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On The Green Vol. 27 No. 15 August 4, 1997, Gallaudet University

1991-2000

On the Green is an internal publication of Gallaudet College, which later became Gallaudet University. It notified employees of updates around the campus and in the broader community, including new construction and the establishment of new academic programs. Running until 2010, it was supplanted by various forms of online mass communications across multiple audiences.

Monitor Newsletter August 04, 1997, Bowling Green State University

Monitor

Official Publication of Bowling Green State University for Faculty and Staff

The Adjunct Model Of Content-Based Instruction: A Comparative Study In Higher Education In Oregon, Georgann Sue Percival

Dissertations and Theses

Content-based instruction (CBI) in all forms is widely used in ESL programs in higher education. The adjunct model of CBI, which links ESL classes to academic content courses, is regarded as an effective way to provide a transition between ESL and academic classes. Considering the growing numbers of limited English proficiency students entering colleges and universities for degree and vocational programs, the adjunct model provides an innovative means for ESL programs to serve these students. This comparative study investigates how adjunct model courses are planned, administered, and taught in eight colleges and universities in Oregon. Telephone surveys were used to …

Deafdigest: Vol. 2, No. 1 Section B August 3, 1997, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest 1997

No abstract provided.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 30 Issue 3

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

Robin's Gazette-Free Lipogram, Howard Richler

Word Ways

Lipograms are defined by Webster's Third New International Dictionary as "a writing not having a certain letter" but this definition is not satisfactory. In short passages it is not uncommon for some of the less common letters of the alphabet, such as X and Z, not to appear. Also, by common convention the letter or letters that do not appear are supposed to be common letters for the passage to be considered a lipogram.

Kickshaws, Dave Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Self-Descriptive Euler Magic Squares, Leonard Gordon

Word Ways

In the November 1996 Word Ways, I introduced the Euler square (almost known as a Graeco-Latin square), which is by its method of construction automatically magic. All rows and columns add up to a common sum since they merely consists of rearrangements of the same basic components.

Some New -Gry Words, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Previous issues of Word Ways have made much of words ending in the three letters -GRY. The subject has occurred several times over the years, but the fullest lists of -GRY words appeared in the November 1989 and February 1990 articles by George Scheetz and Murray Pearce, respectively. The exact number of -GRY words therein is unclear, but it's probably at least eighty. Uncertainty arises depending on whether "gry" and "Gry" are counted as one or two words, and so on.

Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

The Suet Alphabet, Nyr Indictor

Word Ways

Take the word WORD. Add an N, and you can make DROWN, add an S and you can make WORDS or SWORD. Add a J and you get... well, nothing, actually, because no combinations of the letters WORDJ make a word. Are there any words that can combine with a J to make a new word? Of course: SAW + J = JAWS; BAA + J = BAJA, etc. Are there any words that can combine with any of the 26 letters to make a new word? Such a word would be a universal recipient, like someone who has type …

Dual Cryptograms, M. Douglas Mcilroy

Word Ways

Newspaper cryptograms are usually easy to solve. They may get hard when they're made of words with unusual letter statistics. But no matter how hard they are, when you solve them, you can be sure you got the right answer. Cryptograms longer than about 30 letters (known to codebreakers as the 'unicity distance') just don't have two solutions. Or do they?

Geometrical Words: Part 1, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

The letters which make the three words ALL WEDDED and SERENENESS (or it could be NAGNAGGING!) occur in the ratios 2:1, 3:2:1 respectively. These words can be shown diagrammatically with like letters in the same rows.

The Stutter Game, Oren N. Dalton

Word Ways

Ross Eckler's article "Wright, Write, 'Rite' Right" in the February 1997 Word Ways reminded me of a game I and a friend, Scott Hancock, invented over rum and cokes about ten years ago. Inspiration was provided by a very pretty young woman. Helen Solis, a musician in the El Paso Symphony Orchestra along with Scott. During a break she asked if anyone had heard about the zookeeper Neumann who had nursed a pregnant wildebeest through birth: as a consequence, the NEW GNU KNEW NEUmann.

Varieties Of Balanced Words, Part 1, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

In making the Alphabet Dance (MAD), Ross Eckler describes a number of types of words designated partly or wholly by the word "balanced". I discovered this after I thought I had almost finished this article, and had to have a major re-think (rewrite!). Not only are there a number of varieties of the type of word I thought was called "balanced", but the terms seems to be applied to entirely different types of word, linked only by the use of the letter values A=1, B=2, etc.

