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Numerically Equivalent Letter Replacements, Susan Thorpe
Numerically Equivalent Letter Replacements, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Readers will be familiar with assigning A=1, B=2 though Z=26 to find the letter total of a word. Most of the words in this article can be found in the OED Second Edition. dfpf = A Dictionary of the Flowering Plants & Ferns, CUP 1966. Clafouti (cherry flan) can be found in recipe books.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 34 Issue 3
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 34 Issue 3
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
The Two-Year Grid, Eric Angelini
The Two-Year Grid, Eric Angelini
Word Ways
In the rectangular grid below, the 21 number names from 0 through 20 each appear once, along with the eight additional number-names 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100. Both the horizontal number names and the vertical ones add to 365, the number of days in a year. Furthermore, all number-names are connected, forming a single network. Can anyone construct a grid smaller than 16x17 in which all this is possible?
Twenty Thousand Palindromic "And" S, Bill A. O'Connor
Twenty Thousand Palindromic "And" S, Bill A. O'Connor
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On page 96 of I Love Me, Vol. I, Michael Donner suggests that the ordinary possibilities of the English palindrome are so close to being exhausted that, if new work is to be produced, it may become necessary to enlist the aid of obscure abbreviations in the collection by Ralph de Sola. Word Ways editor A. Ross Eckler perhaps also has in mind the 'drome may be used up when he remarks on page 291 of the November issue that palindromes are not very important to Word Ways because they follow well-trodden paths.
Onomatopoeia And Language Perception, Joshua Nash
Onomatopoeia And Language Perception, Joshua Nash
Word Ways
"Voon-voon" says the dog in Laos whilst in Romania the same creature says "ham-ham". The question we may ask here is whether dogs in different locals are saying different things or whether we humans perceive what they are saying differently? It seems common sense that a labrador in Asia and Europe will make the same noise completely independent of its surroundings. Why then does an English speaker, who is thinking "woof-woof", laugh on finding out that in Indonesia, humans perceive dogs as making the sound "gong-gong"?
Two Sonnet Anagram Puzzles, Michael Keith
Two Sonnet Anagram Puzzles, Michael Keith
Word Ways
The poem below is stanza XXVI from the poem "Picthorn Manor" by American poet and critic Amy Lowell (1874-1925). Below it is a sonnet (in the usual form, with fourteen lines of iambic pentameter and ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme) made from the letters in Ms. Lowell's poem. Aside form being an anagram, the sonnet has another unusual feature. Can you spot it?
Three Anagrams Of Psalms 119, Richard Brodie
Three Anagrams Of Psalms 119, Richard Brodie
Word Ways
The 119th Psalm in notable for a variety of reasons.
The Oz Contradictionary: Part 3
The Oz Contradictionary: Part 3
Word Ways
"Anil" is the pen name of Dr. Charles Melton, a retired Oz (Australian) biologist who privately published in 1999 a 98-page booklet, up/dn, a dictionary and contradictionary of wordplay including anagrams, palindromes and charades. See February 2001 Word Ways for introduction.
Presidential Name Games, Jim Puder
Presidential Name Games, Jim Puder
Word Ways
As familiar as we my think we are with the name of the U.S. presidents, a listing of their fully names might still provide some surprises. For example, how many of us can name, offhand, the three presidents whose first names are known to few these days? And who among us can rattle off, without consulting a reference, the middle names of Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, and Gerald R. Ford? In this article, we explore the roster of the full names of the U.S. presidents in search of amusement, amazement, and perhaps an occult revelation or two.
Dual Perms, Rex Gooch
Dual Perms, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
This article responds to the challenge set by Hugo Brandt Corstius in the May 2001 issue of Word Ways. He sought pairs of words that contained the same letters (i.e., permutations of each other), which were dual in the sense that a position occupied a vowel in one was occupied by consonant in the other. This article takes vowel to mean one of A, E, I, O, or U.
Number Trees And Networks, A. Ross Eckler, David Mroice
Number Trees And Networks, A. Ross Eckler, David Mroice
Word Ways
TWENTY-SEVEN has eleven letters, ELEVEN has six letters, SIX has three letters, THREE has five letters, and FIVE has four letters. No matter what number name one starts with, one always ends up at FOUR. Suppose instead one adds the number of letters in the name to the number itself to obtain a new number-name: TWENTY-SEVEN with eleven letters goes to THIRTY-EIGHT, and this sequence continues with FORTY-NINE, FIFTY-EIGHT,... ending with one of the last eight hundred number names in the thousand vigintillions.
The Suet Alphabet Revisited, Darryl Francis
The Suet Alphabet Revisited, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
In the August 1997 Word Ways, Nyr Indictor posted the Suet Alphabet problem. Namely, can each of the 26 letters be added in turn to SUET, and rearranged to provide a real word? Examples were given for 25 of the letters, but the rearrangement of SUET and Z was problematical.
