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A New 6x6x6 Word Cube, Barry Fagan

Word Ways

A word puzzle.

Punk Whiz 19, . Anil

Word Ways

A Pun Quiz.

The Copala Triqui Auxiliary Construction For Emotional And Psychological Predicates, George Aaron Broadwell

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

Copala Triqui has a construction in which predicates of emotion and psychological state appear with one of two special auxiliary verbs, derived historically from verbs meaning 'see' and 'look'. This paper details the constraints on the syntax of the emotion auxiliary construction and contrasts it with the ordinary verbal syntax of the language. (Ethnologue code TRC)

Scholarworks Statistics - February 2013, Scholarworks

ScholarWorks Reports

For the month of February 2013, ScholarWorks recorded a total of 24,199 full-text downloads and 14,122 page views.

Snmipnuntn, February 2013, University Of Montana--Missoula. Mansfield Library

Snmipnuntn

No abstract provided.

Occupational Health Surveillance Immigrant Suvey Report February 2013, Nh Department Of Health And Human Services, Division Of Public Health Services, Occupational Health Surveillance Program And Office Of Minority Health And Refugee Affairs, And The Nh Coalition For Occupational Safety And Health

Manchester Research Group

Survey statistics from various immigrant groups pertaining to health, education, worker compensation and work injury.

Forward, Sonia Hernandez, Marci Mcmahon

NACCS Annual Conference Proceedings

This special issue of Río Bravo: A Journal of the Borderlands highlights a series of essays and creative work presented at the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) Tejas Foco conference at the University of Texas, Pan American in the Río Grande Valley in South Texas in February 2013. We are excited by the quality of the essays in this special issue, and we encourage scholars and activists in the Chicana/o and Latina/o studies community to engage with the scholarship and creative work in this volume. A print copy will be available sometime this August. The Mexican American …

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 46, Number1

Word Ways

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

The Meaning Of Time, Solomon W. Golomb

Word Ways

The English word TIME has multiple meanings which would require at least three distinct words when translated into other languages. Consider the following three answers to the simple-sounding question "what time was it?"

a. It was 9 a.m. b. It was the third time. c. It was during the tenth century.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Art Begins At Forty, Jeremy Morse

Word Ways

No abstract available.

Let's Go By Wisconsin, Glenn G. Dahlem

Word Ways

Persons who grew up in Wisconsin don't always realize the profound yet subtle influence European languages have had on the English currently spoken there. Many of the idioms. colloquialisms and linguistic patterns in use in the Badger state are descended from similar ones found in many European tongues. One scholar once remarked that language patterns found in New York City and Wisconsin are the same, excepts in Wisconsin farmland separates the various ethnic neighborhoods.

Kickshaws, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Dissing And Hocking: More Amusing Bloopers And Snappy Comebacks, Dan Hauptman

Word Ways

A collection of media bloopers.

My Favorite Magic, Norwich Bumstead

Word Ways

A word puzzle.

Funny Words 5, . Anil

Word Ways

A list of funny words.

Curiosities Of The Lake, Walt Quader

Word Ways

There's a curious dieseling "SAMUEL SAMUEL CLEMENS SAMUEL CLEMENS CLEMENS" sequence in Mark Twain's Roughing It, in the 'Curiosities of the Lake' story.

A Hundred-Word Way, Walt Quader

Word Ways

A new draft of a post first published in Wordfun, 2004 March 21.

Anagram Quiz 9, . Anil

Word Ways

A quiz.

Damn Mad Boring Trifler?, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Dimitri Alfred Borgmann, the father of recreational linguistics, crafted the anagram of his name that is the title of this chapter. Damn mad? yes, if one take this palindromic phrase to mean "carried away by enthusiasm or desire." Boring trifler? never.

Definitive Anagrams: P, . Anil

Word Ways

Continued from and as in August.

Good-Night Alphabet, David Morice

Word Ways

A poem.

A Puzzle-Game For "Brains", Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A Puzzle.

Neologisms: Beginning With Letters T Through Z, J. James Mancuso

Word Ways

No abstract available.

Group Therapy, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

Each of the twenty offerings below displays alphabetically-ordered initials, sans one, corresponding to a familiar set of elements. To achieve your objective, you must properly identify the collections, fill in the blank, and delineate all of the members of the set.

Poetry In Latinglish, J. James Mancuso

Word Ways

An explanation and rules for creating Latinglish poetry.

Problem Solving Strategies In Boggle-Like Games, Benjamin Dickman

Word Ways

George Polya's seminal work "How to Solve it" describes general methods for approaching and solving mathematical problems. The book begins with Polya's four principles for solving a problem: understand the problem, make a plan, carry out the plan, and look back. Much of the remainder of the book is devoted to an encyclopedic listing of different heuristics for use in mathematical problem solving. Polya's work can also be applied in problem solving settings outside of mathematics. For example, to clarify the role of his four principles in tackling a new problem, Polya explores the following non-mathematical question: what single English …

French Numbers, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Word Ways has previously published articles containing transposals and transadditions of the number names, the cardinals, ZERO, ONE, TWO and so on. It has also listed words from which multiple number names can be spelled out (eg TOWNHOUSE contains ONE and TWO, and CONFECTIONERY contains ONE, FORTY and FORTY-ONE).

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.

Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

Instructions to authors and back cover.