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A Poem, Martin Gardner

Word Ways

This is an excerpt from Gardner's 1969 book Never Make Fun Of A Turtle, My Son (Simon and Schuster, illustrated by John Alcorn).

Sentence Carried Out, A. Anil

Word Ways

Many well known proverbs, quotes and expressions have entered out vocabularies in a foreshortened, hence inaccurate, form. I here set the record straight by revealing the original, complete sentences.

Comparative Homophonic Trios, A. Anil

Word Ways

"Trios" are thoughts expressed by three related words. They may be phrases, sentences, conversations, miniature poems ("triodes"), three pieces of a single word, etc. The three words may be related in any number of ways - homophones, anagrams, word ladders, other logological relations, rhyme, alliteration, repetition. Here's a special type, in the irreverant style of gross grocer grossest. You'll quickly see what I'm up to. It's artificial, sure, but it created the scaffolding for some trios I thought you might enjoy.

Spoonertoons 5: Drawing A Sign In The Land, Don Hauptman, Jim Siergey

Word Ways

Cartoons containing spoonerisms.

Urban Renewal, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

It has been reputed that the continent of Atlantis was lost beneath the sea and there are historical references to the lost city of the Incas. Mindful of these occurrences, each of the twenty-five examples below represents what has been left behind when a world city has disappeared from the beginning, end or middle of a word en toto.

Fibonacci Words: "Howl, Sex Orgy Poet!", A. Anil

Word Ways

No, not a direct quote from Leonardo Fibonacci of Thirteenth Century Florence, just words based on translating his famous number sequence into letters, with A-Z = 1-26, 27-52, etc. There are two types of Fibonacci words, "natural" and "arbitrary".

Etc, David Morice, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

In this article, the reader will witness a years-long journey towards logological discovery. It began with a single word that seemed to be the only member of a specific class of anagrams. Then a second example was found. And now, like the little Dutch boy who put his finger into the hole in the dike, we pulled our fingers out, the dike broke and the wordplay poured all over us. We were in the middle of a language flood, and we'd like to invite you to "come on in, the water's fine".

Town-And-State Name Transposals, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Transposals of the US statenames have received considerable attention in previous editions of Word Ways. Familiar transposals include NOMINATES (MINNESOTA), NOWANIGHTS (WASHINGTON) and TAXES (TEXAS).

Another Unidictionary Nine-Square, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

The November 1991 Word Ways exhibited a nine-square by Eric Albert with all of its words contained in a single dictionary (Webster's Second Unabridged), the first one of its kind to be discovered. Can this feat be duplicated with words only from the Oxford English Dictionary? At least two logologists have tried, with varying degrees of success. In the February 1997 Word Ways Richard Sabey presented the first square given below, claiming that it consisted entirely of OED words.

Digital Diversions, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Letter digitalization converts the letters of a word into their alphanumerical values (A=1, B=2 ... Z=26) and then breaks down the barriers between and within the resulting numbers to reveal a string of digits. Thus the word WORD 23, 15, 18, 4 has the digit string 2315184. Digitalized words are interesting for numerous reasons.

A Mel Stover Recollection, Bob Friedhoffer

Word Ways

The late Canadian magician Mel Stover was a close friend of Martin Gardner.

Amoebic Charades, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Logological charades occur when a word is split into two or more words which make a phrase. Thus BESTRIDE - BEST RIDE and NOTABLE - NOT ABLE are charades. Occasionally, the original word together with the words into which it divides all make a phrase: BITTERN BIT TERN.

Instructions To Authors, Subscribers

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Instructions for authors interested in contributing and readers interested in subscribing.

Answers And Solutions

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Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.

Crossword

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A crossword puzzle.

Back Cover

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Back cover, including Fox Blox.

Effects Of Culturally Responsive Teaching Practices On The Literacy Learning Of Latino Students, Miriam Elizabeth Stroder

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Raising scholastic achievement of diverse and struggling students as well as narrowing the academic achievement gap between students from mainstream and diverse backgrounds seems to be essentially dependent on educators’ personal knowledge, perspectives, and definitions regarding the terms multicultural education and equity pedagogy. Research studies confirm that addressing student’s culture, language, and social status with appreciation, inclusion, and sensitivity increases their academic successes. In classrooms, negative perceptions often maintained by educators about students perpetuate the false belief that diverse learners are unable to or struggle to grasp new learning. This ten-week qualitative study examined teachers’ perceptions as well as implementations …

Text Analytics For Semantic Computing - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

This tutorial was give at the Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing Santa Clara, CA, USA - August 4-7, 2008.

Forty-Three Names, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Here are 43 names of various people, presented in alphabetical order. Some are surnames only, some are first-name and surname, some involve an initial, some are fictional, and some are groups of people.

