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Presidents, Pairs And Primes, Monte J. Zerger

Word Ways

Which of the two major presidential candidates will be elected on the first "2's Day" in November of the year 2000, and take office on the 20th day of the following year? Linguistically and numerically, Bush seems to have a definite edge. His last name begins with B, the second letter of the alphabet, and if elected he would be the second George Bush to serve.

Magic Square Magic, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

I had heard the rumors for years. Somewhere, deep in the back woods, there existed an enclave of mentalists with some clever new prediction tricks. In fact, I finally learned that the group, the mysterious MOUSTERIAN cult, is led by my good friend Edith, known to readers of Word Ways as Scrubwoman Edith. Her last appearance of these pages was in the August 1999 issue in "Edith Plays Word Treblecross".

Palindromania: Do Nod, Roland A. Duerksen

Word Ways

In this companion article to "Palindromania: Don't Nod", the reader is invited to complete the following palindromic sentences (with all vowels except Y identified). Each palindrome is clued by a rhymed couplet, with capitalized words are labeled with an asterisk. Answers can be found in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue.

New Palindromes, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

If Malayalam is typed backwards, malayala M, it is different from Malayalam. When the word is spoken, the first letter 'a' is short but the final 'a' is long, which means that it also sounds different backwards. Because visual and phonetic discrepancies are rife amongst the words we unhesitatingly accept as palindromes, is there any question why we should not accept dowod (Polish: proof), rugur (Icelandic: rye), or ucuru (Turkish: flying: volatile) as palindromes? Unlike these three words, the palindromes below have no stress or sound accents, and all but the 2nd and 4th are new to Word Ways.

Ed's Palindromic Trickery, John E. Connett

Word Ways

The Nov 1998 Kickshaws presented two palindromic poems starting and ending with ED I HIDE, plus one consisting of ED, I HID A...-AD, I HIDE. In this article we analyze their structure in detail, and also exhibit a number of palindromic variations that Ed can exploit.

Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

An Anecdote: Agile Acrobat Avoids Accident, Lionel R. Simard

Word Ways

Alma Anderson, an avid American amateur acrobat, asked admiringly, "Are all Asians as agile as Anita Akihito?"

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Room For Expansion, Enoch Haga

Word Ways

How many words are possible using the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet? I've made some speculative calculations and I believe provide a preliminary answer to this question. Since languages other than English make use of the Roman alphabet, and probably more Romanization will occur in the future, my numerical estimates include their usage. But I will focus on English, and assume that English alone may look to the entire pool of possible words as needed for future expansion.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

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

Aeinst +1 Words, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

HEALTH WARNING: This article could damage your Scrabble vocabulary.

Borrowed English, Dan Tilque

Word Ways

English is known as a great borrowing language. Among words in the dictionary, roughly 25 percent are native English words, the rest derived from other languages. But how many languages has English borrowed from? The way to find out is to compile a list of words derived from as many different languages as possible.

Kickshaws, Dave Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

120 Supervocalic Permutations, Eric W. Chaikin

Word Ways

Long shrift has been given recently to AEIOU words. In the past, AEIOU words or phrases have included names and places as well. Perusing the neighborhood, one might spy a liquor market, customer parking, a public storage facility, or perhaps an ad for Austin Powers. To generalize the concept I introduce the term supervocalic to

The Alphabet Ruler, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Assigning each letter its positional value in the alphabet (A=1, B=2, etc.), adding the 26 values (351) and dividing by the number of letters in the alphabet (26) gives the Average Letter Value (ALV) of the alphabet (13.5). Similarly, dividing the total letter value of a word by the number of letters in the word gives the ALV of that word.

A Life Of Paradox: Thomas Merton's Asian Trajectory, Gary Houchens

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Anthony Padovano called Thomas Merton a "symbol of the century" inasmuch as he embodied many of the changes facing Christianity during the often tumultuous and violent, but increasingly pluralistic, middle decades of the twentieth century. Merton engaged in a "total ecumenism," in which he intensely studied other religious traditions, most notably the religions of Asia, in order to better understand his own Roman Catholic tradition. This paper will trace the trajectory of Asian ideas and experiences throughout Merton's life and analyze how these experiences transformed him from a narrow-minded monk to an ecumenical mystic. An ever-present subject emerges: the coincidence …

Transformations: A Folkloric Exploration Of The Musical Comedy Into The Woods By Stephen Sondheim And James Lapine, Cara Hoglund

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the use of folktales in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 1987 award-winning musical Into the Woods. In doing so, I hope to accomplish several directives. First, to enrich understanding of the musical for all audience members, especially those with a folklore or theater background. I feel that understanding the underlying goals and standards that Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine used in creating the musical will provide a much deeper understanding of the genius of their work. I also aim clearly elucidate the merger of folk narrative and popular musical theater form in …

Isaiah's Oracle Against Philistia: An Exegetical And Historical Study Of Isaiah 14:28-32, Paul Wenz

