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"X" Marks The Spot, Steve Kahan
"X" Marks The Spot, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
Indeed, "X" does mark the spot - in this case, the final spot - in the twenty words that this quiz solicits. The remaining, arranged alphabetically, require suitable permutation prior to attachment of the letter "X" at the end of each. A perfect score here is "X"cellent!
Anagram Arithmetic, A. Anil
Anagram Arithmetic, A. Anil
Word Ways
There are only two known pure number name anagram equations in English except rearrangements of their words. Naturally I exclude the infinite tautologies that swap whole digits. It's a matter of opinion whether to count tautologies that swap a non-digit suffix. Such suffix swaps occur in the teens in Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, transliterated Russian, Slovene and Arabic, and no doubt other languages, but not Dutch, Welsh or transliterated Hebrew, Hindi, Chinese or Japanese.
"Let's Push The Envelope Out Of The Box": More Mixed And Mashed Metaphors, Don Hauptman
"Let's Push The Envelope Out Of The Box": More Mixed And Mashed Metaphors, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
I last wrote about mixed metaphors in in the November 2008 issue of Word Ways. A friend who read that article chastised me because not all the examples I cited meet the strict definition of a mixed metaphor. After some consideration, I conceded that she had a point.
The Art Of Magic, Oscar Thumpbindle
The Art Of Magic, Oscar Thumpbindle
Word Ways
On anyone's list of the world's greatest mathemagicians the name Arthur Benjamin would most certainly appear. He has recently been showing a truly astounding mathematical card trick. I first saw Art present it at a Gathering for Gardner and later saw him give it again at a Mathematical Association of America regional meeting. The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 95, No. 531, Nov. 2010 contains "To your hearts' content" by Hang Chen and Curtis Cooper which describes the trick. They said "Arthur Benjamin showed the amazing mathematical card trick during the 2007 annual meeting of the AMS/MAA in New Orleans."
Fewest Words In Rearranged Alphabets, A. Ross Eckler
Fewest Words In Rearranged Alphabets, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Unless one is dealing with a relatively large dictionary, it is not difficult to rearrange the alphabet so that no four-letter heterograms (words with no repeated letters) can be read off in order. However, it appears impossible to achieve this for three-letter heterograms for even a small dictionary. The purpose of this article is to exhibit an alphabetic rearrangement (not unique) that minimizes the number of three-letter Official Scrabble Players Dictionary heterograms.
Word Rings On Lettered Footballs, Mike Keith
Word Rings On Lettered Footballs, Mike Keith
Word Ways
A traditional football (soccer ball) is a combination of 20 pentagons and 12 hexagons arranged in the familiar pattern shown here. Suppose a letter of the alphabet is placed on each white hexagon. Can this be done such that the five hexagons that form a ring around each of the twelve black pentagons spell a word when read clockwise? The answer is yes, and finding such labelling makes a nice puzzle - especially if solution by hand, rather than computer, is required.
Neologisms: F Through K, J. James Mancuso
Neologisms: F Through K, J. James Mancuso
Word Ways
An alphabetical listing of neologisms, F through K.
Say Cheese!, Steve Kahan
Say Cheese!, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
To elicit a smile, a photographer will often ask his subject to "say cheese." Imagine his astonishment if the response he received were a list of twenty different varieties of cheese. That is precisely what appears below in a somewhat disguised format. Each of the words presented there contains an errant letter. Identify it, replace it with another, and permute the resulting collection to reveal the answer. Twenty out of twenty entitles you to be dubbed a big cheese!
Changing Fashions In Names For Girls, A. Ross Eckler
Changing Fashions In Names For Girls, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Females can often be dated by their names: how many teenage Florences exist, or elderly Brittanys? My middle daughter has often taken me to task for saddling her with the name Lois, usually associated with women a quarter-century older. Perhaps I should have heeded Alexander Pope's 1711 advice, substituting names for words.
Changing Fashions In Names For Boys, A. Ross Eckler
Changing Fashions In Names For Boys, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
This article on the changing popularity of male names since 1880 is based on Popular Baby Names, the Social Security Administration database described in the preceeding article. Details on the layout of the following table can be found there. In general, male names are far less subject to fashion than female names, often persisting for decades.
Pseudo-Plurals Vs. Quasi-Pseudo-Plurals, T. A. Hall
Pseudo-Plurals Vs. Quasi-Pseudo-Plurals, T. A. Hall
Word Ways
Imagine a pair of singular nouns A and B in which B but not A contains a letter at its right edge correspondign to the letter used to express plurality. If A and B are otherwise orthographically identical, I refer to the latter as the pseudo-plural of the former. Pseudo-plurals are very different from pseudo-comparatives. The reason is that triplets like these do not consistently belong to the same word class. By contrast, the words A and B described above most both be (singular) nouns. For reasons that will be clear below, I consider first the nature of pseudo-plurals in …
Fecund Phonetics, Susan Thorpe
Fecund Phonetics, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
The same letter, or group of letters, can have different pronunciations and hence be represented by different phonetic symbols. This is demonstrated in Unusual Words and Arbitrary Words. Conversely, the same phonetic symbol can represent different letters or groups of letters. For example, both the E and I in PHONETIST are pronounced as is the I in PIT. A phonetist is a person versed in phonetics. Each of the words below has more than one identical phonetic symbol represented by a different letter or group of letters. The phonetic symbol is given first, together with the different letter/letter groups …
More Spoonerism Riddles, Jim Puder
More Spoonerism Riddles, Jim Puder
Word Ways
Charmed by Will Shortz's collection, in the last Word Ways, of original riddles based on spoonerisms, I whacked my writs to come up with a durther fuzzin' examples, and beer's the hunch.
