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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, November 3, 2002, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2002

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Deafdigest: Blue Edition, November 03, 2002, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2002

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St. John Gabriel Perboyre: A Mis En Scene, Joseph Loftus C.M.

Vincentiana

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The Cresset (Vol. Lxvi, No. 2, Christmas), Valparaiso University

The Cresset (archived issues)

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U.S. Latino/A Theology And Asian Theology: Partners In The Postmodern Age?, Peter C. Phan

Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology

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Propaedeutic To The Critique Of The Study Of U.S. Hispanic Religion: A Polemic Against Intellectual Assimilation, Manuel J. Mejido

Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology

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A Clear Statement Of Recovery: Applying The Ncta Doctrine In The Determination Of Whether Oversight Costs Are Recoverable Under Cercla. U.S. V. Dico , Jason L. Cordes

Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law

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Vowel-Consonant Patterns (Part 1), Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

In Vowel-Consonant Patterns (Word Ways 77221), Philip Cohen presented a list of words based on 125 of the possible 128 (2^7) 7-letter vowel-consonant (V-C) patterns. Somewhat belatedly, this has inspired me to undertake similar exercises for 8-letter words and 9-letter words. As Cohen's article appeared more than 25 years ago, before most of us were acquainted with Word Ways, I have also taken the liberty of repeating his 7-letter exercise, using different words wherever appropriate. Part 1 considers 7- and 8-letter words; Part 2 considers 9-letter words, and also analyses the patterns with regard to the number of words they …

Moose Laurels, Part 2: Story Spoonerisms, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

In our previous episode (Word Ways, August 2002), we examined a new crop of transposition puns accompanied by one-line definitions. Now let us turn to a related genre: the joke that contains a more detailed setup and a spoonerized punchline.

The Alphabet Cube And Beyond, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Two-letter words can be plotted as points on a two-dimensional plane. The first letter of a two-letter word is plotted against the x-axis, and the second letter is plotted against the y-axis. Along the x-axis, x=1 is equivalent to the letter A, x=2 is equivalent to the letter B, and so on, with x=26 being equivalent to the letter Z. Similarly, plot the second letter of a word on the y-axis, with y=1 equivalent to A, y=2 equivalent to B, etc. So, for example, take the two-letter word HE. The H corresponds to x=8 and the E corresponds to y=5. …

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 35 Issue 4

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

New Record Pangrammatic Windows, Mike Keith

Word Ways

Most readers of Word Ways are familiar with the "accidental pangram" problem, which is to find a short 'window' (block of contiguous text) in published text that, but accident rather than deliberation, contains each letter of the alphabet at least once. The record for the shortest known accidental pangram in English has stood for 95 years, as it was reported in print by A. Cyril Pearson in The Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book, published in 1907. It is from The Beth Book, a popular 1897 novel by Sarah Grand (republished as recently as 1980 by The Dial Press).

The Tebahpla, David Morice

Word Ways

Awake! As actors afterward amass,

An artful agent almost acts an ass

And asks aloud, "Are acting arts about

An artist's act? An actor's art?" Alas!

Some Superior Ten-Squares, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

The following squares are, in my view, the approximate equal, or superior of, the square published as My First Ten-Square (Word Ways August 2002). I invite readers to form their own views as to the relative merits of the three squares below and the August one. I give my own views inverted at the end of the article.

Lattice Play, Christopher Mcmanus

Word Ways

At first glance, lattices seem to offer few attractions as a wordplay form. They are far more abundant than word squares and easier to construct. Although long neglected, lattices yield a previously unknown but elegant pangrammatic set, one involving only 33 total letters and words from a single dictionary.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

Sesquipedalianists, Seek No Longer, Peter Delin

Word Ways

Most actual and incipient logologists seem to pass through of being fascinated by long words, and raising such questions as what is the longest word in English or American. One reason for the eventual passing of this phase, for most of us, is the eventual realization of the fact that, as it is by no means simple to decide what counts as a word.