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

Isaiah's oracle against Philistia in 14:28-32 presents some unique problems to the exegete. Itis the only oracle with a chronological marker in Isaiah, i.e., it is dated at King Ahaz's death (v. 28), which raises questions of authorship for some. Chapter 1 introduces Isaiah's use of “Oracles against the Nations" (OAN) and specifically how Isaiah's oracle against Philistia is a good example of the genre, yet points out some of its unique characteristics. The translation of the pericope, with its exegetical details, is treated in chapter 2. Chapter 3 gives comments on the oracle and its setting, which is Isaiah's …

Korean Students In U.S. Law Schools And Foreign Students At Seoul National University Law School, Sang-Hyun Song

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

"Wild Men" And Dissenting Voices: Narrative Disruption In Little House On The Prairie, Donna M. Campbell

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Long considered to be a work celebrating traditional pioneer values, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, has in recent years come under increasing attack for its stereotypic racial representations and attitudes. In one notable instance, novelist Michael Dorris describes trying to read the novels to his daughters and stopping because of the unfavorable depictions of Native American characters and Ma's "unreconstructed" bigotry. Dorris and others present a compelling argument about the potential negative effects of such representations, yet to dismiss the work as though Wilder's vision of other races represents a …

Notes And News

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Contents:

Frederick C. Luebke Award 2000
California Indian Conference
Internships at the American Folklife Center
Intertribal Bison Cooperative Conference 2000

Little Squatter On The Osage Diminished Reserve: Reading Laura Ingalls Wilder's Kansas Indians, Frances W. Kaye

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Laura Ingalls Wilder was a person of her time and place. She fictionalized her memories to give what she honestly believed was the truest possible account-true in deeply human ways as well as in accurate details-of one family's settlement history on the Great Plains frontier. I have never really liked her work. While my sister read all the Little House books, I read ... Zane Grey. That I do not share Wilder's values and point of view is no argument against the books-I do not share Zane Grey's values and point of view, either. But Zane Grey is not held …

Poems As Mnemonic Devices To Aid Grammar Recall, Carolin A. Metzger

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

This study was implemented to explore the extent to which students' performance on grammar editing exams might be affected by exposure to poems used as mnemonic devices intended to aid recall of grammar rules. The poems were used as mnemonic tools to assist subjects memory of specific grammar points. The place of grammar in writing instruction, the use of mnemonics, and the use of rhyme and rhythm are reviewed. The subjects for this study came from developmental level classes at the university level and from advanced level English as Second Language classes. The results emphasize the need for teacher-student interaction …

Vernacular Letterforms: An Expression Of Cultural And Social Values, Georgiana Leite

Theses

This thesis investigates similar problem-solving processes used in the fields of graphic design and engineering, revealing an underlying relationship between the two disciplines. It shows the principles these two disciplines share and how they employ a common creative process. By comparing these two vastly different disciplines, an understanding of the methodology of thought is constructed.

May- June 2000, University Of North Dakota Alumni Association

ALL: UND Alumni Review Master List

May- June 2000 issue of "The University of North Dakota Alumni Review." 40 pages

Volume 83, Number 1

Business Alumni And Business Faculty Perceptions Of Graduates' Finance Capabilities: A Study Of Selected Small Private Colleges In The Upper Midwest, Dennis I. Bolen

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine what within the introduction to finance curriculum has prepared undergraduate business major alumni to succeed at their degreegranting institutions and later to meet the demands of the business world. This included the importance of topical coverage and skills, as perceived by both undergraduate business major alumni and corresponding school finance instructors. Specifically, the preparation afforded by the introduction to finance course was assessed within business departments of selected Upper Midwest institutions of higher learning. Findings of the study were compared to organizational pronouncements of the Finance Management Association International, and the American …

Phonological Awareness Of Stress And Syllable, Joshua N. Long

Theses and Dissertations

For a number of years, researches have studied children's intuitive knowledge of sounds and syllables because of contributions of these linguistic units to language learning, and more specifically literacy. Children learn to interpret streams of speech through the development of segmentation skills. This study investigated the abilites of preschool and school age children through measurement of their performance on two-syllable, three-syllable, and four-syllable pseudo-word forms with varying stress patterns. The present study examined the participants' ability to identify targeted syllables and targeted stressed elements. That is, in one group (syllable group), participants were required to identify the location of a …

Vytis, Volume 86, Issue 5 (May 2000), Knights Of Lithuania

Vytis: The Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania

Newsletter of the Knights of Lithuania national organization (United States); digitized and made available with the permission of the organization. Content may be protected by copyright.

Carl Schmitt's Antiliberalism: Its Theoretical And Historical Sources And Its Philosophical And Political Meaning, Carlo Galli

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Teacher Self-Disclosure From The Perspective Of International Students In The Communication Classroom: A Case Study, Darlene J. Geiger

Dissertations and Theses

Self-disclosure as an interpersonal concept was developed almost 40 years ago with the work of Sydney Jourard. Although the original definition included nonverbal forms of communication, the concept has evolved since then into an 'intentional act of sending verbal information about one's self. In contrast, the present study broadened the definition for self-disclosure to include nonverbal behaviors and took a new methodological approach to understanding the effects that self-disclosure can have for international students in the communication classroom context.

Teacher self-disclosure from the perspectives of international students is an unexplored area and therefore a phenomenological, qualitative case study approach utilizing …