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Alphametics, Steven Kahan
Melencolia, Jeremiah Farrell
Melencolia, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
The back cover puzzle is in honor of Albrecht Durer's 1514 etching "Melencolia I" and uses only the letters of the title.
Elementary Equations, Susan Thorpe
Elementary Equations, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Elements with atomic numbers 1-92 are the naturally occurring elements. For 86 of these I can offer mathematical proof of their atomic numbers by assigning alphabetical values to the letters of the element.
Three More Doublets, Daniel W. Galef
We, The Fans, Lindsey Clouse
We, The Fans, Lindsey Clouse
Word Ways
Why does any sports fan say "we" when talking about her team? What, exactly, is happening in her mind, on a conscious or subconscious level, when she says it? My search for the answer led me through a number of scholarly sources, and finally to conduct my own research.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 48, Number 3
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 48, Number 3
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue, including the table of contents.
Recent Poems: The Elephant's Lithe Proboscis, Ron Singer
Alphametics, Steven Kahan
Alakazarca!, . Anil
The Nautonym Story, Susan Thorpe
The Nautonym Story, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
This story began over a year ago on page 106 of the May 2014 issue of Word Ways when Anil challenged me to find what he called NAUTONYMS, "sounded but not spelled tautonyms like RETREAT".
Norwich Bumstead Puzzles, Jeremiah Farrell
Norwich Bumstead Puzzles, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
Answers to the two back cover puzzles.
Anagram Quiz 16, . Anil
Isomorph Pairings, Susan Thorpe
Isomorph Pairings, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
In my Designer Isomorphs (WW May 2001), the various different Isomorph genres included a few Isomorph pairings. Here are more.
Self-Defining Numbers, . Anil
Self-Defining Numbers, . Anil
Word Ways
Using anagrams to define number words rarely succeeds because the meanings are so precise. Frustrated, I've explored five alternative word play devices for self-defining numbers.
Multiple Switch, Andy Liu
Multiple Switch, Andy Liu
Word Ways
Readers are challenged to find or construct other examples of multiple switch, involving the eight parts of speech.
Extractions, Susan Thorpe
Extractions, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
A word has one letter (any letter) extracted from it to make another word. This word, in turn, has a letter (any letter) extracted from it to make another word. Such extracting is continued until a 2-letter word remains.
Ichthyornithonymy, Tristan Miller
Ichthyornithonymy, Tristan Miller
Word Ways
Below is a list of animal names. Fourteen of them are genuine names of birds, fourteen are genuine names of fish, one is shared by both a bird and a fish, and one is completely fictitious. Can you correctly classify all thirty?
We Present A Present, . Anil, Jeff Grant
We Present A Present, . Anil, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
The present present we present is an unnamed class of same-word homonyms we dub FOOLERS: words of the same root, spelling and basic or approximate meaning that fool us by differing in pronunciation in different forms, like the present and past tenses of "read'.
Names In The News...And News In The Names, Don Hauptman
Names In The News...And News In The Names, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
More original spoonerisms and transposition puns.
Its All Greek To Me, Susan Thorpe
Its All Greek To Me, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
There are 24 letters in the Greek Alphabet:alpha beta gamma delta epsilon eta zeta theta iota kappa lambda mu nu xi omicron pi rho sigma tau upsilon phi chi psi omega. Each of the couplets below includes the names of 2 of these letters. They are not in alphabetical order.
One Hundred Shades Of Ee: Dmitri Borgmann's Dream Comes True, Richard Lederer
One Hundred Shades Of Ee: Dmitri Borgmann's Dream Comes True, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
A long time ago in a Word Ways far, far away - November 1978, to be exact - I published "orthograffiti," an article that explored the chasm that stretches between phonology, the way words sound, and orthography, the way words are spelled.
Anagram Quiz 17, . Anil
Alphabet Poems, Jon Bannon
Disjoint Word Chains, Sean A. Irvine
Disjoint Word Chains, Sean A. Irvine
Word Ways
The purpose of this note is to investigate the longest disjoint word chains for various other sets of words and to explain the computer-assisted solution of such problems.
Dictating A Letter, Daniel W. Galef
Dictating A Letter, Daniel W. Galef
Word Ways
It is well-known and well-lampooned that crossword puzzles have their own peculiar (and quite so) vocabulary, for reasons of practicality and tradition.
Two-Row Typewriter Words, Darryl Francis
Two-Row Typewriter Words, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
What are the longest words typeable using the keys on the top and middles rows; similarly, on the top and bottom rows; and then on the middle and bottom rows?
Kamchatka Words - Part 1, Steve Kahan
From A To Z Both Sides Now, Jeff Grant
From A To Z Both Sides Now, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
This article examines a different type of double-hook word, where the same letter is added simultaneously at the front and end to form a new word.