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What Are The Odds X Is An Anagram Of Y?, Michael Keith
What Are The Odds X Is An Anagram Of Y?, Michael Keith
Word Ways
In a recent Word Ways article, "Celebrity One-Word Anagrams", the problem of finding famous (or even not-so-famous) people whose first and last names can be anagrammed into a single word was discussed. This raises questions of the form: how many people with N-letter combined names might we expect to encounter, in order to find one whose name is a single-word anagram? In this article I present some answers to this and other similar questions.
Another Mary Sonnet, Michael Keith
Another Mary Sonnet, Michael Keith
Word Ways
Dave Morice's sonnetized Mary in the May 2000 Kickshaws inspired me to transpose the letters of Shakespearean Sonnet 143 into an approximation to "Mary Had a Little Lamb". As can be seen, the subject of Sonnet 143 also involves domestic animals!
Near-Alternating Vowels And Consonants, A. Ross Eckler
Near-Alternating Vowels And Consonants, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
There exist 1024 (2^10) different patterns of vowels and consonants in ten-letter words. Among these 178 have no more than two consonants of two vowels in a row. These are the ones for which it is most likely that examples can be found. The following collection of words form Webster's Second Edition lists 175; can readers fill in the three missing patterns, or find more common words for the others?
Ten-Letter Word Ladders, Rex Gooch
Ten-Letter Word Ladders, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
In my article "Near-Ideal Nine Letter Word Ladders" in the August 2000 Word Ways I stated six criteria for a Connoisseur's Ladders: the technical criteria of changing all words in the minimum number of steps (in sequence), and the aesthetic ones of familiar words with apposite meanings. I found about 50 ladders which meet some of the technical criteria, and perhaps none which met the aesthetic ones, though BRAWNIEST-TWINKLERS might be regarded as amusing.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.
Labeling A List With Unique Identifiers, A. Ross Eckler
Labeling A List With Unique Identifiers, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Suppose that one wishes to replace words in a list by abbreviations in order to save space. If one allows abbreviations of variable length, a very simple rule is: use as many letters as needed to ensure that a word is not confused with any other word. For example, the states Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware... can be replaced by ALAB, ALAS, ARI , ARK, CA, COL, CON, D...
Indian Givers: Amerindian State Names, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Indian Givers: Amerindian State Names, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
Americans have wiped off the map many of the aboriginal names, but the names of geographical features that cannot be owned by individuals, such as those of mountains and great rivers, have often been left with their Amerindian names (sometimes mangled by later arrivals). Here are the Amerindian origins of some US states. Can you name the states? (Indiana is not included, nor is the land of the Utes).
A Transaddition Ancestry, Richard Sabey
A Transaddition Ancestry, Richard Sabey
Word Ways
In the November 1992 and May 1993 Kickshaws, Peter Newby wrote of a transaddition ancestry where each woman gave her daughter a name which was a transdeletion of her own, "I" being the end of the line. At least so he says, but, if they named their daughters that way, Brenda Eva Nellie's mother was not Brenda Elvira Rene!
Katie And Jay, An Odious Essay, Nick Montfort
Katie And Jay, An Odious Essay, Nick Montfort
Word Ways
This alphonetic tale of Katie and Jay described fornication and violent death. Children should read instead William Steig's excellent illustrated works C D B and C D C?
Kickshaws, Dave Morice
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 33 Issue 2
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 33 Issue 2
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Bananagrams 9, Edmund Conti
Bananagrams 9, 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 to be an anagram and the couplet itself will offer clues to help solve the anagram. Answers can be found in Answers and Solutions at the end of the issue.
The Dispatchful Byeworkman, Michael Keith
The Dispatchful Byeworkman, Michael Keith
Word Ways
In this article we introduce the Dispatchful Byeworkman, a fellow closely related to the Gunpowdery Blacksmith (who is, as readers of Word Ways are well aware, the longest Unabridged Merriam-Webster two-word isogram). By contrast the Dispatchful Byeworkman is an example of the longest two-word isogram crossword, with 21 letters in the two words but only 20 distinct letters (diagram at left below).
Celebrity One-Word Anagrams, Michael Keith
Celebrity One-Word Anagrams, Michael Keith
Word Ways
Did you know that guitar legend ERIC CLAPTON is a NARCOLEPTIC? Or that singer BRITNEY SPEARS is a member of the PRESBYTERIANS? Or that actress MEG RYAN hails from GERMANY? Well, actually, such observations are only true loglogically; these are examples of famous people whose combined first and last names can be anagrammed into a single English word.
