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Murray Ledger And Times, February 6, 2003, Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

The Missouri Miner, February 6, 2003

The Missouri Miner Newspaper

No abstract provided.

The Comment, February 6, 2003, Bridgewater State College

The Comment

No abstract provided.

The Daily Egyptian, February 05, 2003, Daily Egyptian Staff

February 2003

No abstract provided.

Process Not Followed (Criteria For Tenure And Promotion), Marc D. Cyr

Faculty Senate: Index

No abstract provided.

Current, February 03, 2003, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

Current (2000s)

No abstract provided.

‘One Is Not Born A Latina, One Becomes One’: The Construction Of The Latina Feminist Theologian In Latino/A Theology, Michelle A. González

Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology

The author argues that feminism and feminist theory are not taken seriously enough as critical resources in Latina/o theology. She interrogates the politics of identity as practiced &mdash overtly and covertly by Latinx theologian &mdash and how that identity discourse refracts the production of theology in the academy. She calls for greater collaboration among feminist theologians, as well as women who do not consciously use a feminist hermeneutic. Finally, she urges Latino theology to train a hermeneutics of suspicion on every essentialism, particularly figurings of "the people," as they often appear in Latinx theologies.

Writing A Web Library User's Guide To The East Asian Languages Collection Of The University Of California-Davis, Mei-Yun (Annie) Lin

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

New German Triple-Letter Words, Jim Puder

Word Ways

A supplement to The Pocket Oxford-Duden German Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 1997) reports that the governments of Germany, Austria and Switzerland agreed in 1996 to reform the spellings changes resulted in the creation of over one hundred new triple-letter words.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 36 Issue 1

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

Peppertree: The Logological Holy Grail, Dave Morice

Word Ways

Some words are interesting because they have a unique, outstanding property. Howard Bergerson has noted that TWENTY-NINE is spelled with letters made of lines only -- 29 of them. (The real magic of this simple fact can be experienced by counting each line along the way.) Dave Morice once observed that AMBIDEXTROUS ("capable of using both hands with equal ease") is alphabetically ambidextrous: its left half, AMBIDE, uses letters from the left half of the alphabet, and its right half, XTROUS, uses letter from the right half of the alphabet. If the letters of OUI (French YES) are each shifted …

The Debunking Of Torpenhow Hill, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

In his book, Beyond Language (1967), Dmitri Borgmann posed a problem and offered a solution that have both gone unremarked until now, over 35 years later. For those who don't have the book, here is part of Problem 35. Etymological Eccentricities.

Pangram Competition, William Shortz

Word Ways

If typists ever want a replacement for the old chestnut "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog", do I have some suggestions! Below are my favorite sentences submitted by National Public Radio "Weekend Edition Sunday" listeners in a creative pangram competition on September 22 and 29, 2002. Each sentence uses all 26 letters of the alphabet at least once (that's a pangram) and contains the name of a famous person (the extra requirement of the contest). Out of thousands of entries, I selected the following on the basis of brevity, meaning, naturalness of syntax, and (sometimes) their ability …

Quarter Ten-Squares, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

A tautonym was originally the same word repeated for genus and species, though in Word Ways it is used of a single word consisting of two identical halves, such as Wallawalla, a North American Indian people (OED). I take it that it is not necessary for the two halves to have the same meaning, is for the semantic split to occur also in the middle. Suppose we start a 10-letter word square with a tautonym ABCDEABCDE. The second row must begin with B, say BFGHI (we will just use the first half for brevity), the third with CG, eg CGJKL, …

Ten-Square With Place Names, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

Although the words in the following square only score 36 out of 50 on my crude scale of merit (because of proper names and spaces), the square as a whole deserves better, as all names are places, and from the same source.

Sighted Rhymes, Sank Same, Edmund Conti

Word Ways

Sight rhymes are rhymes that look like rhymes. They have the same ending letters that you would find in rhyming words but, alas, the combinations of letters are pronounced differently. Such is the nature of the English language.

Roots And Branches: A Simplified Diagram, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

As he clearly implies, the full picture of the roots and branches of a word can be an "intertwining tangle". A particular word may be reached via several different transdeletions (or transadditions), and the resulting diagram can be confusing, with many lines crossing each other, and there being no clear indication of the structure.

Bb And The Rebusgram

Word Ways

BB is a rebus. In fact it's a rebus of rebus: "Re-B us". In this article I mainly explore the one-letter rebus, its opposite the "antirebus" and their use in higher dimensional constructions I call "rebusgrams". I close with a quiz-full of multiple-letter rebus puzzles.

Verse, Cursed: Double Dactylic Sacrilege, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

As all card-carrying recreational linguists know, the double dactyl is a serious light verse form comprising two quatrains, with each line -- except the final, rhyming lines of the quatrains -- consisting of two dactylic feet, and in which the first line must be a nonsense reduplication; the second line a proper name; and the penultimate or antepenultimate line one double dactylic word. For complete rules, origins, scholarship and numerous cerebral examples

Vowel-Consonant Patterns (Part 2), Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Part 1 of the article listed V-C patterns in 7- and 8-letter words. Part 2 repeats the exercise for 9-letter words and then analyses the 7-, 8-, and 9-letter V-C patterns.

More Palindromes, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

The following palindromes are additional to those listed in Palindromicon II. Although I have removed some candidates, those below are accompanied by sufficient information that the reader can accept or reject each as desired. My own criteria for acceptance differ from those of the Palindromicon, so this list is not precisely an addition to that work. However, I, like it, have omitted almost all initialism (CFC), also musical terms (fff), Roman numerals (MCM), chess notation (PxP), and international vehicle registrations (GBG), except for one or two. Abbreviations like Mdm, and morpheme-medial clusters like rtr are also omitted. The list is …

Kickshaws

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Lyrical Palindromes, Mark J. Russell

Word Ways

Last lash, sugar of suede

Taste yet again

A manic in a pot of rust.

Double Doubles, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

This article searches for words in which 2 pairs of double letters occur adjacently. Previous items in Word Ways have looked for words with 2 pairs of doubled letters but, almost exclusively, words in which the 2 pairs occur anywhere in relation to each other. However, scattered in these lists are examples in which the 2 pairs occur together. The History section below extracts these examples. The words are listed in alphabetical order of the doubled letters. Unreferenced words in the History section can be found in Webster's Second Edition.

Mothers And Their Vowels, Thomas L. Bernard

Word Ways

Born into the Scottish nobility in the first year of the twentieth century, Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon became the Queen Consort on the accession of her husband Prince Albert to the throne (as King George VI) in 1936. When she became a window in 1952 and her daughter became Queen Elizabeth II, she was formally known as the Queen Mother but more informally and affectionately by the general public as the "Queen Mum". Her children Elizabeth and Margaret, though grown, continued to call her "Mummy".

Bananagrams 20, 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.

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.

A Logological Game Of Bridge, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

In a game of contract bridge, the four players are assigned the names North, East, South, and West, corresponding to their seats around a bridge table. Among the 52 playing cards, from the Spade Ace to the Club Two, which 13 are most appropriate for North to hold? Which 13 for East? For South? For West? The Spade Ace shares no letters with North, three letters with East (eas), and one letter with South (s), and two letters with West (es). So, it is logologically appropriate to assign the Spade Ace to East.

(W)Holesome Fun, Christopher Mcmanus

Word Ways

Word squares continue to constitute one of the grand research topics of recreational linguistics. The search for a universally acceptable 10-square is still one of the Holy Grails of word play. Like any substantial research topic, the idea of "word squares" suggests a further plethora of interesting related topics by modifying and relaxing its definition.