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Book Review - Steven Kahan, Karen Farrell
Book Review - Steven Kahan, Karen Farrell
Word Ways
A book review of You Can Take My Word For It: Another Sixty Adventures in Logology For the Connoisseur by Steven Kahan (Esskay Publishing Company, Hollis Hills, New York 2012).
Exchanging Antonyms, Susan Thorpe
Exchanging Antonyms, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Antonyms have long been favourites of the readers of Word Ways, either as themselves (ODD-EVEN) or in disguise. In the latter case, they may be hidden in other word pairs such as in FATE - THINE, SHIN - SHOUT and BANDED -BORED where they occur at the beginnings, ends and in the middles of the word pairs respectively, the other letters remaining the same.
Funny Words 4, . Anil
Statue Of Limitations, Don Hauptman
Tripartitle Numerical Tautonyms, T.A. Hall
Tripartitle Numerical Tautonyms, T.A. Hall
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A numerical tautonym is traditionally defined as a word which can be divided into a sequence of at least two (adjacent) parts, where each part has both the same number of letters as well as the same alphabetic value sum (see David Morice, The Dictionary of Wordplay). For example, the four letters in the word THIS can be transposed into the corresponding numbers 20-8-9-19 (where A = 1, B = 2...Z = 26), which can be divided in the two parts 20-8 and 9-19. If the numbers in the first part are added together, then we obtain 28, which …
Punk Whiz 18, . Anil
Instructions To Authors
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Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.
Spanning The Globe With Scrabble Tiles, Mike Keith
Spanning The Globe With Scrabble Tiles, Mike Keith
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Here is a puzzle that's simple to state but not so easy to solve. Take a set of English Scabble tiles with its standard complement of 98 letters and two blanks (that can be used to stand for any letter). Use all 100 tiles to make a list of names of countries in the world, all different. For the acceptable list of country names use the current list of 192 member states of the United Nations.
More Quality Word Squares, Dmitri A. Borgmann
More Quality Word Squares, Dmitri A. Borgmann
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In a companion article, I presented the hundred 6x6 quality word squares. In this article, I extend these results to squares of the seventh, eighth and ninth order.
More Sliding-Letter Puzzles, Mike Keith
More Sliding-Letter Puzzles, Mike Keith
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Since writing "Vintage Plastic Sliding-Letter Puzzles" (WW, Nov. 2011, p.310) I have discovered some additional puzzles of ths kind manufactured by various companies during the 1960's and 1970's -and one of the recent vintage that is still in print. In this article I will describe these puzzles and discuss some of the logological problems suggested by them.
Look Back!, A. Ross Eckler
Look Back!, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
In February and August 1996, I wrote two Word Ways articles, "Queens's-Move Graphing" and "Queen's-Move Graphing Revisited". There has been no subsequent exploration of this topic in Word Ways by a computer-literate generation of logologists.
Tense Homophones, Susan Thorpe
Tense Homophones, Susan Thorpe
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Homophones are words which sound the same but which have different spellings and different meanings. BAWL and BALL are homophones. Here, I look at homophones in conjunction with past and present tenses.
In The Beginning, Jeremiah F. Farrell
Scrabble Patterns, Susan Thorpe
Scrabble Patterns, Susan Thorpe
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When the letters of the word SUPERMAN are assigned their Scrabble values, SUPERMAN becomes 1131.1311, a palindromic numerical arrangement. SUPE.RMAN is what I call a Scrabble Palindrome. Similarly, GAR.DEN is a Scrabble Tautonym (211.211), while RU.IN (11.11) is both a Scrabble Palindrome and a Scrable Tautonym. The Scrabble totals of the letters of the first and second halves of the word are equal, in the above cases 6.6, 4.4, and 2.2 respectively.
Punk Whiz 17, Anil .
Currency Events, Steve Kahan
Currency Events, Steve Kahan
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One of the songs from Cabaret reminds us that "money makes the world go 'round." The same can be said about the following quiz in which twenty seemingly-unrelated words are presented. Your assignment consists of replacing one letter in each word with another word and then anagrammatizing the resulting collection to reveal one of the world's currencies.
A Geography Quiz, T.A. Hall
A Geography Quiz, T.A. Hall
Word Ways
The questions below require not only a high degree of geographical prowess, but also knowledge of the logology of country names and names of languages. Even with the aid of an atlas most of these questions will prove to be quite challenging.
Comment On "Ladies' Diary Riddle - An Answer", Jim Puder
Comment On "Ladies' Diary Riddle - An Answer", Jim Puder
Word Ways
This note is a comment on Ronnie Kon's article "Ladies' Diary Riddle - An Answer" in the August Word Ways.
More Morse, Susan Thorpe
More Morse, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Mention the Morse Code to logologists and they immediately think of the number FIFTEEN, unique in being being self explanatory in Morse Code represented, as it is, by 15 dots and dashes.
Poet Tree Without Mist Aches, Scot Morris
Anagram Quiz 5, Anil .
Kickshaws, David Morice
Words That Never Stray, Richard Lederer
Words That Never Stray, Richard Lederer
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What do the following words have in common: bread, clams, dough, cabbage, lettuce, peanuts, and chicken feed? Each is a food that is metaphoric slang for "cash."
New Pair Isograms, Darryl Francis
New Pair Isograms, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Dmitri Borgmann introduced the concept of pair isograms in Language on Vacation. Pair isograms are words which use pairs of each different letter.
A New Year's Diet, Darryl Francis
A New Year's Diet, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
In Britain, at the start of each New Year, Many people make a resolution to go on a diet, in order to shed weight following excess eating and drinkin over the Christmas and New Year breaks. I'm not sure if the same applies in North America and elsewhere.
Sesquipedalian English, Richard Lederer
Sesquipedalian English, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
Early in my career as verbivore, I became fascinated with long words. My heart leapt up when I beheld the likes of inapprpriateness (17 letters) incomprehensibilty (19 letters), and the 22-letter counterrevolutionaries and deinstitutionalization.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 45, Number 1
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 45, Number 1
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.