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Letter Sums And Differences, Eric Iverson
Letter Sums And Differences, Eric Iverson
Word Ways
In the November 2004 Kickshaws, Dave Morice pointed out that the first two letters of HOW add to the third (8+15=23), and that the first two letters of to the third (23-25=8). This idea can be extended to longer words; any two consecutive letters in a word must add (or subtract) to the next letter, such as CADE, 3+1=4 followed by 1+4=5. To allow for sums greater than 26, use the circular alphabet: A=1, B=2, ... Z=26, A=27, etc. The same stratagem is used to create positive differences, such as SARI, 19-1=18 followed by 27-18=9.
The Squarehead And The Square, Ernest W. Ager
The Squarehead And The Square, Ernest W. Ager
Word Ways
Corporal Long told me that when the Squarehead applied for enlistment at the Baltimore Recruiting Office he was so unsophisticated that they had to lash him to a bunk and blindfold him before they could get leather shoes on him. Major Kelly, "The Colonel" of Salmagundi days, was the recruiting officer that accepted the latest immigrant from Schleswig, and thereby wove for himself a crown of thorns.
A Type Collection Of Cvccvccvc Words, A. Ross Eckler
A Type Collection Of Cvccvccvc Words, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Among nine-letter words of the vowel-consonant pattern CVCCVCCVC, can one find all 125 possible vowel sections? Elsewhere in this issue, Hugo Brandt Corstius in "Battus in Wonderland" has constructed a story in which 125 Dutch words of this nature are featured. In English, it is possible to find 121 words in Webster's Second, as given in the table below (the numbers following some words indicate the number of occurrences in Kucera and Francis's million-word corpus Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English (1967).
Headshots And Footprints Revsisted, Susan Thorpe
Headshots And Footprints Revsisted, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
The reader is referred to the headshot and footprint categories listed in Eric Iverson's Headshots And Footprints (August 2005). As an extension to Eric's article, I have compiled the following A-Z lists of headshot words and footprint words which are all heterograms (no repeated letters). Most of the words can be found in the Oxford English DIctionary, Second Edition. Places, identified by country, are taken from the United States Board on Geographic Names. Other references: Hodge = Handbook of American Indians ed. by F.W.Hodge, 1907; Sted. = Stedman's Medical Dictionary; Web2=Webster's Second Edition.
Old Saws Repaired, Christopher Mcmanus
Old Saws Repaired, Christopher Mcmanus
Word Ways
The roots of mangled proverbs as wordplay are historically distant. In Cervantes' classic Don Quixote, one humorous hallmark of Sancho Panchez was his abuse of proverbs; Sancho piled proverb on proverb, using garbled and inflated language, often citing them where inapplicable. The long-running radio show Easy Aces brought the form to modern mass entertainment as early as 1931. "You've got the cards before the horse," "the laugh's on the other foot," and "familiarity breeds attempt" were a few of comedienne Jane Ace's insights on the show.
Magic Square Logology, A. Ross Eckler
Magic Square Logology, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
A magic square, well-known to recreational mathematicians, consists of a set of numbers (integers) arranged in a square, such that the sum of each row and column and both of the principal diagonals is the same. Although magic squares date back thousands of years and have an extensive literature (see for example Magic Squares and Cubes by W.S. Andrews, published by Dover in 1960), the following logological problem involving magic squares appears to be new: construct a magic square in which the number-names in each row, column and diagonal share a letter (a different one in each case). Since there …
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.
Beyond Agamemnon, Rex Gooch
Beyond Agamemnon, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
An Agamemnon word consists of three triplets, each of which is a palindrome, as in Aga-mem-non. This article explores what happens as the number and size of triplets is varied.
Definitive Anagrams: J-L
Word Ways
Continued from the November 2004 Word Ways. Because of the large number of new pre-J catch-up words this article rightly should be called "A-L". But no, tradition prevails over logic yet again, the three previous articles being A-C, D-F, and G-I.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 38 Issue 3
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 38 Issue 3
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Two Early Palindromic Peoms By "Caliban", Ove Michaelsen
Two Early Palindromic Peoms By "Caliban", Ove Michaelsen
Word Ways
Hubert Phillips, English crossword puzzle and logic puzzle constructor, created at least two palindromic poems. The first one was featured in Bergerson's Palindromes and Anagrams (page 94); it originally appeared in the Dogberry column in the London News Chronicle for Oct 16 1942. The second poem is found in the same column for May 1 1941.
Traveling Around The Ouija Board, Eric Iverson
Traveling Around The Ouija Board, Eric Iverson
Word Ways
Supposedly guided by spirits form another world, the planchette glides from letter to letter on a Ouija board, spelling out words. One can characterize the difficulty of a word by the distance that planchette must travel to spell the words (visiting the letters in the order of their appearance in the word). The table below gives the shortest-travel and the longest-travel words of various lengths, in pixels using the Ouija board.
Larger Letter Trees, Rex Gooch
Larger Letter Trees, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
In Word Ways 2005-103ff., Eric Iverson presented some 4-letter trees, and some trees with 5-letter words. As invited by the editor, I take up the search from there. Throughout, I assume that all words in a tree must be different. The reader should sympathize if there are any errors, for tracing a vast number of almost identical words through many trees is even worse than proofreading word ladders, and repeatedly reminded me of the famous motif from Zork: "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike".
