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Six-Letter Transposals, A. Ross Eckler
Six-Letter Transposals, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The transposal of PROSE into SPORE is exactly the same as the transposal of OLIVE into VOILE: both can be represented by the transformation 12345 - 41325, which says that the letter in first position is moved to second position, the letter in second position is moved to fourth position, and so on to the letter in fifth position which remains fixed. To save space, the transformation is written 41325.
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Front Cover, Publication Information
Word Ways
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The Lady, Or The Tiger?, Fred Abrams
The Lady, Or The Tiger?, Fred Abrams
Word Ways
Since its publication in Century Magazine in July, 1882, Stockton's classic puzzle story has fascinated generations of Americans. A semi-barbaric princess is faced with the horrifying dilemma of either allowing her lover to wed a beautiful lady, or condemning him to be devoured by a ferocious tiger.
The Advantages Of Odd Exclusions, Robert I. Scott
The Advantages Of Odd Exclusions, Robert I. Scott
Word Ways
Every novel constitutes an interestingly complex set of linguistic experiments demonstrating some of the possibilities of its language to and by the exclusion of all the rest. Extreme cases may demonstrate these possibilities more clearly, and at least in English, no novel seems more arbitrarily extreme than Gadsby, which Ernest Vincent Wright apparently wrote in 1936-1937, with the E typebar of his typewriter tied down with string because, he said in his introduction, someone had told him he could not write coherent grammatical English without using its most common letter.
The Longest Palindrome, Jeff Grant
Prosodic Resonance, F. Juniper
Prosodic Resonance, F. Juniper
Word Ways
We may regard a syllable as consisting of an initial consonant cluster (which may be zero), a vowel cluster, and a final consonant cluster (which may be zero in most schemes of phonemic analysis).
All Words Are Interesting, Pamela H. Brang
All Words Are Interesting, Pamela H. Brang
Word Ways
The scientific method requires that any profound experimental result be verified by duplication. This should be by an independent competent unprejudiced researcher. I qualify.
He, She, It, Tey, Philip M. Cohen
How To Find A Word, Dmitri A. Borgmann
How To Find A Word, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
Logology is a voracious monster, feeding on words. Its priests are forever combing dictionaries, looking for more sacrificial victims that can be offered up to their god.
Traffic: Complaints Iii, Tom Smith
Onomasticon I, George H. Scheetz
Onomasticon I, George H. Scheetz
Word Ways
One of my favorite pastimes is gathering together words that share an interesting suffix -- or perhaps share a similar spelling, regardless of etymology.
Meaningful Anagrams, Boris Randolph
Meaningful Anagrams, Boris Randolph
Word Ways
I recently tried to get EASTERN Airlines to point out that they were NEAREST, in a slogan, but they wouldn't go for it, even though I was in EARNEST.
Blends, Portmanteaus, Centaurs, Sterling Eisiminger
Blends, Portmanteaus, Centaurs, Sterling Eisiminger
Word Ways
Although Spenser and Shakespeare coined blends ("wrizzled" and "glaze" respectively), it was not until Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," begun in 1855 but not completed and published until 1872, that the blend became a truly popular method of word coinage. One measure of the blend's recent popularity is a list of twenty-nine synonyms for "blend" itself published in the December 1933 issue of American Speech.
Timely Neologisms, Darryl Francis
Timely Neologisms, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
For many years Time magazine has had a reputation for introducing new words into the English language. Every issue of Time contains hosts of words which appear novel, or unfamiliar, or are just plain coinages. The bulk of these are destine never to appear in standard dictionaries, but occasionally a few find their way into the mainstream of the English language and are recognized by lexicographers.
Kickshaws, Maxey Brooke
Kickshaws, Maxey Brooke
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.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
Alphabet Rings Of Trigrams, A. Ross Eckler
Alphabet Rings Of Trigrams, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
An alphabet ring is formed if the 26 letters of the alphabet are written down (in any order) on the circumference of a circle, so that each letter has a predecessor and a successor. This article describes several logological studies based on such rings.
Instructions To Authors
Word Ways
Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to the publication.
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.
Least Biased Psychological Assessment Of Non-Verbal Severle Physically Handicapped Persons, Gloria Maitlen Kemper
Least Biased Psychological Assessment Of Non-Verbal Severle Physically Handicapped Persons, Gloria Maitlen Kemper
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The general social problem which this study addresses is the inaccessibility of accurate psychological assessment to some expressively communicatively handicapped members of our society.
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Word Ways
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Unspeakable Suggestions, Stanley L. Payne
Unspeakable Suggestions, Stanley L. Payne
Word Ways
A. A. Milne of Winnie-the-Pooh fame contended that light verse is the hardest and most severely technical work known to authorship. If his appraisal be accepted, then unspeakable rhymes, long known as sight rhymes, go beyond the superlatives of difficulty.
"Pseudofeverishly", Dmitri A. Borgmann
"Pseudofeverishly", Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
In an article in the February 1977 issue of Word Ways, I asserted that all English words and names, without exception, were logologically interesting. In response to that article, I was challenged to find something of logological interest in the word PSEUDOFEVERISHLY.
Gamenung Mid Wordum, Paul Remley
Gamenung Mid Wordum, Paul Remley
Word Ways
Of all living languages, English stands out as an ever-fluent fountainhead of verbal curiosities. Under the relentless scrutiny of the modern horde of minutia-minded logomaniacs, English has afforded a trivia-trove of wordy gems. English has graciously submitted to combings, coinings, and mutilations which would have all but exhausted many denser tongues' gaming potential.
Charade Sentences, Hearst Sill Rogers
Charade Sentences, Hearst Sill Rogers
Word Ways
Charades -- the division of words into parts that are also words, such as PLEASURE = PLEA + SURE -- have been known for a very long time. However, charade sentences were apparently first devised by Howard Bergerson of Sweet Home, Oregon in the early 1960s.
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.
A Wordsworth Of Sports History, Richard Lederer
A Wordsworth Of Sports History, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
Are the readers of Word Ways aware of the illustrious line of sports writers that stretches back even into antiquity? I hope that the following list will illuminate the magnificent tradition.
German-English Word Squares, George J. Grieshaber
German-English Word Squares, George J. Grieshaber
Word Ways
In the last paragraph of "Russian-English Word Squares" in the February 1977 Word Ways, I suggested that readers might want to form some other bilingual word squares, possibly German-English or French-English. In these languages the complete alphabets are practically the same -- not just twelve mutual Russian-English letters. On an impulse, I decided to try my hand at German-English squares, since my surname befits that foreign language more than Russian. The results are shown at the end of this article, following a bit of discussion on these two-language squares.
Up Your Wordpower, Ralph G. Beaman
Up Your Wordpower, Ralph G. Beaman
Word Ways
Nearly everyone, not excluding, pardon the expression, many readers of Word Ways, is scared stiff of big words. A word don't have to be long to be a big word. Any word out of the, as they say, every day casual conversation type of word is big. And what fear such words can strike in the hearts and minds of them who meets them. Wow!