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Instructions To Authors May 1978

Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute.

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Tribute To A Logophile May 1978

Tribute To A Logophile

Word Ways

Dave Silverman, Kickshaws editor for 26 Word Ways issues between 1969 and 1975, died in Los Angeles in March, 1978.

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A Logological Commonplace Book, Hearst Sill Rogers Feb 1978

A Logological Commonplace Book, Hearst Sill Rogers

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Commonplace Book: -A book in which "commonplaces" or passages important for reference are collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement (Oxford English Dictionary) -A book of literary passages, cogent quotations, occasional thoughts, or other memorabilia (Webster's Third); a book containing memoranda of passages or events for reference (Webster's Second) -A book in which noteworthy quotations, poems, comments, etc. are written (Random House Unabridged) -A book in which memoranda or memorable passages or facts are recorded methodically (Funk & Wagnalls Unabridged) -A …

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Elementary Improvements, Jeremy Morse, Edward R. Wolpow Feb 1978

Elementary Improvements, Jeremy Morse, Edward R. Wolpow

Word Ways

We respond to Darryl Francis' invitation to discover transadditions of the chemical element names using fewer letters than the ones in his article "Elementary, My Dear Reader" in the November 1977 Word Ways.

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A Ten-Year Topical Index Feb 1978

A Ten-Year Topical Index

Word Ways

The following index has been designed to help the reader locate specific types of wordplay appearing in the first ten years of Word Ways. Related articles and notes are grouped together, according to a taxonomy which has evolved over the last several years.

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Caught In The Web Of Words, A. Ross Eckler Feb 1978

Caught In The Web Of Words, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Caught in the Web of Words is the biography of James A. H. Murray, the Victorian lexicographer who was the chief editor of the incomparable Oxford English Dictionary. Drawing upon unpublished Murray family records as well as Oxford University Press files, his granddaughter Elisabeth Murray has given us a far more detailed account of the man than was previously possible: not merely his 35-year struggle to turn an undigested mass of several million citations sent in by volunteer readers into a dictionary designed to show the historical development of each word from twelfth-century Englan onward, but also his effort to …

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On Figures Of Speech, John Mcclellan Nov 1977

On Figures Of Speech, John Mcclellan

Word Ways

It is a toss-up with many persons as to whether History or Mathematics is their most unfavorite subject, and we shall keep this introduction to a minimum for that reason. Luckily, Mathematics does not concern us here, but we feel that a small amount of historical background should be supplied in the interest of clarification.

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Distillation, Mary W. Matthews Nov 1977

Distillation, Mary W. Matthews

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If not for you, I'd not be in this fix--
You came to me, you smiled deep in my eyes.
I knew not then I'd feel grief's hot, sharp pricks;
No, I was coaxed by false love's lures and sighs.

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Front Cover, Publication Information Nov 1977

Front Cover, Publication Information

Word Ways

Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents

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Kickshaws, Willard R. Espy Nov 1977

Kickshaws, Willard R. Espy

Word Ways

Kickshaws is currently being assembled by a series of guest editors. All contributions should be sent to the editor in Morristown, New Jersey.

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Eleven Positions, Frederick Dawson Nov 1977

Eleven Positions, Frederick Dawson

Word Ways

A phrase migrates to different positions in different blocks of text.

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Vowel-Consonant Patterns, Philip M. Cohen Nov 1977

Vowel-Consonant Patterns, Philip M. Cohen

Word Ways

In his article "Seven-Letter Words" in the August 1968 Word Ways, Dmitri Borgmann tackled the problem of finding seven-letter words containing an excess of vowels or consonants.

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Palindromic Charade Sentences, James I. Rambo Nov 1977

Palindromic Charade Sentences, James I. Rambo

Word Ways

The construction of palindromes is an extremely old entertainment among word lovers and requires no introduction. Much newer are charade sentences which were introduced by Howard Bergerson in Word Ways and most recently discussed there by Hearst Sill Rogers in the May 1977 issue. In the February 1977 Word Ways there appeared a series of "double" palindromes by the writer of this article. Some readers have doubtless recognized the double palindrome as being merely a pair of charade sentences composed with the additional constraint of being palindromic or, more simply, of being palindromic charade sentences. I believe this to be …

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Colloquy Nov 1977

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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Roman Holiday, Boris Randolph Nov 1977

Roman Holiday, Boris Randolph

Word Ways

If you are at SIXES and SEVENS with regard to Roman numbers, note that the SIX contains a 9 and the SEVEN, a 5. Some of our other numbers have Roman figures in them, too.

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Traffic: Complaints Iv, Tom Smith Nov 1977

Traffic: Complaints Iv, Tom Smith

Word Ways

A list.