Unusual New Zealand Place Names, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

New Zealand is a small Pacific country about the size of Colorado. A lot of places here bear their original Maori names, the most famous being the 85-letter TAUMATAWHAKATANGIHANGAKOAUAUOTAMATEATURIPUKAKAPIKIMAUNGAHORONUKUPOKAIWHENUAKITANATAHU, a hill about 40 miles south of where I live in Hawke's Bay province.

Word Stools

Word Ways

This is the third in a series exploring meaningful word ladders, the first two appearing in the August issue. "Word Stools" is my nickname for one-step word ladders-pairs of related words differing by a single letter, e.g. indolence & insolence, the primary problems confronting teachers. They've been noted often and are the basis of amusing typos plus a true abundance of popular alliterative or rhyming phrases like tick-tock, hip hop, fat cat, brain drain, teenie weenie, nappy-happy. Like these the following pairs crash in all but one position, "high crash". A couple are charades. With one heartfelt exception, I've limited …

Word Girders, Chris Cole

Word Ways

On p 160 of Language on Vacation (1965), Dmitri Borgmann issued the challenge "For the logophile who feels the urge to explore virgin territory, word girders are just the thing." A word girder is constructed by exchanging letters between a pair of words to form another pair of words. Borgmann lists three 5-letter examples.

Ladder Words, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

PERVERSER, HASHISHES and INSINKING are examples of what I call Ladder Words. Each word is a self-contained ladder (PER-VER-SET, HAS-HIS-HES, INS-INK-ING) in which each trigram (3-letter group) differs from its trigram neighbour(s) by a single letter, just as do the words in a word ladder. All the examples of ladder words below are either solid words or hyphenated words. Hyphens are not shown. All 3 trigramism must be different, so that GONGOLGON (in New South Wales) is not acceptable. A few words of this genre appeared in Colloquy 98116 and these are identified in the lists below by an asterisk*. …

Bananagrams 19, Edmund Conti

Word Ways

Bananagrams--anagrams to drive you bananas--consist of rhymed couplets, each one containing a pair of anagrams to be solved. One of the rhyming words will always be an anagram, and the couplet itself will offer clues to help solve the anagrams.

Consonant Cascades

Word Ways

Concluding a series on meaningful word ladders, here's another special type of ladder. Consonant cascades (CCs) are meaningful cases of "consonant movements" (CMs) in which all substitutions occur at the same position. They are modeled on vowel cascades and vowel movements (02-53), so ideally the ladders are alphabetical or anti-alphabetical. The Word Stool bake cake, if a Japanese fish cake, can expand to Bake cake (fake hake?), make sake.

A Nine-Square With A Non-Palindrome Diagonal, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

As explained in my article Nine-Square with Palindromic Diagonal (Word Ways May 2002), the SW-NE diagonal must be palindromic. Such squares are rare (say, as common as ten-squares). Distinctly rarer is a nine-square such as follows, which has a frequency I estimate to be around 1 in 300,000 nine-squares.

Two New Pangrammic Challenges, Mark Isaak

Word Ways

The alphabet has 26 letters, but writing uses more than 26 symbols. If I want to display all the elements of a typeface, for example, "the quick brown fox..." does not suffice. My first challenge is to create a pangram which, following accepted conventions of capitalization, displays all 26 letters in both upper and lower case.

One + Twelve = Two + Eleven

Word Ways

1. Eleven + two = twelve + one is an amazing and rightly famous anagram. I wish to add to its mystique by revealing some more deep coincidences, based on rearranging the terms to

2. two + eleven = one + twelve, or, as I prefer.

3. one + twelve = two + eleven (a word reversal of equation #1).

These two are also anagrams and palindromes in numerical form (shown for #3): 1+12=2+11. (The palindrome requires altered punctuation, as is conventional in verbal palindromes.) More surprisingly, they're both anagrams and palindromes in Roman numerals as well: I+XII=II+XI.

Kickshaws

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Shiftgrams Revisited, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

The concept of word-shifts was introduced in Dmitri Borgmann's Language on Vacation (1965). Consider the word COLD for instance. Shifting each of the letters three spaces forward in the alphabet, COLD becomes FROG: and shifting the letters of CHEER seven spaces forward produces JOLLY. Dmitri offered many other examples in his book.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

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