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The Alphabet Ruler, Susan Thorpe
The Alphabet Ruler, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Assigning each letter its positional value in the alphabet (A=1, B=2, etc.), adding the 26 values (351) and dividing by the number of letters in the alphabet (26) gives the Average Letter Value (ALV) of the alphabet (13.5). Similarly, dividing the total letter value of a word by the number of letters in the word gives the ALV of that word.
Letter Spirals, Michael Keith
Letter Spirals, Michael Keith
Word Ways
This recreation was inspired by the famous mathematical discovery of S. Ulam: if the numbers 1,2,3,4... are arranged in a spiral on a square grid, unexpected diagonal patterns appear when one looks at the prime numbers. What happens, I wondered, if we do a similar thing with the alphabet, or other sequences of letters, and look for words instead of numbers?
Miami Words, Susan Thorpe
Miami Words, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
In February 1970, Kickshaws editor David Silverman challenged the readers of Word Ways to find words such as ONION in which the letters preceding and succeeding a single core letter (in this case, the letter I) are the same. These were christened Heads 'n' Trails words by John Ferguson of Maryland. Silverman's idea was to find 26 of these words, each one having a different core letter. The exercise was dully completed, largely by Josepha Byrne in the May 1970 issue and Murray Pearce in the August 1971 one, using words of various lengths including ADA, EDGED, HOTSHOT and OUTSPOUTS.
Palindromania: Don't Nod, Roland A. Duerksen
Palindromania: Don't Nod, Roland A. Duerksen
Word Ways
In this article, the reader is invited to complete the following palindromic sentences (with all vowels except Y identified). Each palindrome is clued by a rhymed couplet, and capitalized words are labeled with an asterisk. Answers can be found in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue.
Kickshaws, Dave Morice
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 33 Issue 1
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 33 Issue 1
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Aeinrst Transposals On The Internet, Darryl Francis
Aeinrst Transposals On The Internet, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
In the August 1998 issue of Word Ways, I embarked on "The AEINRST Problem", a wide-ranging search for transposals of the letters AEINRST. In that article, I presented transposals for 155 different sequences of these letters (counting RAINEST and RAINE ST as the same sequence). Since then I have discovered additional transposals in dribs and drabs. Four of these were parceled up in the November 1999 Colloquy: ARTESIN, ATIN-RES, ENTAIRS and S'INTREA, bringing the number of transposals to 159.
Ultrapalindromes, John E. Connett
Ultrapalindromes, John E. Connett
Word Ways
Sometimes, the first example one sees of a given type of wordplay becomes the ideal for all that follow. I showed a collection of palindromes to a friend who somehow had never encountered them before. In addition to ABLE WAS I ERE I SAW ELBA and RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR, the collection included TEN ANIMALS I SLAM IN A NET and A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL -- PANAMA.
The Pangram Film Festival, Douglas Fink
The Pangram Film Festival, Douglas Fink
Word Ways
Although it will be my first year there, the Pangram Film Festival is in its seventh year. It is not a place where films are tested on unsuspecting audiences or premieres are launched in attempts to get distributors and garner critical praise. But the films, which range from recent releases to early black and whites, and run the gamut from classic to cruddy camp, have a theme you won't find at any other film festival. The titles, combined, form a holoalphabetic pangram.
Identifying Authors By Lexicostatistics: 1, Enoch Haga
Identifying Authors By Lexicostatistics: 1, Enoch Haga
Word Ways
In an effort to test a theory that a specific author's identity can be determined from a writing sample of sufficient length, I have begun by gathering statistics from a chapter taken from one of my own books. These statistics include number of total words, number of different words, number of words of different length from 1 to 16, letter frequency, bigram frequency, trigram frequency, and some comparisons from published sources.
Further Cracks In The Pi-Code, Michael Keith
Further Cracks In The Pi-Code, Michael Keith
Word Ways
In "Cracking the Pi-Code" in the November 1999 issue of Word Ways, David Morice discussed the recreation of looking for words in the decimal digits of pi (3.14159265358979...) with the 10 digits replaced by some set of 10 different letters, as in a substitution cipher.
The Unkindest Cut, Rex Gooch
The Unkindest Cut, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
It seems anatomically true that if we cut off the end of a male, a female might result. This is supported by folklore, in which boys are made from sticks and snails and puppy dog's tails, which we can cut off (with a carving knife?). Everyone knows of Norma(n), Fran(k), Olive(r) and Julia(n): here are many names that could belong to boys, which, upon losing a single letter, produce a name that could belong to a girl!
Isms Taler, William Webster
Isms Taler, William Webster
Word Ways
Nailer Later saw cheating na retax fro het Shingle stunted, ta Alined Bestrew Cholos. Eth slipup antler eth bets palsy fro HET Sword Mega.
Word Kayles And Dawsonword, Richard Sabey
Word Kayles And Dawsonword, Richard Sabey
Word Ways
In "Wordnim and Grundyword" in the Aug 1993 Word Ways, and "Edith Plays Word Treblecross" in the Aug 1999 issue, Jeremiah Farrell, David Wright and Christopher Mihelich show how various nim-like games can be cast in the form of word games. This article casts two more such games in a similar mould.