Missing Persons, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

Each of the thirty words listed below has resulted from the removal of the same three-letter name from the end and the beginning of two other words and running the remaining letters together. As an illustration, if we were to split the word CREDO between its first and second letters, the insertion of the name ALF would produce CALF and ALFREDO.

U.S. Supreme Court Interviews On Effective Legal Writing – Part Iii, Robert S. Anderson

Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship

This column concludes a three-part discussion of legal writing interviews given by eight of the nine sitting justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices discussed usage and grammar issues, as well as their own pet peeves as readers of legal writing.

Vol. 31 No. 1 (2008): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Brigham Young University–HawaiʻI

Pacific Studies

Front Matter for the Vol. 31, No 1-March 2008 edition of the Pacific Studies Journal.

Agreement And Group Attraction In Face-To-Face And Computer-Mediated Group Discussions, Krishnamurti Murniadi

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Topics within small-group communication have been explored in many contexts, such as work group, organizational meeting, or online network. This area of discipline is considered crucial because this type of communication assimilates interpersonal relations within a social setting. Two elements that largely affect small-group communication dynamics are anonymity and social identity. This research invokes previous research in anonymity and social identity within small-group communication pertaining to the level of agreement and the level of group attraction through a series of experiments.

Anonymity in small-group communication context is defined as a condition where the group members are not identifiable. To create …

The Role Of Political Discourse In Conflict Transformation: Evidence From Northern Ireland, Katy Hayward

Peace and Conflict Studies

This article introduces this volume by constructing a model for analysing political discourse as an instrument of conflict and peace, drawing on evidence from the Northern Ireland case. It identifies three processes, or stages, in a peace process in which political discourse can play a unique and crucial role: (i) the construction of a (conceptual) framework within which negotiations can take place, (ii) the facilitation of agreement between moderate and extreme positions, and (iii) the forging of common ground. The motivating thesis of this research is that discourse analysis is a vital resource for deepening our knowledge of why, how …

The Maintenance Of Republican Ideology And Tactics In The Discourses Of Ira Former Prisoners, Peter Shirlow, Jonathan Tonge, James W. Mcauley

Peace and Conflict Studies

The debate concerning ideology and ideological shifts during peace-building in Northern Ireland has generally failed to account for the attitudes and opinions of former combatants concerning the nature and meaning of discursively constructed identities and political strategies. This invisibility is peculiar in that debates concerning ideological shifts have been driven by academic analysis or by those former combatants who maintain that the Irish peace process is paralleled by core ideological abandonment. The material presented within this article indicates that former Provisional Irish Republican prisoners do not view the peace process as involving ideological ditching but instead that their commitment to …

Experience, Reflect, Critique: The End Of The “Learning Cycles” Era, Jayson O. Seaman

Kinesiology

According to prevailing models, experiential learning is by definition a stepwise process beginning with direct experience, followed by reflection, followed by learning. It has been argued, however, that stepwise models inadequately explain the holistic learning processes that are central to learning from experience, and that they lack scientific or philosophical foundations. Criticism also centers on the way complex cultural, social, and physical processes during experience and learning are reduced to a rational, excessively cognitive, individual phenomenon. This article reviews this criticism and adds a historical dimension to the analysis, concluding that existing cyclic models might be better valued for their …

Professions "Of All Professions, Begging Is The Best" A Paper By Michael Davis. Response By Joseph Ellin. Professor Davis' Reply, Center For The Study Of Ethics In Society

Center for the Study of Ethics in Society Papers

Michael Davis' original paper was presented to the Center of the Study of Ethics in Society Western Michigan University on October 4, 2007.

Front Matter, Peace And Conflict Studies

Peace and Conflict Studies

No abstract provided.

Office Of Research -- Annual Report 2007-2008

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

Table of Contents
ANNUAL REPORT 2007–2008 1
A Time to Think Boldly 1
Lake Mud Holds Climate Secrets 2
Of Grass and Sand – Lessons in Resilience 4
Web Tools Aid Drought Decisions 6
Partnering on Climate Research 7
New Home Furthers Virology Collaboration 8
Innovation Campus in the Works 10
Projects Aim to Ease Research Space Shortage 11
Quilt Center Expanding Its Reach in New Building 12
Genetics Project Melds Biology, Nanotechnology 14
Strengthening Plant Science Research 15
Tiny Tools, Big Potential 16
Omaha and Ponca Dictionary Going Digital 18
Historian Influencing Digital Research 19
Building Longer-Lasting Bridges 20 …

Dialectic Of Indifference And The Process Of Self-Determination In Hegel's Logic And The Philosophy Of Right, Senem Saner

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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