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K-Birds Of New Zealand, Jeff Grant

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A list of birds that either live in or visit New Zealand that all start with K.

Alphametics, Steven Kahan

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A mathematical game.

Find The Literary Titles, Arthur Schulman

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Find the literary titles that can be made using all the consonants in the given phrases, each consonant being used at least once.

Poems, John Bannon

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A collection of poems in which each word starts with the same letter.

And Cabbages And Kings, Harold Jacobs

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A word puzzle and a riddle.

Antigram Quiz 2, . Anil

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A quiz in which all the answers are anagrams or polyanagrams of the clues and are also in some sense their opposites or complements.

Back Cover Crossword Puzzle, Editor Word Ways

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A crossword puzzle.

Crossdrome 07, John Falcone

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A crossword puzzle.

Making Ends Meet, Will Shortz

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These are the author's favorite entries in a creative writing competition he conducted. The object was to compose a sentence of exactly 10 words, each ending in the same letter of the alphabet.

The Nautonym Story Continues, . Anil, Jeff Grant

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Nautonyms are words pronounced but not spelt tautologically, like RETREAT. Susan's challenge prompted us to reexamine all 32 nautonym candidates proffered by her and us and Dave Morice, plus two dozen new ones.

Azerty And Qwertz Keyboards, Darryl Francis

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Previous editions of Word Ways have identified the longest words and names which can be typed on each of the individual rows of a standard QWERTY keyboard. But how do things change when using other keyboard layouts? Here I'll examine two alternative keyboard layouts - the AZERTY and QWERTZ keyboards.

Fun With Nautonyms, . Anil

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Here's an alphabet of coined phrase nautonyms that mostly avoids paired homophones (but not silliness).

Gifts From An Homonymous Benefactor, Don Hauptman

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Colloquy

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A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Antigram Quiz 1, . Anil

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This is like an anagram quiz except the anagrams or polyanagrams are in some sense opposites, complements, or mutually exclusive.

Geographical Palindrome Contest, David Morice

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The winners and entries from the August 2014 Word Ways Geographic Palindrome Contest.

*Please note page numbers are not accurate in this .pdf which has been edited to correct the order of pages in the print edition.

The Twelve Days Of Christmas, Susan Thorpe

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Mathematical equations for the twelve days of Christmas.

Animal Or Plant?, Jeff Grant

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Identify the names in this palindromic list as an animal or plant.

Dvorak And Colemak Keyboards, Darryl Francis

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A previous article investigate typable words from the various rows of keys on the AZERTY and QWERTZ keyboards. In this article, I look at the layouts of the DVORAK and COLEMAK keyboards.

Singular Consonant Trios -1, Steve Kahan

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Can you form 8 letter words by adding vowels to these consonant trios?

Alphabet Poems, Jon Bannon

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A collection of poems.

The Arringtons, Jeff Grant

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How many surnames end in -ARRINGTON? Here is an attempt to compile an initial alphabetic insertion, made up of names starting with every letter from A to Z.

Playful Poems, Ray Love

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A collection of poems.

Answers And Solutions

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Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games in this issue.

Crossdrone 08, John Falcone

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A crossword puzzle.

Now My Fifty ++ Great New Isograms, Darryl Francis

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Over the years, Word Ways has identified many of the longest isograms, words and names which use no repeated letters. Here are some new entries.

Secondhand Rows

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Classified advertising for current subscribers.

Kickshaws, David Morice

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A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 48, Number 4

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

On Building Words Out Of Trigrams, A. Ross Eckler

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Some thoughts on creating words out of Trigrams.