Planet Packing Revisited, Dana Richards
Planet Packing Revisited, Dana Richards
Word Ways
Ross Eckler discusses a problem in his article "Planet Packing" in the May 2001 Word Ways: given a list of words, such as the names of the planets, how efficiently can they be packed into a single string of characters so that each word on the list can be read off left to right (but not necessarily contiguously)? He hypothesizes "there is no guarantee that any algorithm will end up with a minimum string." Since the design and analysis of algorithms has been my area of research for some 25 years, this caught my attention. Informally, an algorithm is a …
Two Dual Cryptograms, Candice Hirst
Two Dual Cryptograms, Candice Hirst
Word Ways
This was prompted by Doug McIlroy's "Dual Cryptograms" (Word Ways, August 1997). A dual cryptogram is two texts, each of which results from enciphering the other using a substitution cipher. This means that occurrences of the same letter in the first text are replaced by occurrences of the same letter in the second; different letters in the first are replaced by different letters in the second. No letter may stay as itself. Spaces are preserved; punctuation may be added or removed at will, and the distinction between lower and upper case is ignored. Although Doug treated hyphens like spaces, I …
Day And Color Packing, Darryl Francis
Day And Color Packing, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Ross Eckler explored planet packing in the May 2001 issue, attempting to generate an algorithm to create a string of letters from which the names of the planets could be read sequentially. Ross suggested readers might like to explore possible strings for other groups of names.
Kickshaws, Susan Thorpe
"Ironing The Bugs Out": Mixed Metaphors, Don Hauptman
"Ironing The Bugs Out": Mixed Metaphors, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
The mixed metaphor has long been vilified by language lovers. After all, a metaphor per se is often a stretch. The attempt to combine two or more vastly dissimilar figures of speech usually result in a jarring incongruity and an absurd image. Such clashes are often amusing, although the humor is strictly unintentional.
Word Squares? No, Oblongs!, Christopher Mcmanus
Word Squares? No, Oblongs!, Christopher Mcmanus
Word Ways
The Holy Grail of word grids is the elusive ten-square. Squares as a class are the overwhelming focus of word grid study. But squares are only a special case of the generalized word grid universe.
Bananagrams 14, Edmund Conti
Bananagrams 14, Edmund Conti
Word Ways
Bananagrams--anagrams to drive you bananas--consist of rhymed couplets, each one containing a pair of anagrams to be solved. One of the rhyming words will always be an anagram, and the couplet itself will offer clues to help solve the anagram. Answers can be found in Answers and Solutions are the end of this issue.
Middle Names, William Webster
Middle Names, William Webster
Word Ways
For the purpose of this article, a middle name is a given name that can be centered in a dictionary word-the longer, the better. Two-letter names such as ED, AL, and JO can always be embedded (feEDer, deALer, banJOist), and I do not consider them further. Below is a type collection of nearly one hundred middle names of three or more letters; no doubt readers can add more. Six-letter names are hard to embed, and there is only one-seven-letter example. Often, one encounters agonizing near-misses like sCARLet, ePAULet and mAGNESia. I am indebted to the editor for adding a number …
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.
Three New Transdeletion Pyramids, Richard Sabey
Three New Transdeletion Pyramids, Richard Sabey
Word Ways
In "Two New Transdeletion Pyramids" in the May 1988 Word Ways, the editor gives two 17-letter transdeletion pyramids found by Kyle Corbin, the first of which consists of words from either Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language. I believe that a word found in Webster's Third is better than one found in Webster's Second but not the Third, because (whatever the faults of the Third or the merits of the Second), the Third superseded the Second.Accordingly, I pass on three 17-letter transdeletion pyramids consisting entirely of words in the Third or inflections implied by the Third, assuming that …
The Dictionary Of Wordplay, Richard Lederer
The Dictionary Of Wordplay, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
I wouldn't be a rich letterer if I didn't tell you that the acronimble Peter Pangram who put together this dictionary is an alphabet male, paronamazing pun gent, alliterary anagrammarian, morpheme addict, onomatopetic onomasticator, his Lexcellency who lives in a Camel lot of palindromedaries, Uncle Rebus, and Charader of the Lost Art.
Stubborn Rhymes, Ove Michaelsen
Stubborn Rhymes, Ove Michaelsen
Word Ways
It is said that there is no word in English that rhymes with MONTH, but GRUNTH, an alternate spelling of granth, rhymes perfectly is one of its pronunciations. Other rhymes for that word are millionth, billionth, trillionth and zillionth.
Designer Isomorphs, Susan Thorpe
Designer Isomorphs, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
It is twenty years since isomorphs were given significant room in Word Ways; "A Pattern Word Quiz" by Mary and Harry Hazard, appears in the November 1980 issue. In view of this time lapse, readers might find it useful to be reminded of the terminology associated with isomorphs.
A Bombastic Christmas: Discussion... Food!, Ara Shirinyan
A Bombastic Christmas: Discussion... Food!, Ara Shirinyan
Word Ways
With foods of all kind giving that brown-wood dining room pulpit a slap of color, our family got into a jovial mood, drinks in hands, stomachs with nothing to complain about, fully conscious of a scrupulous and scrumptious gala awaiting all of us. So first, a full classification of our food, stuffs that chart a sort of map that shows a trail to Christ's kingdom.
Ladders Summary, Rex Gooch
Ladders Summary, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
As the number of letters in a word decreases, the number of ladders increase sharply, despite there being only one-tenth the number of four-letter words as there are ten-letter words. The sharply increased number means that more and more restrictions may be applied but still ladders can be found. The following table summarizes this effect. Looking down a column, it can be seen that decreasing the word length by one multiplies the number of ladders of a given type by hundreds of times.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 34 Issue 2
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 34 Issue 2
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.