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Aeiou: 120 Known Human Beings, Eric Chaikin

Word Ways

Supervocalies are words or phrases with AEIOU once each, and no Ys. This is the first of a 3-part series examining complete sets of supervocalic people, places and things. The goal was to find known human beings - reasonably famous supervocalic people - for each of the 120 ordering of AEIOU. After copious amounts of Google searching, the feat has been accomplished.

The Heptcat's Other Trick, Jim Puder

Word Ways

In the February 2003 Word Ways, the HeptCat Perspicuous Palindrome Producer was introduced as a device for the semi-automatic generation of over 200 billion different palindromic sentences. But that is not the HeptCat's only palindromical talent; this cat of seven segments also has the latent ability to engender indefinitely long, grammatical, multi-sentence passages that are end-to-end palindromes.

Never Again, Doug Nuffer

Word Ways

This is the title of a novel of approximately 40,000 words in which no word is repeated; the full test can be found on ubu.com/contemp/nufer.pdf. It relates the adventures of George Raymond ("When the racetrack closed forever I had to get a job" is the first sentence). The book is filled with vivid word-pictures using language reminiscent of James Joyce.

Nine-Square Round-Up, Rex Gooch

Word Ways

This article briefly surveys previous findings, then presents new quality nine-squares. Next, it presents squares with diagonal words to add to those previously published by me. Finally, it looks at the most popular top row words, and also at the most popular words in any position.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

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

The Titania Acrostic Revisited, James Kovalick

Word Ways

In the August 1985 issue of Word Ways, the editor noted that the words in Act III, Scene I of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" which Titania speaks, acrostically form the word T I T An I A which is her name. arguing that these letters are statistically unlikely to have appeared by accident, he asserted that this is evidence that Shakespeare intentionally arranged the acrostic.

Compass Curios, Christopher Mcmanus

Word Ways

"Compass roses" is an appropriate name for diamond-shaped word sets, where the four extremities are the letters N, E, S, and W, in appropriate order. Compass roses of axis-length 5 and 7 are fairly simple to construct. No fully satisfactory compass rose of length 9 was found.

The Fibonacci Alphabet, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

The Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89 144 233 277, ...) is perhaps the most famous one in the mathematics, known for at least 700 years and the subject or a quarterly journal during the last 40. (In the sequence, each term in the sum of the preceding two terms.) It is the purpose of the note to describe in more detail a curious relationship between Fibonacci and the alphabet, brought to the attention of Word Ways readers by Dave Morice in the November 2002 Kickshaws.

Information Interface - Volume 31, Issue 2 - August/September 2003, George Washington University, Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library

Information Interface (1976 - 2009)

News and information about Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library of interest to users. Includes articles on computer network improvements, PDA resources, the annual book sale, and database search tips.

Ua11/1 Echo, August, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

A born digital magazine once delivered over the internet was a continuation of the Echo publication.

Faculty Senate Attendance, 2003, Vol 31, P 8-10, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

No abstract provided.

A Question For Another Day: The Constitutionality Of The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Under Apprendi V. New Jersey, Jane A. Dall

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.

Auga2003, Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From August 2003 Robert Kelly Archive.

Faculty Senate Senate Membership, 2003-2004, Vol 31, P 7, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Documents

No abstract provided.

A Sociolinguistic Comparison Of The Syntax Of Modern Standard Arabic And Jordanian Arabic, Ahmad Mahmoud Saidat

Linguistics & TESOL Theses - Archive

This thesis investigates some of the syntactic differences between two forms of Arabic, the standard and the local vernacular of Petra. This vernacular has not been looked at from a syntactic perspective. The attempt here is to bring attention to some of the features characterizing this vernacular by comparing it with Standard Arabic. It attempts also to find reasons for having two forms of the language in one society as well as people's reaction towards that. It also compares and contrasts the grammatical features each form has and tests them against X-bar theory to see the syntactic difference from a …

The Atlantic Century, Ralph Peters

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

What Are Functional Shifts?, Frank Bramlett

English Faculty Publications

In last month's column, I wrote about variety in word formation processes, the phenomenon of having more than one word form lo represent the same concept, illustrated by word pairs like analysis/analyzation, summary/ summarization, and intensity/intenseness. There is, of course, the other side of the coin. We also use single word forms to represent an array of meanings.

