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Answers and solutions to the puzzles and quizzes contained in this issue.
Books On Language, Words, Etc., David Singmaster
Books On Language, Words, Etc., David Singmaster
Word Ways
A compilation of books about language, words, etc.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 48, Number 2
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 48, Number 2
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Front cover and publication information for this issue, including a table of contents.
Faded Dinosaurs And Closed Puppies: More Mixed And Mashed Metaphors, Don Hauptman
Faded Dinosaurs And Closed Puppies: More Mixed And Mashed Metaphors, Don Hauptman
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David Carr, the prominent journalist who died earlier this year, wrote in one of his final columns: "Contrast that with Verizon, whose efforts to dip a toe into publishing turned out to be all thumbs." Mixed metaphors are usually errors, In this case, however, Carr used the device intentionally for effect.
New Puzzles On Knight-Graphable Words, Mike Keith, Tristan Miller
New Puzzles On Knight-Graphable Words, Mike Keith, Tristan Miller
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In a previous article we examined some properties of knight-graphable words. A word is knight-graphable (NG) if the distinct letters of the alphabet used in the word can be placed on separate squares of an arbitrarily large chessboard such that a chess knight can spell out the word by starting on the square labelled with the word's first letter and making a series of knight's moves to the successive letters in the word.
Doubling Up, Steve Kahan
Doubling Up, Steve Kahan
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In baseball, a speedy runner can sometimes transform a single into a double by "turning up the jets." An analogous metamorphosis in the world of wordplay creates a new specimen from an old one by replacing one of its interior letters with two copies of the same. For instance, GRIPE becomes GRIPPE when the letter "P" is doubled up.
New Typewriter Words, Darryl Francis
New Typewriter Words, Darryl Francis
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In his Language on Vacation, Dmitri Borgmann drew attention to what he called "typewriter words." Dmitri posed various questions about the longest words which could be typed on the different rows of the typewriter keyboard, words which could be typed entirely by the left hand and words which could be typed entirely by the right hand. As 2015 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Language on Vacation, it's worth revisiting some of Dmitri's findings.
Letter Perfect, Richard Lederer
Kahan To Bring Alphametics To Word Ways, Jeremiah Farrell
Kahan To Bring Alphametics To Word Ways, Jeremiah Farrell
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The Journal of Recreational Mathematics, which first appeared January 1968, has suddenly stopped publishing with its December, 2014 38(2) issue. For nearly 30 years Steven Kahan was editor of JRM's Alphametics column and has happily agreed to continue the column in Word Ways.
Poems - Part I: Letter C, John Bannon
Generic Vowel Patterns, Susan Thorpe
Generic Vowel Patterns, Susan Thorpe
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These words have either a palindromic (aea) vowel pattern or a tautonumic (aeae) vowel pattern. They contain no extraneous vowels. No two vowels occur next to each other.
Seesaw Word Ladders, . Anil, Ross Eckler
Seesaw Word Ladders, . Anil, Ross Eckler
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Seesaw word ladders are ladders that alternate or seesaw between lists of transpositions (anagrams) of just two words (or alphomes) that differ by a single letter.
Magic "Palindromes", Jeremiah Farrell
Removing Interrupted Letter Patterns, Susan Thorpe
Removing Interrupted Letter Patterns, Susan Thorpe
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This article details requirements and examples of removing interrupted letter patterns from words.
Palindromes From Perth 2, Jeff Grant
Palindromes From Perth 2, Jeff Grant
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A palindrome filled account of the author's trip to Western Australia.
Gadsby: Wikip_Dia's Lost Lipogram, Tristan Miller
Gadsby: Wikip_Dia's Lost Lipogram, Tristan Miller
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Ernest Vincent Wright's novel Gadsby is legendary among constrained writing enthusiasts. When it was first published in 1939, it was the single largest work of English literature not to contain the letter "e". It is hardly surprising, then, that the book's many reviewers and commentators have sought to pay tribute to it with some modest lipogrammatry of their own. This article tells the story of one such tribute and the years-long battle it sparked on the world's largest and most popular online encyclopedia.
"M" Bellishments, Steve Kahan
"M" Bellishments, Steve Kahan
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In the matching quiz that follows, twenty clues for targeted words have been supplied in each of two columns. Those in Column B can be manufactured from their appropriate counterparts in Column A by inserting the letter "m" into their interiors.
Mathematical Modeling In Word Games: Apportionment Of Letter Tiles, Benjamin Dickman
Mathematical Modeling In Word Games: Apportionment Of Letter Tiles, Benjamin Dickman
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In mathematical modeling, the topic of apportionment provides powerful tools for the design of games. In particular, letter frequency based modeling can be used to compute appropriate letter distributions for a variety of word games. This paper will provide possible letter distributions for two different games: Scrabble and Boggle.
Poems- Part Ii, John Bannon
Equation Words, . Anil
Equation Words, . Anil
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In equation words, the letter values (A=1 to Z=26) can be punctuated into an equation without rearrangement as CAB (3=1+2) or ADD (1x4=4).
Search For A Minimal Panlist, . Anil
Search For A Minimal Panlist, . Anil
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A PANLIST is a list that contains the alphabet. It's like a pangram but counts number of items, not letters, and the goal is to find the list with the fewest.
An Alphabet Of Three-L Lamas, A. Ross Eckler
An Alphabet Of Three-L Lamas, A. Ross Eckler
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Most people are familiar wit Ogden Nash's doggerel connecting priests, beasts and three-alarm fires (an updated version below). In the November 2012 Word Ways, Solomon Golomb created five L-variants; here is a gallimaufry covering most of the alphabet:
Instructions To Authors
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The back cover and instructions to authors for this issue.
Convertible English, Richard Lederer
Convertible English, Richard Lederer
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Because modern English has shed most of the flexional endings that distinguish grammatical functions, many of our words possess the lively ability to rail-jump from one part of speech to another without any basic change in form. This happy facility, variously called conversion or function shift, endows our vocabulary with vitality, power and a prolific source of new words.
On The Definition Of A Vowel, A. Ross Eckler
On The Definition Of A Vowel, A. Ross Eckler
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On page kd of Opperlans! Taal -& letterkunde (Querido, 2003), Battus (the pen name of Hugo Brandt Corstius) presents a new way to define a vowel in the Dutch language. He originally presented this argument in the journal Spektator (1972). The following is an adaptation to the English language.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and quizzes in this issue.
Kickshaws, David Morice