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Asteroid Prediction Tricks, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

Someone chooses a letter from the word ASTEROID, and your task is to ask questions until you can identify the chooser's letter. If the questions are of the form "which of the following tow words contains your letter?", two are sufficient for identification:

Fledge Ledge Edge, Jan Anderson

Word Ways

As a new contributor I have to admit I got here by turnip truck (three decades of serious writing). But then I saw Word Ways, and the tail gate opened. Also the floor gate. With such endless wordplay possibilities, can even the veterans remember all the moves? And new comers certainly need an introduction.

Graphing The Proverbs, Leonard Gordon

Word Ways

As my recent contributions to Word Ways show, I enjoy graphing. But, one day I got bored with long words which I would never use in writing or speech. Somehow, I thought of graphing proverbs. Here is a sample.

Pop Culture In Ny Times Crosswords, Faith Eckler

Word Ways

The following material, extracted from a National Puzzlers' League round-robin letter, should be of interest to Word Ways readers.

Tautonyms In Biology (Part 2), Samuel S. Long

Word Ways

Mabuya mabuya (common mabuya lizard) Gk: animal's name

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Transplants, Peter Newby

Word Ways

It was contemplating the logological consequences of the term 'heart transplant' that gave me the ideas for a whole new form of wordplay. I have already produced three distinctly different objectives all based upon the same technique and, doubtless, others can be devised.

Noun-Sense, Stephen Sniderman

Word Ways

Normally, to change an adjective into a noun, we add NESS (cute, cuteness) or ITY (popular, popularity). But there are many exceptions, some of which seem to follow a pattern and some of which seem to be unique.

The Chainsaw Critic, Jan Anderson

Word Ways

AUDEN densest establishment entrant, antiquated tedium

Letter-Perfect Word Games, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

They're ba-a-a-a-ck... the readers or listeners who write or e-mail or call or stop me on the street to ask "There are three words in the English Language that end in g-r-y. Two of them are angry and hungry. What is the third?

What's That You Say?, Leonard R. N. Ashley

Word Ways

You will very likely recognize most of the words asked for in this quiz--once you get them. But the clues are rather difficult and involve etymologies and other connections that are very tangled. Readers said "Harder words, please!" Try these.

T-T-T-That's All, Folks!, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

The May 1996 Word Ways described the results of a National Public Radio competition of December 1995 in which listeners were challenged to write grammatical and understandable sentences containing the same word four or more times in succession. Some of the most interesting entries were based on repeated thats; this article summarizes them. Four thats is relatively easy, as achieved by the following strategy:

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

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

Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

Of Barbed Wire And Red Roses--Ii: Suite For Large Brass Ensemble And Timpani (Parts), Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Opus 1b: 14 parts (69 pages) ; Parts for Timpani; Trumpet I - IV; Horn I - IV; t-Trombone I - III; b-Trombone; Tuba

The suite Of Barbed Wire and Red Roses—II celebrates the triumph of understanding over hatred, of peace over war. The thirteen brass and timpani are grouped in choirs by movement:

1. Fughetta for Timpani
2. Fanfare for Four Trumpets in B Flat, Three Tenor Trombones and Bass Trombone
3. Interlude for Four Horns in F and Tuba
4. "Of Barbed Wire and Red Roses" for Thirteen Brass and Timpani

Of Barbed Wire And Red Roses--Ii: Suite For Large Brass Ensemble And Timpani (Full Score), Emmanuel M. Dubois

Emmanuel Dubois Compositions

Opus 1b: 1 score (vi + 37 pages) ; includes acknowledgements, foreword

The suite Of Barbed Wire and Red Roses—II celebrates the triumph of understanding over hatred, of peace over war. The thirteen brass and timpani are grouped in choirs by movement:

1. Fughetta for Timpani
2. Fanfare for Four Trumpets in B Flat, Three Tenor Trombones and Bass Trombone
3. Interlude for Four Horns in F and Tuba
4. "Of Barbed Wire and Red Roses" for Thirteen Brass and Timpani

The Update - November 1996, Nova Southeastern University

The Update

No abstract provided.

Members In Internal Audit, November 1996, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Edison Communicator Volume Two; Number Four, Edison Community College

Edison Communicator

Edison Communicator: A Publication for the Faculty, Staff and Friends of Edison Community College.

Ayres V. Jacobs & Crumplar Pa

1996 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

Bamidele V. Ins

1996 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

1996 Ncaa Division Iii Women's Volleyball Championship Guide, Volleyball, State University Of New York College At Cortland

Volleyball Documents

The 1996 NCAA Division III Women's Volleyball Championship, the New York Regional, took place at SUNY Cortland on November 15-16, 1996. The championship included SUNY Cortland, Ithaca, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Geneseo.

The Courier, Volume 30, Issue 5, November 1, 1996, The Courier, College Of Dupage

The Courier

Stories:

Leak Forces Students From Classes

Public Safety Uses Cameras For Parking Lot Protection

LRC And SCC Different Computing Worlds

Outcomes Assessment Focus Of Teacher Inservice Day

Cafe Opens In SRC North

College Helps To Celebrate Escoffier's Birthday

Older Adult Institute Prepares For 10th Anniversary Celebration

Four Bitchin’ Babes To Perform Evening Of Laughs

‘The Pirates Of Penzance’ To Be Staged

People:

Kathy Szeszol

Greg Kihn

Ruth Anne Muir

Nathaniel Bowman

Be Opened, November 1996

Be Opened

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Cebu City, Philippines

Be Opened Finding Aid

Kentucky Warbler (Vol. 72, No. 4), Kentucky Library Research Collections

The Kentucky Warbler

No abstract provided.

Contact, November-December 1996

Contact

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Hartford, CT

Contact Finding Aid

Academic Science News & Reviews November 1996, Stony Brook University. Academic Science News & Reviews.

Academic Science News & Reviews

No abstract provided.

I.11 | Uup Insight, United University Professions

UUP Insight

Newsletter of the Stony Brook Chapter of the United University Professions | v. : ill. ; 28 cm (original analog pub.),UUP Professional Perspective | Insight | UUP Newsletter | UUP/SB Newsletter

Doctors, Ethics, And Managed Care, John Collins Harvey

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Ua68/18/1 Women's Studies Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1, Wku Women's Studies & Support Program

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by the Women's Studies & Support Program for students and alumni.