620 7x7 Squares With Geographical Palindromes, Zoran Radisavljevic
620 7x7 Squares With Geographical Palindromes, Zoran Radisavljevic
Word Ways
It is not easy to make a 7x7 palindromic square with common words as nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc. In Serbia, puzzlers have made 10-15 such squares, all with some unusual terms like the title of a book, or the name of a person or geographical place. With the help of atlases and the Internet, we can make even some thematic palindrome squares. Most of these interesting places I found on the Dan Tilque site.
Palindromy's Unseen "Virtual Verse", Jim Puder
Palindromy's Unseen "Virtual Verse", Jim Puder
Word Ways
A surprising and little-recognized property of rhyming, end-to-end palindromic verse is that, contrary to intuition, the order of the lines in such verse may often be transposed in a number of ways without loss of either rhyme or palindromicity. Such line-order permutations can (a) preserve both the verse's original rhyme and palindromicity schemes, (b) change its rhyme scheme, (c) change its palindromicity scheme or (d) change both its rhyme and palindromicity schemes.
What's In A Phrase?, Susan Thorpe
What's In A Phrase?, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
We all use phrases without a second thought or glance. Many of these word liaisons, however, are host to a world of hidden words and hidden letter patterns. Some of these are now about to be exposed. The phrases under scrutiny here are mostly, but not exclusively, 2-word affairs.
Substitute-Letter Transposals Of Aeinrst, Darryl Francis
Substitute-Letter Transposals Of Aeinrst, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Earlier issues of Word Ways have demonstrated the fecundity of the seven-letter group AEINRST when it comes to transposals. My August 1998 article offered 155 transposals of these letters, a November 1999 Colloquy added a further four transposals, and my February 2000 article offered another 23 transposals found on the Internet. There were 181 transposals in all in those three items; RE-SATIN was included as a coinage in the original 155, and confirmed as a genuine word in the 23 Internet transposals.
Wysiwyg Words For Scrabble Players, John Holgate
Wysiwyg Words For Scrabble Players, John Holgate
Word Ways
The Swiss author Max Frisch once observed 'The truth is the best camouflage - nobody believes it'. Recently at a suburban Scrabble club meeting the truth of that observation was brought home to me. I opened my game against a neophytic player with AI. 'Hang on a tick' he exclaimed. 'What does that mean?' 'It's the three-toed Brazilian sloth.' By way of demonstration I jumped up and cavorted about the room yelling 'Ah-ee, ah-ee, ah-ee', beating my chest and scratching my armpits like an ai might do. My opponent folded his arms in disbelief. 'Yeah right. As if. I happen …
Dalend Talent: Dutch Purple Turtles, Hugo Brandt Corstius
Dalend Talent: Dutch Purple Turtles, Hugo Brandt Corstius
Word Ways
I call these pairs "Dalend Talent" (decreasing talent) as there are quite a few too-easy examples.
Card Deck Wordplay, A. Ross Eckler
Card Deck Wordplay, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
There are thirteen playing card names consisting of 52 letters: TWO THREE FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE TEN JACK QUEEN KING ACE. What sort of wordplay is possible with these? To begin with, there is a crossword challenge-to arrange the words in a standard crossword array, in a rectangle of minimum size. Here is a 9x10 example that can possibly be improved.
Spoonertoons 2: We're Punning For Resident, Don Hauptman, Jim Siergey
Spoonertoons 2: We're Punning For Resident, Don Hauptman, Jim Siergey
Word Ways
Our first "Spoonertoons" collaboration appeared one year ago, in the August 2004 Word Ways. The positive response was so overwhelming (well, uh, the barista at Don's favorite coffee bar liked "Heed the Foamless!") that we decided a sequel was in order. Herewith, sore of the maim-that is: more of the same.
Kickshaws, Dave Morice
Half And Half Words, A. Ross Eckler, Eric Iverson
Half And Half Words, A. Ross Eckler, Eric Iverson
Word Ways
In the May 2005 Kickshaws, Dave Morice showed how VIOLET is a very unusual word: its letters are half vowels and half consonants, half from the first half of the alphabet and half from the last half, etc. In an attempt to find out how unusual this word is, compared with other English words, we propose the following ten rules for dividing the alphabet into two parts.
368,435,456 Sonnet Anagrams, Mike Keith
368,435,456 Sonnet Anagrams, Mike Keith
Word Ways
Pick a line at random from the four in the first group, a line from the four in the second group, and so on, to create a Shakespearean sonnet with rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. Repeat this process to create a second sonnet that is a line-by-line anagram of the first. There are some other mild constraints: the four lines in the second group mention the four seasons, and there are minor allusions to other poems. The lines were constructed to make each sonnet say something reasonably coherent (vaguely having to do with the current world situation).
English In Foreign Dress, Leonard R.N. Ashley
English In Foreign Dress, Leonard R.N. Ashley
Word Ways
Now that English of one short or another (America, British, etc.) is the whole world's second language, it seems only natural that English words are incorporated into foreign speech. Just as we borrowed from the French their concepts and their words (nuance, restaurants, etc.) so speakers of languages other than English borrow from us.
Headshots And Footprints, Eric Iverson
Headshots And Footprints, Eric Iverson
Word Ways
If you view the tops of capital sans serif letters, they can be divided into several categories, listed at the left below. The same thing can be done with letter bottoms, at the right.
Dutch Number-Names Are Interesting Too, Hugo Brandt Corstius
Dutch Number-Names Are Interesting Too, Hugo Brandt Corstius
Word Ways
Editor's Note: In the November 1998 Word Ways, Dave Morice defined unique properties for each of the first 99 number-names. THe following is a translation of Getalnamen on page gn of Battus Opperlans! Taal- & letterkunde (Querido, 2003). Analogous English-language records, if they exist, are given in brackets at the end.