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Add A Vowel, Steve Kahan

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Add a vowel and rearrange each set of letters to form a word.

Ping Pong, Ding Dong & Sing Song, David Shaw

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An essay on word pairs with various forms of reduplication.

Punk Whiz 23, . Anil

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A quiz with clues given for a resulting pun.

Removing Separated, Alphabetically-Adjacent, Letters, Susan Thorpe

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The 2 alphabetically-adjacent letters to be removed from the word must:

be in alphabetical order in the word

be separated by one or more letters

have no duplicates in the word

Reversed Vowel Countries, Susan Thorpe

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in BRAZIL and ITALY the same 2 vowels (A and I) occur in reverse order. Brazil and Italy could be described as reversed vowel countries.

Word Ways V.52 No.4 Complete Issue

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The complete issue in one file.

Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors wishing to submit articles for future issues.

It's "Know" Contest: A Quinquagenary Tribute To The New York Magazine Competition, Don Hauptman

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A tribute to the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the New York Magazine Competition.

Transposals Between U.S. Place Names, Eric Tentarelli

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In Word Ways in November 1973, Dmitri Borgmann searched for names of U.S. Cities, towns, or villages that were transposals of each other. The longest well-mixed pair he found consisted of 9-letter names: MASTERSON, Texas, and SEARSMONT, Maine. It is worthwhile to revisit this topic in hopes of finding longer examples.

The Martin Game, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell

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The MARTIN diagram uses each letter of the name to form nine chemical symbols.The Game. Two players alternately select nodes trying to obtain three nodes with a common letter or three nodes of the same color obtaining all the letters of MARTIN.

The Inside And Outside Of Four Letter Words, Susan Thorpe

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Letters are given their alphabetical values A=1 to Z=26. In each of the four categories, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, the first and last letters of a 4-letter word work together to give the same result as the second and third letters working together.

Opposites In Sentences, Susan Thorpe

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Out with the old and in with the new is a well known saying. What it also has is two pairs of opposites: OUT and IN OLD and NEW

The Disko Magic Square, Jeremiah Farrelll

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Our DISKOS are tokens marked with raised domino pips that can easily be identified by touch alone. We will demonstrate how to use such tokens in several mathematical puzzles and games.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 52, Issue 3

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The front cover and publication information for this issue including the table of contents.

Cubic Magic, Jeremiah Farrell

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A compilation on Martin Gardner and puzzles.

Homophonic Spoonerisms, Susan Thorpe

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A listing of two word phrases that are both Homophones and Spoonerisms.

Quiz: Double Up In Tears 3, . Anil

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Find two words spelt the same except that one letter is doubled in one but not the other.

Colloquy

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A collection of readers' responses to previously published articles.

Visual Palindromes In Hangul, Roman Pyrih

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A discussion of the Korean script, Hangul and visual palindromes found within it.

...And The Last Shall Be First, David Shaw

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Transposing word by dividing them into three parts in such a way that leaves the middle letter(s) unchanged while the outer letters get swapped over.

Mean Sidewalks, . Anil

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A regular column.

Mirror Palindromes, Darryl Francis

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An expansion of Dmitti Borgmann's concept of "mirror palindromes."

Word Ways V.52 No.3 Complete Issue

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The complete issue in one file.

Add A Vowel, Steve Kahan

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Add a vowel to each of these 5-lettered combinations to create a word.

Removing Common Endings To Make Words, Susan Thorpe

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Pairs of words which end with the same group of letters have their common letter group removed so that the remaining letters form a word.

More Straights And Curves, . Anil

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Further variants on the May 2019 article "Straight Letters and Curves."

We're Looking For The Smoking Pun, Don Hauptman

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A new collection of puns.

Transposing Split Words, Susan Thorpe

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A list of words split in two. The two parts may, or may not, have an equal number of letters. The letters of each part are, respectively, rearranged to make a 2-word phrase.

Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors wishing to submit an article for future issues.

Country Transpositions, Darryl Francis, Jeff Grant

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We love transpositions, especially of complete sets of words and names, or nearly complete sets. Word Ways has previously published, amongst others, transpositions of the names of days of the week, planets, US states, chemical elements, drugs and the 300 or so largest US cities. Our latest venture has been to search for transpositions of the names of countries of the world. In this article, we present our best finds.