Fledge Ledge Edge, Jan Anderson

Word Ways

This edition does it for our introduction of elfish wordplay forms, bringing the list to forty. Although there are far more, it's time for solo flight, the ledge edge is fledged, and the sky grows dark and flapping things headed south. (Mom?!) To help you through this sad departure, I've included several wordplays you can add to and work on until They come back.

Playing Hangman With A K.G.B. Senorita, Peter Newby

Word Ways

If you are one of the few who has never played the classic word guessing game of Hangman then may I suggest that you glance at either Pears Word Games or "The Mammoth Book of Word Games, both of which extol the virtues of attempting play at an adult level with 'difficult' words as well as providing the essential framework of action.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

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

A Mess Essay, Mama Mia!, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Scarfin; Fatback challenges me to half-alphabetize Frost's Stopping by Woods, first boasting victory and second conceding defeat. This is not difficult to do; I show the possibilities with a single stanza apiece.

An Investigation Of Selected Factors Related To Preparing Teachers To Work With Limited English Proficient Students In North Mississippi Public Schools, Connie L. Mcdonald

Faculty Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate selected factors associated with preparing elementary teachers in north Mississippi public schools to work with limited English proficient (LEP) students. The objectives of this research were (a) to determine the awareness of elementary teachers in north Mississippi public schools concerning the legal aspects of teaching limited English proficient students, (b) to ascertain if a need exists to prepare teachers in north Mississippi public schools to work with limited English proficient students, and (c) to identify types of instruction that teachers in north Mississippi public schools would participate in when preparing to work …

Life In Captivity: Its Lack Of Opportunities For Variable Behaviour, Françoise Wemelsfelder

Zoos and Aquariums Collection

No abstract provided.

Upperlands In The Netherlands, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

I first heard of Dutch logology in the summer of 1979, when Martin Gardner forwarded to me an article on Dutch palindrome that was sent to him by Hugo Brandt Corstius, then a professor of linguistics at the Institute of General Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. (This article, "Nepapen", was translated by George Levenbach and appeared in the November 1979 Word Ways.)

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Information From The Highest Quarters, Thomas L. Bernard

Word Ways

We would think it rather odd if someone said "Follow me, please, I'll show you to your thirds". It would sound perfectly normal, however, if the statement was "Follow me, please, I'll show you to your quarters".

Don't Waste Words: Recycle!, Jan Anderson

Word Ways

Having lived in both New York and a rural state where the residents get up in arms whenever some local businessman or landowner applies for a landfill permit that will accept New York's waste, I'm sensitive to the dumb debate.

It's A Jumble Out There, James Puder

Word Ways

Dear Anabelle Van Landers:

These questions may be a bit out of the ordinary for your column, but I have never known you to fail a reader, and I am sure that you won't let me down. I am, frankly, nearing my wit's end, and you are my last hope.

Polygonal, Pyramidal, Prismatic Words, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

By considering the assignment of letters to points on plane figures and solids, this article provides a general classifications of words which includes, among other categories, words already known as isograms and pyramid words.

Equine Equivocations, Brooks H. Rohde

Word Ways

Editor's Note: In the late 1970s and early 1980s Rohde wrote hundreds of logological poems about horses, mostly palindromes and charades. In the following, the first half of the palindrome presents one point of view and the second its complement. The final poem is an example of Jusuitical verse (equivoque), common a century or more ago.

Towards Computers Of Generation Omega - Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, Granularity, And Acausal Processes: A Brief Survey, Misha Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Semiotics (ISAS'97), National Institute of Standards and Technology Publ., Gaithersburg, MD, 1997, pp. 383-388.

Nowadays, we are using mainly computer of fourth generation, and we are designing fifth-generation computers. It is reasonable to ask: what is the perspective? What will the computers of generation omega look like?

--As the speed of data processing increases, we face a natural limitation of causality, according to which the speed of all processes is limited by the speed of light.

--Lately, a new area of acausal (causality violating) processes has entered mainstream physics.

This …

The Old English Prose Homily On The Phoenix, Patricia Relf Hanavan

Masters Theses

The Old English prose homily on the phoenix, which is found in two manuscripts, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 198 (eleventh century), and London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian D. xiv (twelfth century), is the subject of this thesis. The study addresses the homily's imagery, sources, and context.

Comparison of the homily with two of its closest analogues, the Old English verse Phoenix and its source, the Latin De ave phoenice attributed to Lactantius, reveals that, in spite of similarities, the homily was based upon neither; its source likely was an overtly Christian Latin text unknown to us today. In …