More On Pseudoantonyms, T. A. Hall
More On Pseudoantonyms, T. A. Hall
Word Ways
In an article in the last issue of this journal, Anil uncovered a number of examples of pseudoantonyms in the realm of English negatory prefixes. A pseudoantonym consists of an affixed word and the corresponding unaffixed base which one would expect to be antonyms on the basis of the meaning of the affix, but which are instead synonyms (or near synonyms). For example, the prefix DE- has a primary meaning "to do the opposite of" in examples such as ACTIVATE ~ DEACTIVATE, but not in FEND DEFEND. Since the latter two words can be synonymous, they are pseudoantonyms.
Digitalised Numerical Tautonyms, Susan Thorpe
Digitalised Numerical Tautonyms, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Numerical Tautonyms include words such as CRE.ATE, in which the alphabetical numerical total of the first half of the word is equal to that of the second half of the word.
No No No (No, Nay, Never....), Edward R. Wolpow
No No No (No, Nay, Never....), Edward R. Wolpow
Word Ways
We are cautioned in grade school to avoid use of the double negative -- that logically, the 2 negatives cancel out, and if that is not the intention of the writer, confusion rules. But multiple negatives do abound, and not merely for emphasis as is "No, no a thousand times no...."
Hot-Pad: A New Puzzle-Game, Jeremiah Farrell
Hot-Pad: A New Puzzle-Game, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
The Puzzle: The twelve tokens are to be placed on the playing board so that each triangle contains, on its nodes, a transposal of HOT-PAD. On the back cover is a large copy of the playing grid. Another way of looking at the puzzle is to note that the tokens on any two nodes adjoined by a line have no letter in common.
Phonetic Vowel Rotations, Susan Thorpe
Phonetic Vowel Rotations, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Phonetic Vowel Rotations is offered as a new twist on vowel rotations, a genre familiar to the readers of Word Ways. LAST LEST LIST LOST LUST is a vowel rotation. The embedded 5 major vowels 'rotate' in the same position in the word, the other letters also remaining in their positions.
Doublets, Dana Richards
Doublets, Dana Richards
Word Ways
A selection from Richards' book Victorian Enigmas and Sherlockian Puzzles.
Crossword Finishers, A. Ross Eckler
Crossword Finishers, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Over the years, a number of books have been published to aid the crossword solver faced with a word having one or two letters filled in. Such books can become prohibitively large, depending on the number of letters in the partially-solved word.
Punk Whiz 14: State Of The Pun, A. Anil
Punk Whiz 14: State Of The Pun, A. Anil
Word Ways
In this mostly easy pun quiz all the answers are states or provinces of the US, Canada or Australia. (4|4) means the answer is a charade of the state's name whose two parts are hints -- homophonic puns of words or phrases that are not necessarily 4 and 4 letters. Answers are out back.
A Cryptic Puzzle From The London Times, Dana Richards
Rock-Based Fisher Safety Promotion: Five Years On, Kevin Moran
Rock-Based Fisher Safety Promotion: Five Years On, Kevin Moran
International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education
In 2006, a safety campaign was launched in Auckland, New Zealand to combat a spate of drowning incidents associated with fishing from rocky foreshores. This paper provides data from surveys of fishers from 2006-10 to determine if preventive behaviors have been adopted after five years of safety promotion. The most significant change in self-reported behavior related to the increased use of life jackets with 34% (95% CI = 0.25-0.44) of fishers in 2010 compared with 72% (95% CI = 0.66-0.77) in 2006 reporting never wearing a life jacket. Some risky behavior (such as consuming alcohol) and at-risk attitudes (such as …
Dialogical Narrative Amd The Struggle For Vehicle Consciousness In D.H Lawrence's Women In Love, Alyssa Robinson
Dialogical Narrative Amd The Struggle For Vehicle Consciousness In D.H Lawrence's Women In Love, Alyssa Robinson
Theses
No abstract provided.
Using Tasks Effectively To Teach Chinese As A Foreign Language To College Students In The U.S.A., Shengjie Lu
Using Tasks Effectively To Teach Chinese As A Foreign Language To College Students In The U.S.A., Shengjie Lu
Theses
No abstract provided.
Huntsman Alumni Magazine, Spring 2011, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business
Huntsman Alumni Magazine, Spring 2011, Usu Jon M. Huntsman School Of Business
Huntsman Business Magazine
Alumni magazine for the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University.
Multimodal Tagging Of Human Motion Using Skeletal Tracking With Kinect, Debaleena Chattopadhyay
Multimodal Tagging Of Human Motion Using Skeletal Tracking With Kinect, Debaleena Chattopadhyay
Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)
Recognizing moves and movements of human body(s) is a challenging problem due to their self-occluding nature and the associated degrees of freedom for each of the numerous body-joints. This work presents a method to tag human actions and interactions by first discovering the human skeleton using depth images acquired by infrared range sensors and then exploiting the resultant skeletal tracking. Instead of estimating the pose of each body part contributing to a set of moves in a decoupled way, we represent a single-person move or a two-person interaction in terms of its skeletal joint positions. So now a single-person move …
International Contracts A Quantitative Analysis Of Transnational Contract Formation, David T. Ackerman
International Contracts A Quantitative Analysis Of Transnational Contract Formation, David T. Ackerman
HIM 1990-2015
Globalization is the promise of the future, and it presents, quite literally, a world of opportunities not available in the past. International collaborations in science, research, and business now enjoy increased probabilities of success, in part, because of the advance in technology and the possibility of instantaneous communications. The convenience, simplicity and affordability of technology are helping to make the world accessible to almost everyone. With new availability of international concerns and the growth of global partnerships in all areas of interest, an increased need arises for agreements that memorialize collaborators' commitments, responsibilities and obligations. There is a corresponding concern …