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Word Ways V.53 No.4 Complete Issue Nov 2020

Word Ways V.53 No.4 Complete Issue

Word Ways

The final complete issue of Word Ways in one file.


More Word Ways?, Jeremiah Farrell Aug 2020

More Word Ways?, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A reminder that Word Ways is ending and a puzzle.


Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 53, Issue 3 Aug 2020

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 53, Issue 3

Word Ways

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


Ciphers And Structures, Alex J. Quiz Aug 2020

Ciphers And Structures, Alex J. Quiz

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A discussion of ciphers and structures as wordplay with examples.


Doubled Letter Sentences, Susan Thorpe Aug 2020

Doubled Letter Sentences, Susan Thorpe

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A collection of sentences in which each word has doubled letters.


Football Wusses, Roger E. Rondeau Aug 2020

Football Wusses, Roger E. Rondeau

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An essay comparing football and baseball inspired by George Carlin and Tom Boswell.


Homophonic Couplets, Brian Garrison Aug 2020

Homophonic Couplets, Brian Garrison

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A series of couplets ending with homophones.


Matching Transposed Letter Patterns, Susan Thorpe Aug 2020

Matching Transposed Letter Patterns, Susan Thorpe

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The author matches transposals that use the same letter pattern.


For Martin Gardner A Puzzle And Game, Jeremiah Farrell Aug 2020

For Martin Gardner A Puzzle And Game, Jeremiah Farrell

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A word puzzle and game using the letters in the name "Martin Gardner."


Mean Sidewalks, . Anil Aug 2020

Mean Sidewalks, . Anil

Word Ways

A regular column.


In This Best Of All Possible...Words!, Don Hauptman Aug 2020

In This Best Of All Possible...Words!, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

An Omnium Gatheram of linguistic humor and miscellanea


More Coincental Self-Similarities, . Anil Aug 2020

More Coincental Self-Similarities, . Anil

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These are similar words, some nearly synonyms, which surprisingly are not etymologically related.


Removing The First Letter Or The Last Letter Leaves A Word, Susan Thorpe Aug 2020

Removing The First Letter Or The Last Letter Leaves A Word, Susan Thorpe

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The word under consideration makes another word when either its first or last letter in removed.


Numbers In Words, Darryl Francis Aug 2020

Numbers In Words, Darryl Francis

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This article was inspired by my 5-year-old grand-daughter who once asked me "Do some words have numbers in them, as well as letters?"


San Diego, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell Aug 2020

San Diego, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell

Word Ways

A puzzle.


Up On The Downs, Or Down On Your Uppers, David Shaw Aug 2020

Up On The Downs, Or Down On Your Uppers, David Shaw

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An essay on the ways we use the words UP and DOWN.


Transposal Phrases, Susan Thorpe Aug 2020

Transposal Phrases, Susan Thorpe

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These are 2-word phrases in which the 2 words consist of the same letters. Hence they are transposal phrases.


Wa - Wordaholics Anonymous, Roger E. Rondeau Aug 2020

Wa - Wordaholics Anonymous, Roger E. Rondeau

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An essay on how the English language is being butchered and a fictional recovery organization to combat it.


Verbo(C)Ity, Roger E. Rondeau Aug 2020

Verbo(C)Ity, Roger E. Rondeau

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There are two kinds of cities in this country.


Words Containing Us State Abbreviations, Darryl Francis Aug 2020

Words Containing Us State Abbreviations, Darryl Francis

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A quest to find the smallest set of words that contain all 50 two letter abbreviations for US states and for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the US territories.


Words With Two Different Vowels, Susan Thorpe Aug 2020

Words With Two Different Vowels, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Sentences and 2-word phrases are made from words having the same 2 different vowels, in the same order.


A Puzzle To Honor Dr. Stephen Bloom, Jeremiah Farrell Aug 2020

A Puzzle To Honor Dr. Stephen Bloom, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A Puzzle.


The Mathemagical Game Of Martin Gardner, Asif Hossain Aug 2020

The Mathemagical Game Of Martin Gardner, Asif Hossain

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A game.


Sound Reversals, Susan Thorpe Aug 2020

Sound Reversals, Susan Thorpe

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A word is divided into letter groups, the letter groups are then read in reverse order, and their sounds make another word.


Crosswords For Each Chapter In Annotated Alice, Ashley Post Aug 2020

Crosswords For Each Chapter In Annotated Alice, Ashley Post

Word Ways

A series of crossword puzzles.


Instructions To Authors Aug 2020

Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

Instructions to authors for submitting articles to future issues of Word Ways.


Word Ways V.53 No.3 Complete Issue Aug 2020

Word Ways V.53 No.3 Complete Issue

Word Ways

The complete issue in one file.


Words Made From The Letters Of Alphabetically-Adjacent Letter Pairs, Susan Thorpe Jul 2020

Words Made From The Letters Of Alphabetically-Adjacent Letter Pairs, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

The search is on for words made exclusively from the letters in alphabetically-adjacent letter pairs.


Word Ways Ends!, Jeremiah Farrell May 2020

Word Ways Ends!, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

Announcement about the future of Word Ways.


A Steve Bloom Puzzle, Jeremiah Farrell May 2020

A Steve Bloom Puzzle, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A puzzle used for the Alice in Wonderland class at Butler University, used now to honor Dr. Steve Bloom.