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In Time Of Need, One Has Need Of Time: More Spoonerisms And Transposition Puns, Original And Otherwise., Don Hauptman Nov 2016

In Time Of Need, One Has Need Of Time: More Spoonerisms And Transposition Puns, Original And Otherwise., Don Hauptman

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A collection of original puns.


Anagram Quiz 19, . Anil Nov 2016

Anagram Quiz 19, . Anil

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A quiz.


Strange Words - And Beyond, Darryl Francis Nov 2016

Strange Words - And Beyond, Darryl Francis

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Finding the shortest word that can be spelled out using the letters in the first and last names of well-known people.


Colloquy, Editor Word Ways Nov 2016

Colloquy, Editor Word Ways

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Reader's responses to previously published articles.


Etaoin Shrdlu Words, . Anil Nov 2016

Etaoin Shrdlu Words, . Anil

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Etaoin shrdlu, the classic 12 most frequent letters, make up 46% of the alphabet and are the first letters on 55% of Web3 pages, so one would expect lots of words to contain these letters alone.


Initial-Friendly And Friendly Initial Letters, . Anil Nov 2016

Initial-Friendly And Friendly Initial Letters, . Anil

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Which letters form words with the most added initial letters? Excluding abbreviates, proper nouns and affixes, I answer the question from monograms to tetragrams.


A Different Type Of Compound Word, Susan Thorpe Nov 2016

A Different Type Of Compound Word, Susan Thorpe

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Transposing chemical compounds into words.


Hidden States, Darryl Francis Nov 2016

Hidden States, Darryl Francis

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A look at words from which names of states can be spelled out.


The Refractory Redividerdrome, Jim Puder Nov 2016

The Refractory Redividerdrome, Jim Puder

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A discussion of Palindromic charade sentence pairs.


Noah's Vowels, Susan Thorpe Nov 2016

Noah's Vowels, Susan Thorpe

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Finding single words with just 2 of each of their different vowels.


Mean Sidewalks 2, . Anil Nov 2016

Mean Sidewalks 2, . Anil

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A quiz.


Dr. Stephens' Star-Crossed Stanzas, Jim Puder Nov 2016

Dr. Stephens' Star-Crossed Stanzas, Jim Puder

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A discussion of David L. Stephens and his word-unit palindrome poetry.


Letter-Patterned Words, Susan Thorpe Nov 2016

Letter-Patterned Words, Susan Thorpe

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Here we look at letters made of straight lines; letters made of a curve; and letters made of both and words they can create using various patterns.


Rhyming Synonyms 1, . Anil Nov 2016

Rhyming Synonyms 1, . Anil

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Part one of an explanation and listing of rhyming synonyms.


Back Cover And Instructions To Authors, Editor Word Ways Nov 2016

Back Cover And Instructions To Authors, Editor Word Ways

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The back cover of this issue, including a puzzle and instructions to authors.


Answers And Solutions, Editor Word Ways Nov 2016

Answers And Solutions, Editor Word Ways

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The answers and solutions to the puzzles and quizzes in this issue.


Kickshaws, Dave Morice Nov 2016

Kickshaws, Dave Morice

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A collection of linguistic kickshaws.


Tranposing Phrases Part 4, Susan Thorpe Aug 2016

Tranposing Phrases Part 4, Susan Thorpe

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In part 4, the 1st word of the first phrase is the same as the second word of the 2nd phrase.


Transposing Phrases Part 3, Susan Thorpe Aug 2016

Transposing Phrases Part 3, Susan Thorpe

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In part 3, both 2-word phrases share a word.


Something For Every Pun: More (Mostly) Original Wordplay Deployed In Real-Life Situations, Don Hauptman Aug 2016

Something For Every Pun: More (Mostly) Original Wordplay Deployed In Real-Life Situations, Don Hauptman

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A collection of original puns.


Tennis Puns, . Anil Aug 2016

Tennis Puns, . Anil

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A collection of tennis related words turned in to puns.


Crossword Craze Songs, Harold Jacobs Aug 2016

Crossword Craze Songs, Harold Jacobs

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Three songs from the 1920's.


Alphametics, Steven Kahan Aug 2016

Alphametics, Steven Kahan

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A mathematical game.


Colloquy, Editor Word Ways Aug 2016

Colloquy, Editor Word Ways

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.


Who Was Armand T. Ringer?, Jeremiah Farrell, Dana Richards, Thomas Rodgers Aug 2016

Who Was Armand T. Ringer?, Jeremiah Farrell, Dana Richards, Thomas Rodgers

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An essay detailing the many pseudonyms, pen names and alter egos of Martin Gardner.


Woodland Logology, A. Ross Eckler Aug 2016

Woodland Logology, A. Ross Eckler

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The following sign is posted at the entrance to a nature preserve one mile north of Johnsonburg, New Jersey. Can you determine what is unusual about it?


Alan Lewis - Punster, Karen Farrell Aug 2016

Alan Lewis - Punster, Karen Farrell

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Alan Lewis has submitted puns to London's Sunday Times since 1971. His first was "Telling bulls from cows is easy; if it's not one thing it's the udder." In a recent letter to us he comments:


Instructions To Authors, Editor Word Ways Aug 2016

Instructions To Authors, Editor Word Ways

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Instructions to authors.


A Redividerdrome Mystery, Lori Wike Aug 2016

A Redividerdrome Mystery, Lori Wike

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A short story.


Elemental Sentences, Susan Thorpe Aug 2016

Elemental Sentences, Susan Thorpe

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These pairs of sentences are constructed from elemental symbols