, and in order to identify unsuspected possibilities for research, it is often desirable to map parts of the territory. This was the purpose of "The Word Surgeon's Compendium" in the August 1976 issue and "Words Within Words" in the May 1978 one, and this is the purpose of the present article. In contrast, the ten-year topical index in February 1978 was a global map of wordplay, containing no descriptive detail to justify the taxonomy used.
How To Collect Puzzle Books, William F. Shortz
How To Collect Puzzle Books, William F. Shortz
Word Ways
Collecting puzzle books is the most interesting hobby I can think of. It beats collecting old Buddy Greco records and it sure licks stamps. I wish I could say it's the fastest growing pastime in America, but it isn't. In truth, I doubt there are more than a dozen of us in the field. What a shame there aren't more.
Long Words, Darryl Francis
Long Words, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
I was recently presented with Unitotolinearmultisyllabification, a booklet limited to 50 copies written by Alfred Lubran and published by the Narbulla Agency of London in 1976. This book is devoted to long words.
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.
Fractals, Merlin X. Houdini Iv
Fractals, Merlin X. Houdini Iv
Word Ways
Most of us have been accustomed to placing the entities in our lives, both mathematical and real, in spaces characterized by an integral number of dimensions. Thus, a line has one dimension, an area two dimensions, and a volume three dimensions. The Einsteinian space-time continuum has four dimensions, and some attributes of subatomic particles are most readily considered in spaces of six or more dimensions. Mathematically, it is possible to conceive of a space with an infinite number of dimensions.
Japlish Riddles, Philip M. Cohen
Japlish Riddles, Philip M. Cohen
Word Ways
A couple of years ago, a craze for riddles swept Japan; this inspired an article by James Bailey in the August 22, 1975 issue of Tokyo Weekender, which A. Martin Cohen passed along to me. Many examples in the article are bilingual, or at least involve English loan-words.
One Million English Words, A. Ross Eckler
One Million English Words, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
In exploring the recreational byways of the English language, the most important tool of the logologist is an unabridged dictionary. However, it is often exceedingly tedious to search through a dictionary for words with given properties; as a consequence, many specialized works have been developed to aid the logologist: positional word lists, reverse word lists, pattern word lists and the like. The purpose of this article is to acquaint the reader with a specialized word list which is indispensible in any study involving the relative frequency-of-appearance of words in English-language text.