Bananagrams 8, Edmund Conti
Bananagrams 8, 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. The following anagrams are all taken from Rex Gooch's article "Swapping Terminal Letters" in the November 1999 Word Ways. Answers can be found in Answers and Solutions at the end of the issue.
The Alphabet Race, A. Ross Eckler
The Alphabet Race, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Visualize the 26 letters of the alphabet lined up like horses at the starting gate of an immensely-long racetrack. One minute after the start, letters O, N, and E each advance one mile but the remaining 23 have not budged. During the second minute, T, W and O each advance one mile, placing O in the lead at two miles and W, E and T tied for second at one mile each. During the third minute, E advances two miles, while H, T and R advance one mile, placing E in the lead of three miles.
Elemental, My Deat Watson, A. Ross Eckler
Elemental, My Deat Watson, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
There are 103 chemical elements which can be identified by one-letter or two-letter abbreviations, listed below.
Long Palindromes From A To Z, Jeff Grant
Long Palindromes From A To Z, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
Since The Palindromicon was produced back in 1991, Dan Tilque and I have been searching for new 'dromes in an effort to increase the collection from its original 2332 specimens up to 4004. This target has now almost been reached, and we hope to have Palindromicon 2 published in the appropriate year 2002.
Upper Typewriter Row, Nick Montfort
Upper Typewriter Row, Nick Montfort
Word Ways
I tutor you, reporter: to write, wipe out type. Out, out, type! Retire your repertoire, Totter type--teeter your type tower. Put up your weir! Tie your tripwire! Rewire your typewriter!
Typewriter Words: All Fingers Used, Rex Gooch
Typewriter Words: All Fingers Used, Rex Gooch
Word Ways
In "Typewriter Words" in the November Word Ways, Mike Keith define isofinger words as those in which each finger is used at most once (fo eight-letter words, each finger used exactly once). I find the ter isofinger unfortunate, since iso- means "equal" when the opposite I intended. As possible alternatives, I propose hertofinger (somewhat un gainly), heterodigital (hybrid components), or pandigital (in my opinion the biggest).
New Categories Of Typewriter Words, Susan Thorpe
New Categories Of Typewriter Words, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
In the November 1999 Word Ways, Michael Keith introduced Misplaced-Hand words, in which one hand is in the wrong place on the keyboard. When both hands are offset, I call these Typewriter Shifts, defined by the direction (right or left) and the number of keys offset. For example, in a Left Shift PIMP - 5 = TEXT, and in a Right Shift REDS + 6 = POLK (OED).
The Star Wars Anagrams, Mike Morton
The Star Wars Anagrams, Mike Morton
Word Ways
With the return to theaters of "Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace", I got to thinking about the meaning of the film. Critics like to talk about how George Lucas draws on the work of Joseph Campbell, whether the Force is God, and so on. But it turns out the meanings run much deeper. Here are various topical collections of anagrams constructed from these 32 letters.
Seventeen Synonyms Of Semordnilap, James Puder
Seventeen Synonyms Of Semordnilap, James Puder
Word Ways
One finds in the published literature on palindromes and their ilk an odd disparity: whereas there is presently only one name of any significance in the language for a palindrome, there exists a bewildering plethora of names for the palindrome's sibling, the word (or words) which forms a different word (or words) when read in reverse, an item which forms a different word (or words) when read in reverse, an item hereinafter referred to generically as a half-palindrome, to select a neutral term. Even among the current majority of those who favor some form of the word REVERSAL, there is …
The Rise And Fall Of A Wall And A Dialect: Observations Of Shifting Linguistic Behavior Among Former East Berliners, Anja Vogel
UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations
After the dividing wall between East and West Berlin fell in 1989 many changes occurred on what was formerly the eastern side of the city. Polls taken soon after found out that the East Berliners' excitement about the reunification vanished quickly. One of the more prominent---but largely ignored---new problems was the linguistic barrier that had developed between East and West during the forty years of separation; The people in and around Berlin speak a regional dialect, Berlinish. Unbeknownst to most Berliners, the dialect took on a vastly different symbolic meaning for the people in the West than it did for …
Pc Madness, O. V. Michaelsen
Pc Madness, O. V. Michaelsen
Word Ways
The past decade has given rise to the amusement of creating politically-correct definitions. Merriam-Webster researchers have found the term "politically correct" in H.V. Morton's book In The Steps of Saint Paul, (1936). It was reported that the term was used in a 1793 US Supreme Court decision.
The Pi Code, Michael Keith
The Pi Code, Michael Keith
Word Ways
Martin Gardner's fictional Doctor Matrix used to say that, property interpreted, the number pi (the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, whose decimal expansion begins 3.14159265897932384626...) contains the entire history of mankind. In this article I give some results of looking at pi in a relatively new way: as an infinite string of letters derived from its expansion in base 26 or base 27.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 32 Issue 4
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 32 Issue 4
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.