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Forty-Three Names, Darryl Francis
Forty-Three Names, Darryl Francis
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Here are 43 names of various people, presented in alphabetical order. Some are surnames only, some are first-name and surname, some involve an initial, some are fictional, and some are groups of people.
Missing Persons, Steve Kahan
Missing Persons, Steve Kahan
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Each of the thirty words listed below has resulted from the removal of the same three-letter name from the end and the beginning of two other words and running the remaining letters together. As an illustration, if we were to split the word CREDO between its first and second letters, the insertion of the name ALF would produce CALF and ALFREDO.
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Colloquy
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This March was the eighth Gathering 4 Gardner held every two years in Atlanta to honor Martin Gardner. Gardner was instrumental in the start-up of Word Ways and most readers will be aware of the 93 year-old's long time interest in word play (His book on Word Play is due to be published later this year).
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Instructions To Authors, Subscribers
Instructions To Authors, Subscribers
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Instructions for authors interested in contributing and readers interested in subscribing.
Pairindromes, A. Anil
Pairindromes, A. Anil
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The May Kickshaws (07-128) gave us "Pairagrams", single word anagram-pair couplets. I felt this called for some reversal-pair couplets (phrases or sentences), drawing on William Sunners' little pamphlet "The Puzzle Lover's Book of Reversals" (c. 1982, National Library Publications).
An Oasis From The Stasis: More Linguistic Observations, Paradoxes, And Miscellanea, Don Hauptman
An Oasis From The Stasis: More Linguistic Observations, Paradoxes, And Miscellanea, Don Hauptman
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It's time for another roundup of entertaining language-related trivia that couldn't find a logical place in my usual articles. I compiled this sort of potpourri for the November 2006 issue of Word Ways.
What's In? A Name! - Part Ii, Steve Kahan
What's In? A Name! - Part Ii, Steve Kahan
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Some readers may have been disappointed when their appellations were not among the fifty that appeared in What's In? A Name! (Word Ways, Volume 40, Number 3). To assuage hurt feelings, fifty more are now offered, divided evenly between the sexes for political correctness.
Albuquerque Words, Steve Kahan
Albuquerque Words, Steve Kahan
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Miami words are those which exhibit the letter pattern a b c a b, reverberate being one such. Let us now meet their southwestern cousins. An Albuquerque word is one in which two identical triads appear that are separated by at least one letter. For example, the formal name for a thirty-second note in music, DEMISEMIQUAVER, is an Albuquerque word due to the appearance of the italicized triad EMI in two locations.
Transcendental Wordplay, A. Ross Eckler
Transcendental Wordplay, A. Ross Eckler
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The title of this book by Michael West, an English professor at the University of Pittsburgh, suggested that it might be of interest to Word Ways readers. This was confirmed by a letter from the author, who asserted that "[the book] has much to say about the historical background of many varieties of language play in which your journal specializes. When the book received the 2001 Phi Beta Kappa book award, the publicity release noted that "West ... tries to determine where and how Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, Melville and others got their proclivity for extravagant puns, riddles, acrostics, anagrams …
Tourmaline Magic, Oscar Thumpbindle
Tourmaline Magic, Oscar Thumpbindle
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The pale beige mineral-gem Tourmaline happens to be my birthstone and possesses unexpected magical properties as we will soon see. It is also of great interest logologically since as an isogram it splits nicely into five two-letter words TO-UR-MA-LI-NE all of which may be found in standard dictionaries. Other splits are possible, making this gem very special.
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Exotic Varieties Of Four-Square, Rex Gooch
Exotic Varieties Of Four-Square, Rex Gooch
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Firstly, a definition: a "pop" word is one which occurs in the most-used 87,000 according to the British National Corpus. All rows in this article are pop words, which naturally include initialisms.
What's In A Name (Powhatan?), A. Ross Eckler
What's In A Name (Powhatan?), A. Ross Eckler
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The presidential primary season is in full swing; the various candidates have been analyzed to death. Yet, one aspect of this competition has been ignored - the subliminal message lurking in their names. Names don't lie! Here's an onomastic tour of the leaders as 2008 begins.
Kickshaws, David Morice
Kickshaws, David Morice
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Readers are encouraged to send their favorite linguistic kickshaws to the Kickshaws editor at [email protected]. Answers can be found in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue.
Revenge, Win Emmons
Hail Mary, Full Of Constraints, A. Anil
Hail Mary, Full Of Constraints, A. Anil
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Cheer on poor Mary and her lamb as they suffer yet more pastiches in various constrained forms.
Exercise Your Brain With Bananagrams, Matthew M. Maurer
Exercise Your Brain With Bananagrams, Matthew M. Maurer
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During the last holiday season I stopped by the local game store looking for a few good board games for my teen age sons. The first clerk to help me was a seasonal worker and I was soon convinced that she was not even much of a game player. When I finally got the regular clerk, an obvious game geek, he recommended Bananagrams.
Word Perfect, Dick Wolfsie
Word Perfect, Dick Wolfsie
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During my sons high school years, I lectured him constantly about spending too much time playing video games. I didn't make any progress. Maybe I should have wiated until he took his headset off.
World Champ's Analysis, Jeff Grant
World Champ's Analysis, Jeff Grant
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Nigel Richards of New Zealand won the 9th World Scrabble Championship in Mumbai, India, becoming the ninth different World Champion since the event began in 1991. The fact that no-one has won twice seems to suggest an element of chance is involved. As Nigel modestly put it when interviewed in Mumbai, 'This is a game independent of other games. You win some, you lose some - it depends on the luck of the draw.'
Book Reviews, Philip M. Cohen
Book Reviews, Philip M. Cohen
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Recently two new word books showed up the same day in the new books at the library, both small-format hardbacks: Word Refugees: In Pursuit of Wanted Words by Barbara Wallraff (HarperCollins 2006), $14.95; and The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World by Adam Jacot de Boinod (Penguin 2006), $19.95. I recommend the former.
Generic Limericks, Oscar Thumpbindle
Generic Limericks, Oscar Thumpbindle
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In the August and November 2007 issues of Word Ways, we were entertained by a plethora of Limericks. Here, I offer a few more with a range of generic twists.