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"X" As In Xerxes, Dmitri A. Borgmann Nov 1977

"X" As In Xerxes, Dmitri A. Borgmann

Word Ways

It is the awesome responsibility of parents to choose names for their offspring. In picking suitable names, they must try to find ones meeting certain standards regarded as desirable in our society. Specifically, names should be (1) short, (2) modern, (3) euphonious, (4) free of unpleasant connotations, (5) easy to pronounce, (6) matching the sex of the child being named, and (7) distinctive.

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A Word Path Puzzle, Charles Bostick Nov 1977

A Word Path Puzzle, Charles Bostick

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In each of the 25 five-by-five letter arrays below, a word having no repeated letters can be traced out by horizontal or vertical steps.
As you discover the word in each array, place its initial letter in a blank five-by-five square whose cells are defined by the positions of the 25 individual arrays in the square pattern below.

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Natrix, Ralph G. Beaman Nov 1977

Natrix, Ralph G. Beaman

Word Ways

Here's a one-dimensional crossword for all you jaded fans. Simply fill in the letters as called for by the definitions to find a (11, 5, 5) dictionary phrase. As there are as many words as letters you should have no trouble in completing it. If you don't have a dictionary handy and end up stumped, see Answers and Solutions.

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Notes On Palindromes, Robert Funt Nov 1977

Notes On Palindromes, Robert Funt

Word Ways

Outside of Sotades, the inventor of the form, the greatest palindromist in history may well be the late-Victorian poet Edwin Fitzpatrick, now principally remembered for his translation of Omar Khayyam which he entitled "The Rubaiyat of Charades and Palindromes". Although his rendering has been termed eccentrick and even obscure by some, there is little doubt that he remained faithful both to the Tentmaker's rigid use of quatrains and his highly phantasmagorial sense of imagery.

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Words With Two Doubled Letters, Philip M. Cohen Nov 1977

Words With Two Doubled Letters, Philip M. Cohen

Word Ways

In the February 1973 Word Ways, Darryl Francis searched for examples of words having two doubled letters (as abbess and buccaneer). Specifically, he attempted to find examples for all doubled pairs excluding J, Q, V and X -- that is, words containing aa-aa, aa-bb, aa-cc, ... , yy-zz, zz-zz.

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Got That Rhythm, Maxey Brooke Nov 1977

Got That Rhythm, Maxey Brooke

Word Ways

Some talented performers, like Sid Caesar, can speak a series of nonsense syllables and, by varying the rhythm, make their audience think they are speaking French, Spanish, German, Italian, or Russian.

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The Patterns Of Statenames, A. Ross Eckler Nov 1977

The Patterns Of Statenames, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Word play involving the names of the fifty states, or their US Post Office abbreviations, has frequently appeared in Word Ways. This subject is appealing, I think, because it deals with a word list of manageable size; one can easily discuss the logological properties of the whole set of words, as Dmitri Borgmann did in the November 1970 issue when he sought state name transpositions. Furthermore, readers tend to identify with the states in which they live, offering improvements on the original.

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Living Terror, Merlin X. Houdini Nov 1977

Living Terror, Merlin X. Houdini

Word Ways

Living organisms move. They act. Their actions may be inimical to man's best interests. They inspire fear, dread, even terror. From time immemorial, humans have viewed with alarm, nay, with horror, the evil that lurks inside living consciousness.

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Answers And Solutions Nov 1977

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.

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Instructions To Authors Nov 1977

Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to the publication.

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Back Cover Nov 1977

Back Cover

Word Ways

Back cover of this issue.

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Strike-Outs: Even-Letter Deletions, Stanley L. Payne Nov 1977

Strike-Outs: Even-Letter Deletions, Stanley L. Payne

Word Ways

Various kinds of wordplay can be devised using deletions: the APRICOT contains a PIT, household GARBAGE yields GARAGE sales. The May 1967 Word Ways featured Tom Pulliam's synonymic deletions: INDOLENT contains IDLE, to DECLINE is to DIE. This article features a special class of deletions -- those in which the even letters of a word are struck out, leaving another word.

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"Everybody Loves A Baby ...", George J. Grieshaber Nov 1977

"Everybody Loves A Baby ...", George J. Grieshaber

Word Ways

I use my 1961 Webster's Third New International Dictionary, backed up by a 1945 Second Edition. I was raised, literally, on an old Funk and Wagnalls which lifted my five inches closer to the dining room table top.

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Elementary, My Dear Reader, Darryl Francis Nov 1977

Elementary, My Dear Reader, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

In the very first issue of Word Ways (February, 1968), Dmitri Borgmann looked at the transposability of the names of a few of the chemical elements. For example, CURRY ME can be rearranged to give MERCURY, and A TIN LUMP can be rearranged to give PLATINUM. Unfortunately, terms like CURRY ME and A TIN LUMP are not recorded in any dictionaries we know of.

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