Vol. 1, No. 08 (August 2003)

Indiana Law Update

No abstract provided.

Roster, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Faculty Roster, Fall 2003 And Spring 2004, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

SACS Historical Forms and Applications

Roster of faculty at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg for the academic year 2003-2004.

Effect Of Temperature Variations On Premature Cracking Of Dowel Jointed Concrete Pavements, Gergis W. William

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Dowel jointed concrete pavements exhibit premature top-down transverse cracking at mid slab leading to a dramatic decrease in pavement service life. In the past, such cracks were attributed to combined stresses caused by the temperature differential through the slab thickness and heavy vehicle joint loading. This reasoning failed to explain transverse cracking of Palmdale, California slabs (developed before opening the pavement to traffic ) as well as the transverse cracks on I-80 in Pennsylvania, USA that appeared after one to two years of construction. In this study nonlinear 3D Finite Element (3DFE) analysis that includes detailed consideration of slab constraints …

Non-Native Esl Teachers' Reactions To Students' Different Cultural Backgrounds In Classroom Interaction, Livia Silva Lirio

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

There have been research studies done in the area of cross-cultural analysis that discuss the necessity of culture-oriented examiners or assessors as well as "culture-free testing" when assessing students from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Despite evidence that "culture-bias" is present in oral examinations, few of the studies found directly approach the instructors' reactions to students' different cultural and backgrounds in classroom interaction. Therefore the purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate teachers' perspectives on teaching in a multicultural classroom. The findings of this study conducted in an American language institute with non-native ESL teachers reveal a mismatch between …

Some Psychoanalytic Aspects Of Serial Homicide, Ed Cameron

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

"Placing" Health Risks In The Karakoram: Local Perceptions Of Disease, Dependency, And Social Change In Northern Pakistan, Sarah Halvorson

Geography Faculty Publications

This article examines local perceptions of health risks in a mountain community in the Karakoram of Northern Pakistan. Specifically, it aims to show how the tremendous social and economic transformations taking place in this region are experienced and understood by the people most affected by them. The case study draws from ethnographic data collected through a range of methods, including personal narratives, focus groups, interviews, household surveys, conversations, and participant observations. Central to this analysis is the role that social change plays in mediating and shaping residents’ worries, and perceived vulnerabilities within this particular economic and cultural context. Furthermore, the …

Male And Female He Created Them: Ælfric’S Lives Of Saints And Patristic Theories Of Gender, Rhonda L. Mcdaniel

Dissertations

My dissertation researches the writings of the four Latin Doctors, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and Gregory the Great, in order to challenge the scholarly stereotype of misogyny and anxiety about women in the writings of these influential figures and, more importantly, to build the cultural foundation upon which to base an interpretation of Ælfric’s portrayals of male and female saints in the Lives of Saints.

Accordingly, in the first chapter I focus on the writings of the Latin Doctors concerning the practice of virginity and on their explications of the Trinity and the Creation and Fall of humankind. I then trace …

Avant Propos (Introduction), Alain A. Levasseur, Jackie Mccreary

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mixed Jurisdictions: A Model For The Xxist Century?, Jean-Louis Baudouin

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

The French Connection And The Spanish Perception: Historical Debates And Contemporary Evaluation Of French Influence On Louisiana Civil Law, Vernon Valentine Palmer

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Bijuralism As An Assimilation Tool: Lord Durham's Assessment Of The Louisiana Legal System, Roger K. Ward

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

On The Principle Of Legal Certainty In The Louisiana Civil Law Tradition: From The Manifesto To The Great Repealing Act And Beyond, John A. Lovett

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Inroads Toward Contemporary Latina Literature: Poetry And Criticism, Adela Josefina Najarro

Dissertations

No abstract provided.