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Deafdigest: Vol. 1, No. 27 February 2, 1997, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest 1997

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February 1997, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

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English As The World's Language, Eugene Chen Eoyang

文學與翻譯研究中心 論文叢刊 Centre for Literature and Translation Occasional Paper Series

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Washington For Word Watchers, Christopher Mcmanus

Word Ways

America's capital city is famous for many features, including its architecture and monuments, historical associations, and ongoing political intrigues. Washington D.C. has been described as "the only place where sound travels faster then light." Unknown to the general public, however, Washington has several claims to the logological hall of fame. The following paragraphs attempt to dispel this ignorance and reveal the true basis of Washington's unique spot in the word lovers' pantheon.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 30 Issue 1

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

Hey, Dog - Run (No Sweat!), Doug Nufer

Word Ways

The morning brought a problem that wouldn't go away. Although it sounded like an old putdown, we went to every thrift store in Billyville, Arkansas, looking for the right mixture of chintzy and snappy, so we could show off without thumbing our noses. When we got dressed, nobody was going to tell us "I wouldn't wear that to a dog fight" because we were off to the races.

New Word Palindromes, Will Shortz

Word Ways

Michael Donner's fine recent book on palindromes. I love Me, Vol. I. got me thinking about word palindromes and the paucity of examples cited in the standard collections. Besides the classic "All of one and one for all," the cry of the Three Musketeers, the following specimens are among the few that are generally cited in illustrating the genre.

Computer Jotto And Crash, Leonard Gordon

Word Ways

The August 1996 article "Playing Jotto Against a Computer" discusses the game of Jotto as played by a commercial computer program. Toward the end of the article, the authors suggest a "better" (minimax) value of play. I agree that their method is too difficult to implement, but I also believe that it is based on a weak premise and would be useless even if implemented. There can be no compleat strategy to Jotto. Guessing your opponent's word is a matter of bookkeeping plus a little luck. Since the computer is a better bookkeeper and knows its vocabulary better than a …

Julian Calendar Verse, Jan Anderson

Word Ways

Dateline Rome:

A Collection Of Nine-Squares, Richard Sabey

Word Ways

This article shows some of the results of a computer search for regular nine-squares. My earlier article on eight-squares reported on a search confined to solid all-lowercase eight-letter words. Standards had to be lowered for the nine-square search, and I included capitalised terms, hyphenated words and multiple-word phrases.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

A Bilingual Pun Is Twice The Fun, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

The all-time prize for transmitting the fullest message with the greatest compactness must go to Sir Charles James Napier. In 1843, Napier quelled an uprising in the Indian province of Sind and announced his triumph via telegram to his commanders in London. All he wrote was the one word Peccavi.

Palindromic Habitations, Andrea Cantrell

Word Ways

A street's a street, right? Only when you can ignore street signs and maps! I once had to criss-cross an entire city because I had failed to note if an address was on Canyon Lane or Canyon Terrace. Whether they are written out or abbreviated, it is important to pay careful attention to designations for roads, routes, avenues, places, lanes, squares, terraces, circles, heights, and plain old streets.

Fledge Ledge Edge, Jan Anderson

Word Ways

From the last issue's Ledge Edge we peered mostly at the missing: intentionally omitted words, vowels and syllables. Now we flap away from the "eschewed" and go espying the askew--odd assortments and arrangements of what is there. But as with my mother's elves, you have to start flying before you can see them. You didn't know about my mother's elves? They were a family secret, and my father never admitted to getting the note she wrote about them, but then maybe he didn't get it -- "Ed: odd, I am nuts. I flew. As I did, I saw elf! I …

Number Name Equations, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

123 can be expressed as a number name in one of two basic ways: ONE HUNDRED (AND) TWENTY THREE (the British include and, the Americans exclude and) or ONE TWO THREE. Dmitri Borgmann illustrated both in the November 1985 Colloquy. Assigning A=1, B=2, etc., he constructed TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE = 251, ONE FOUR SIX = 146 and TWO OUGHT OUGHT = 200. (He defended the last one by noting that ought is given as a variant of aught in the Collegiate dictionaries).

