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Symmetrical Letter Patterns, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

We take for granted the symmetrical letter patterns in palindromes - such as LEVEL and KAY AK. These involve all the letters in the world. But what about symmetrical letter patterns which occur in non-palindromic words, such as that of the letter N in ENCHANTMENT? In Making the Alphabet Dance, Ross Eckler gave the name 'cadence' to a set of identical letters spaced at equal intervals in a word - as in SYNGENESIOTRANSPLANTATION. Her, I add two constraints: the letters must be symmetrical within the word, as well as in relation to each other.

A Scrabble-Tile Poem, Michael Keith

Word Ways

Each tercet (three lines of iambic pentameter with ABA rhyme-scheme) in the poem below is formed from the set of 100 Scrabble tiles.

Annihilating An Anacyclic, Bill A. O'Connor

Word Ways

Like everything else (except space-time, sentience, and energy), letter-unit palindromes more than one word long are susceptible of being broken down into their component elements. This is accomplished in accordance with an invariable rule. Let us take as our analysandum A MAN A PLAN A CANAL PANAMA.

Mad Dashes, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

The other day I came across one of those loopy hyphenations that one occasionally finds in newspapers and magazines.

"Is That A Pun In Your Pocket, Or...?", Don Hauptman

Word Ways

To publicize my two wordplay books, which were published in the early 1960s, I prepared a talk that I delivered in such exotic places as Paris and Jersey City. (Really!)

The State Capitals Revisited, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

In my November 2001 Word Ways article, "Transposing the State Capitals", I explored the transposability of the names of the 50 state capitals. In that article, I offered transposals for 20 of the names of the state capitals, leaving readers to explore the remaining 30.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Word Repetition In Danish: "Jeg Mener 'Saeg' Ikke 'Skaeg'" (I Mean 'Funny' Not 'Beard'), Joshua Nash

Word Ways

A notable feature of language is the use of the same word to communicate different meanings. The first example that comes to mind in English is still. I am aware of at least three meanings (1) when something is motionless or at rest, (2) apparatus used to distill alcohol, and (3) the adverb still which means 'as yet' or 'up to this time' (for example, 'are you still there?').

Junk Palindrome Email, David B. Woodside

Word Ways

Email is pervasive and mostly worthless. People do try to spruce up their emails, which is part of the reason they're mostly worthless. I've done my part by incorporating wordplay into the emails I originate. In my email template I've placed a new field under the Subject field, labeled Palindrome-of-the-Week. Every Monday morning over coffee, I update the form with a new, original palindrome, and transfer the old palindrome to page two where it tops the list of the past two years' worth of Palindromes of the Week. Here is a sample of my output.

The Symbols Of The Chemical Elements, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

The names of the chemical elements have received a certain amount of attention in Word Ways over the years. The very first issue of Word Ways in February 1968 presented a quiz on 20 transposed element names. Later article have offered more extensive transpositions, transadditions, old names for some of the elements, elements in US placenames, and words composed solely of the element symbols, such as CoAgULaTe.

Permed Ends, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

The readers of Word Ways will be familiar with words whose first few letters are repeated, in the same order, at the end of the word. John Ferguson of Maryland called these Heads 'n Trails (Feb 1970, p 48). Example of the genre include ICELANDIC, TORMENTOR, OUTSHOUTS, and UNDERGROUNDER. By way of contrast, the first few letters might be repeated at the end of the word in reverse order, as in DETONATED and SELAGINELLALES (dfpf). The current investigation explores a third way in which the letters at the beginning of a word are repeated at the end of the word, …

Vowel Cascades, Vowel Movements And Di-Odes

Word Ways

In the February 1998 Word Ways, Richard Lederer used the term "vowel movements" to describe those rather musical sets of five words identical but for one letter which runs the gamut of the vowels. These were first introduced to Word Ways by Dmitri Borgmann in August 1968, who cited last lest list lost lust and asked readers to find a word set allowing the letter Y to be included as well. This was accomplished by Darryl Francis in August 1975 with math meth mith moth muth myth, to which several readers added other examples such as Dane dene dine done …

Nurses Run, John E. Connett

Word Ways

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Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Complementary Letters And Words, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

In "Complementary Letters" in the November 2001 Word Ways, Anil defines complementary letters as those whose ordinal places in the alphabet add to 27, e.g., A and Z, or L and O. He asks for words and phrases composed solely of such pairs, giving EVOLVE as an example, and asking whether LOVERISH is a word (I cannot find it). Such words must be even length, say 2n, and have n pairs of letters. My findings are presented below. As can be seen, such words are scarce. An asterisk denotes words that have this property in extremis: every one of the …

Bananagrams 16, 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 anagram. All of the bananagrams in this article are related to birds, and have been borrowed from Bill Webster's book One Wordy Guy.