Sequential Snakes And Ladders, Rex Gooch
Sequential Snakes And Ladders, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
In a private communication I recently received an example and a challenge. The example was to change COLD to BARE by changing each letter in turn (all words to be valid), then to return to COLD in the same fashion: COLD BOLD BALD BARD BARE CARE CORE COLE COLD. I have previously called such sequences of there-and-back (regardless of the order of change) Snakes and Ladders, so I termed these sequences Sequential Snakes and Ladders, or SSLs for short.
Presidents, Pairs And Primes, Monte J. Zerger
Presidents, Pairs And Primes, Monte J. Zerger
Word Ways
Which of the two major presidential candidates will be elected on the first "2's Day" in November of the year 2000, and take office on the 20th day of the following year? Linguistically and numerically, Bush seems to have a definite edge. His last name begins with B, the second letter of the alphabet, and if elected he would be the second George Bush to serve.
Magic Square Magic, Jeremiah Farrell
Magic Square Magic, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
I had heard the rumors for years. Somewhere, deep in the back woods, there existed an enclave of mentalists with some clever new prediction tricks. In fact, I finally learned that the group, the mysterious MOUSTERIAN cult, is led by my good friend Edith, known to readers of Word Ways as Scrubwoman Edith. Her last appearance of these pages was in the August 1999 issue in "Edith Plays Word Treblecross".
Palindromania: Do Nod, Roland A. Duerksen
Palindromania: Do Nod, Roland A. Duerksen
Word Ways
In this companion article to "Palindromania: Don't Nod", the reader is invited to complete the following palindromic sentences (with all vowels except Y identified). Each palindrome is clued by a rhymed couplet, with capitalized words are labeled with an asterisk. Answers can be found in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue.
New Palindromes, Susan Thorpe
New Palindromes, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
If Malayalam is typed backwards, malayala M, it is different from Malayalam. When the word is spoken, the first letter 'a' is short but the final 'a' is long, which means that it also sounds different backwards. Because visual and phonetic discrepancies are rife amongst the words we unhesitatingly accept as palindromes, is there any question why we should not accept dowod (Polish: proof), rugur (Icelandic: rye), or ucuru (Turkish: flying: volatile) as palindromes? Unlike these three words, the palindromes below have no stress or sound accents, and all but the 2nd and 4th are new to Word Ways.
Ed's Palindromic Trickery, John E. Connett
Ed's Palindromic Trickery, John E. Connett
Word Ways
The Nov 1998 Kickshaws presented two palindromic poems starting and ending with ED I HIDE, plus one consisting of ED, I HID A...-AD, I HIDE. In this article we analyze their structure in detail, and also exhibit a number of palindromic variations that Ed can exploit.
An Anecdote: Agile Acrobat Avoids Accident, Lionel R. Simard
An Anecdote: Agile Acrobat Avoids Accident, Lionel R. Simard
Word Ways
Alma Anderson, an avid American amateur acrobat, asked admiringly, "Are all Asians as agile as Anita Akihito?"
Room For Expansion, Enoch Haga
Room For Expansion, Enoch Haga
Word Ways
How many words are possible using the 26 letters of the Roman alphabet? I've made some speculative calculations and I believe provide a preliminary answer to this question. Since languages other than English make use of the Roman alphabet, and probably more Romanization will occur in the future, my numerical estimates include their usage. But I will focus on English, and assume that English alone may look to the entire pool of possible words as needed for future expansion.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.
Aeinst +1 Words, Darryl Francis
Aeinst +1 Words, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
HEALTH WARNING: This article could damage your Scrabble vocabulary.
Borrowed English, Dan Tilque
Borrowed English, Dan Tilque
Word Ways
English is known as a great borrowing language. Among words in the dictionary, roughly 25 percent are native English words, the rest derived from other languages. But how many languages has English borrowed from? The way to find out is to compile a list of words derived from as many different languages as possible.
Kickshaws, Dave Morice
120 Supervocalic Permutations, Eric W. Chaikin
120 Supervocalic Permutations, Eric W. Chaikin
Word Ways
Long shrift has been given recently to AEIOU words. In the past, AEIOU words or phrases have included names and places as well. Perusing the neighborhood, one might spy a liquor market, customer parking, a public storage facility, or perhaps an ad for Austin Powers. To generalize the concept I introduce the term supervocalic to