Top-Down Seems Best In Full Searches, Leonard Gordon

Word Ways

In "Designing a List of Word Squares" (August 1996), I showed that a word list intended for finding squares is improved by balancing the beginning and ending letter-frequencies of words. In "Bottom-Up Finds Some Squares Faster" (November 1996) I showed that under certain conditions the old formists' bottom-up strategy is superior to a top-down one.

Wright, Write 'Rite' Right, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

The May, August and November 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 a row. Some listeners incorrectly assumed that a stutter of sounds would qualify, and constructed sequences of homonyms instead of identically-spelled words. These logologically-interesting results are presented in the following (and final) article. (A few are questionable, relying perhaps on regional pronunciations.)

Absolute Difference Words, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

LONGEST WORDS

This article is a continuation of "Word Arithmetic" from the November Word Ways. Dmitri Borgmann is Beyond Language gave the four-letter absolute difference word FORM = 6 15 18 13 becomes 9 3 5 ICE. In "Difference Words" in the August 1971 Word Ways, Ross Eckler found in Webster's Collegiate 15 five-letter words such as SAFER and CHILD and three six-letter words from elsewhere: ELDEST, RETAIN, FRITOS. In "Difference Words Ride Again" in the August 1975 issue, Tom Pulliam added 10 more six-letter words from Webster's Unabridged, Second and Third editions.

Word Sums (No Carrying!), Frank Rubin

Word Ways

The simplest form of arithmetic that we all learn in grade school is addition. Each of us has spent countless hours over problems like 123 + 456 = 579.

Confessions Of A Psycho Killer, Mark Saltveit

Word Ways

Two detectives, Ed and Dave, were interrogating the prime suspect in a suburban murder spree. The accused, obviously deranged, answered only in present tense palindromes.

The Abc's Of Anglish, Peter Newby

Word Ways

Anglish is English of the logical neologist. It consists of sportmanteaux (the perfect qwaint is self-explanatory) and triviana (contrived trivia such as the palindrome ATAVADAVATA or the alphabetically progressive ABAVADAE). Pundigroans (contrived pundigroins or puns) are tolerated by only in small number. The acid test of an Anglish word is that it has the potential for assimilation into English just as the language of the Angles became a strand of the vocabulary which continues to develop as English. The following is a mere sample:

A Reedable-Deerable Alphabet, Nyr Indictor

Word Ways

Word pairs such as REJECTED-DEJECTER, RESERVED-DESERVER, and REDUCED-DEDUCER fall into the special class of anagrams which we may call "reed-deer pairs". One member of the pair begins with RE- and ends with ED-, while the other begins with DE- and ends with -ER. If the pair is DEDEERED and DEREEDED, we are left with an identical middle component. A person who isolates these middle components is both a DEDEERER and a DEREEDER. The middle ocmponent can be REREEDED and REDEERED (by a REREEDER and REDEERER) to form the original pair again.

Southern Fried Churches, Mary Christie Craig

Word Ways

My husband says that a Presbyterian, which he grew up as, in a cold, intellectual, well-read Baptist. On the other hand, a Baptist is a warm-hearted, ignorant Presbyterian. I can say this because I am one-- a Baptist, that is.

Kickshaws, Dave Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Numerical Palindromes: Part 2, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

"Numerical Palindromes: Part 1", by Susan Thorpe in the November 1996 Word Ways, dealt with what I described as numerical palindromes of order 2. It was her work that led to my own effort.

Bringing Home The Cryptographic Bacon, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

For the more than one hundred years various iconoclasts have speculated that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Some have searched for indications in the Shakespearean corpus that Bacon cryptographically hid some statement of his authorship.

Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

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

Reading Horizons Vol. 37, No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 37, issue 3.

A Kindergarten Writing Workshop: How Kindergarten Students Grow As Writers, Marjorie Hertz, Warren Heydenberk

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The emergence of process writing and the advent of whole language during the 1980's challenged the 50 year practice of focusing on reading before teaching writing to young children. Today, writing as well as reading is clearly of great interest from the earliest stages of literacy development.