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Ian Storey. Southeast Asia And The Rise Of China: The Search For Security. Routledge Security In Asia Series. London And New York: Routledge. 2011., John Walsh Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

A World Englishes Study Of Korean University Students: Effects Of Pedagogy On Language Attitudes, Patrick Rousseau

MA TESOL Collection

I examine the impact of raising awareness of World English varieties on the language attitudes of Korean university students. This study triangulated direct attitudinal measurements through the use of a 6-point Likert scale survey with indirect attitudinal measurements by employing a verbal guise test. The verbal guise test used recordings of representative speakers from six varieties of English: American, Chinese, Japanese, British, Saudi, and Korean English. Attitudinal measurements were taken pre and post a series of four 1½-hour practical English classes designed to raise awareness of world varieties, along with global trends in language use that highlight the importance of …

“Teach To The Middle”: A Double Case Study Of Two Multilevel Efl Classes In The Middle East, Teresa Hernandez

MA TESOL Collection

The purpose of this paper is to develop a comprehensive understanding of multilevel classes. It examines the pedagogical challenges that teachers often face in this teaching context, but it also considers the implications for what multilevel classes indicate about access to education in the EFL teaching field. The author has opted to examine two distinct cases of multilevel classes in the Middle East that she taught from 2010-2011 and in 2012. The first was a remedial 7^th grade English class called 7F in an international school in Erbil, the capital city of the Kurdistan region of Iraq. The second …

Graduate News, Office Of Graduate Studies, Old Dominion University

Graduate News

November 2012 issue of Graduate News from the Office of Graduate Studies (now, ODU Graduate School).

Picturing Takings, Lee Anne Fennell

Notre Dame Law Review

Takings doctrine, we are constantly reminded, is unclear to the point of incoherence. The task of finding our way through it has become more difficult, and yet more interesting, with the Supreme Court's recent, inconclusive foray into the arena of judicial takings in Stop the Beach Renourishment. Following guideposts in Kelo, Lingle, and earlier cases, this essay uses a series of simple diagrams to examine how elements of takings jurisprudence fit together with each other and with other limits on governmental action. Visualizing takings in this manner yields surprising lessons for judicial takings and for takings law more generally.

Mandakranta Bose. Women In The Hindu Tradition. Rules, Roles And Exceptions. Routledge. 2010., Susanne Kranz Ph.D.

Journal of International and Global Studies

Book review.

Look Back!, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Anagram dictionaries come in two versions, a reduced one consisting only of words containing anagrams (SLEUTH and HUSTLE), and a full one consisting of the conversion of each word in a list to its alphabetic ordering (ESCORT to CEORST), followed by the alphabetic ordering of the converted words.

A Poem, Martin Gardner

Word Ways

A short poem.

The Ladies' Diary, 18th Century English Almanacs, And One Frustrating Enigma, Ronnie B. Kon

Word Ways

In the November 2011 Word Ways, Jim Puder points out that the solution I found in the 1783 Ladies' Diary for Eliza Hurst's riddle ("an oven") could not be correct-not only did it make no sense in the context, but the number of answers given did not correspond to the number of questions asked in the 1782 Ladies' Diary. Jim is absolutely correct.

Happily, the correct answer has now been found, but in the process I learned a fair amount about 18th century British almanacs, some of which strikes me as being worth sharing.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 45, Number 4

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue, including a table of contents

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

When The Name And The Game Are The Same, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

At the 2012 London Olympics, Usain Bolt, the jet-propelled Jamaican dash man, retained his title to as the fastest man ever to sprint upon our planet. The surname BOLT is wonderfully spot on and target perfect for a human flash, the electrifying holder of world records in the 100- and 200-meter dashes.

Eye Spoonerisms, . Anil

Word Ways

Spoonerisms by definition swap sounds, but when written they are often ANAGRAMS that also swap letters, like Spooner's alleged "a wining shit" for "a shining wit". EYE SPOONERIMS are word pairs that swap letters and look like Anagram Spooners but don't swap sounds.