Ma, Is A Fool As Aloof As I Am?, Bruce Young

Word Ways

A variant of the well-known Ma is a nun, as I am and Ma is a selfless as I am, this palindrome appears to be new.

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.

Volume 31, Number 1, Post Amerikan

The Post Amerikan (1972-2004)

No abstract provided.

Dit Independent, 1st.-29th Of February, 2002, Dit:Students Union

DIT Student Union

No abstract provided.

Newsette: Balitang Aklatan - February 2002, De La Salle University Libraries

Newsette: Balitang Aklatan - DLSU Libraries

What's Inside:

• Electronic Resources Utilization
• Resolutions of Actual Accessions/Holdings of the De La Salle University Library by Ana Maria B. Fresnido
• Dan Raralio by Willie Marbella
• Faculty and Co-Academic Personnel (CAPs) Activities
• Congratulations to Jocelyn Ladlad
• Exhibits
• Library Visitors
• Donations
• Recent Acquisitions

1. Archives Resources
2. Instructional Media Resources

• Book Acquisitions (February 2002)

Permutations Of United States Capitals, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

This article was prompted by Darryl Francis's article "Transposing the State Capital" in the November 2001 Word Ways. My apologies to Darryl for treading on his tail, but he lit upon a real challenge. I simply report what I found, but where Darryl has found other permutations (transpositions), I note those so that readers have one combined source. (He used sources other than those quoted below.) In addition, I include a number of plurals unearthed by Susan Thorpe.

The Oz Contradictionary: Part 4

Word Ways

This is an excerpt from a 98-page book privately published in 1999 by a retired Australian (Oz) biologist, up/dn, a dictionary and contradictionary of wordplay including anagrams, palindromes and charades (see February 2001 Word Ways for details).

A 15-By-15 Transposition Square, Luc Kumps

Word Ways

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Jailhouse Businesswoman Discourages Gregarious Darrelhousing, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

This brief article has its origins in the late 1960s, but has been inspired by more recent work in the last two or three years. Howard Bergerson, the then editor of Word Ways, wrote me in July 1969 asking if I could help fill any of the gaps in the list of words sent him by Ross Eckler, a list of words using the vowels AEIOU in the 120 different orders possible. Along with Dmitri Borgmann, I modestly filled a few gaps. The extended list eventually found its way into print as Ross Eckler's article "Unsociable Housemaid Discourages Facetious Behaviour" …

Creating A Pathway To Multicultural Education In Urban Communities: Real-Life Experiences For Preservice Teachers, Margaret A. Moore-Hart

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The classrooms within our nation are becoming rich tapestries, interwoven with people of diverse cultures and ethnic groups. In response to the evolving tapestries, many educators advocate the need to heighten preservice teachers' sensitivity to cultural issues so that they might apply this cultural knowledge within their teaching and learning. Using a reconstructionist approach, where preservice teachers become caring citizens who reach out to help culturally diverse children, is one way to address these issues. This manuscript describes an alternative tutoring program, where meaningful teaching and learning emerges within an urban community, and its' evaluation process. As a result of …

Reading Horizons Vol. 42, No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 42, issue 3.

Education And Policy In The New Latino Diaspora, Edmund T. Hamann, Stanton Wortham, Enrique G. Murillo Jr.

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Increasing numbers of Latinos (many immigrant, and some from elsewhere in the United States) are settling both temporarily and permanently in areas of the United States that have not traditionally been home to Latinos-for example, North Carolina, Maine, Georgia, Indiana, Arkansas, rural Illinois, and near resort communities in Colorado.' Enrique Murillo and Sofia Villenas have called this the New Latino Diaspora (Murillo and Vienas, 1997). Newcomer Latinos are confronted with novel challenges to their senses of identity, status, and community. Instead of arriving in settings, like the Southwest, where Latinos have lived for centuries, those in the New Latino Diaspora …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 91 [92], No. 27 (Feb. 1, 2002), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 91, but it is the 92nd volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.