Mapping Mercator, Walt Quader

Word Ways

I had finished my work for the day and had an idle afternoon ahead. So I said to my computer, "Darwin, let's play with 'Mercator' in a word way. Mercator was born 500 years ago."

Kickshaws, David L. Silverman

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Number Names With A Snowball Letter Distribution, Eric Harshbarger, Mike Keith

Word Ways

The spelling out of numbers in English words is a frequently studied topic by logologists. For example, it has long been known that the numbers 0, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 40, 46, 60, 61, 64, 80, 84, and 5000 are the only ones whose written-out names are heterograms (no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once).

Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

Further Transposals From The Dictionary Of American Regional English, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

In the November 2010 issue of Word Ways, I offered 100 transposals from the Dictionary of American Regional English (volumes I-IV, covering the letters A-Sk). Examples included: ambleshoo / smoothable, clearstone / tolerances, gallinapper / apparelling, presmuterian / serpantarium, and sidegodlin / disloigned.

"Get Out Of Your Cave And Smell The Coffee!" Many More Mixed Metaphors And Malaphors, Dan Hauptman

Word Ways

Not long ago, I volunteered to help a worthy cause as a consultant, pro bono. But the experience proved disappointing and frustrating. The panjandrums ignored or rejected my advice. Relating the sad tale to my friend, I griped: "They're turning me away even though I'm offering them gold on a silver platter!"

Anagram Quiz 8, . Anil

Word Ways

A Quiz.

Eggshells-1, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

An eggshell is what remains when two different pairs of identical consonants are removed from a word. Consequently, E S H E is an eggshell which results from the exclusion of two "G"s and two "E"s from the word EGGSHELL.

Ain't Ain't The Same No More, Glenn G. Dahlem

Word Ways

In a recent conversation with a British friend, he and I reflected on evolution of various English words. Both history and geography are factors in changing word definitions, we decided. For example, in England, the word "dame" means a distinguished lady, while in America, it's come to more or less mean any woman. Our conversation drifted to changes in respectability or grammatical correctness of given words. That topic leads to the inevitable--"ain't."

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.

Palindromes From Perth, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

In July this year my wife Pat and I traveled to Perth in Western Australia (WA) to spend a fortnight with our daughter and her husband. While there, I jotted down a few short palindromes, some more fanciful than others.

The Magic Asteroid, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A game.

Story Reading Speed, Recognition, And Comprehension In Aging And Dementia, Nidhi Mahendra, Tamar Solomon, Laura Ludlow

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Grey Parrot Number Acquisition: The Inference Of Cardinal Value From Ordinal Position On The Numeral List, Irene M. Pepperberg, Susan Carey

Sentience Collection

No abstract provided.

Clark County School District’S English Language Learners An Analysis Of Enrollment, Educational Opportunities, And Outcomes In Nevada And Ccsd, Christina Mokhtar

Lincy Institute Reports and Briefs

As the largest school district in Nevada and the fifth-largest school district in the country, Clark County School District (CCSD) served approximately 310,000 students in 341 schools during the 2010-2011 school year. Typical of urban districts, more than half of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, and 68 percent are students of color. Many schools are located in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, as well as racial and linguistic isolation (Terriquez, Flashman & Schuler-Brown 2009). Also, the patterns of enrollment show dramatic increases in the proportions of English language learners (ELLs) in CCSD over the last two decades.

Wacky Words And Steiner Systems, Simon Norton

Word Ways

I suspect that many readers will have noticed that all the vowels (including Y) occur at odd positions in the alphabet (let's call them odd letters). This led me to think of the set of words using only odd letters.

The Protean Pastern, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

Scientifically, a PASTERN is the part of the horse's foot between the fetlock and the top of the hoof. In his influential Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson famously misdefined the word as "the knee of the horse." When a woman asked Dr. J to explain why he had botched the definition, he replied, "Ignorance, Madam. Pure ignorance."