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Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors and the back cover.

Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

• Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

Jarvis Is Executive Director Of Language Learning, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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No abstract provided.

Political Science Major Says Do Not Fear Cancer, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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No abstract provided.

Three More Doublets, Daniel W. Galef

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A collection of doublets.

Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

• Amanda Eyre Ward campus visit & The Harbuck Scholarship reading and reception

We, The Fans, Lindsey Clouse

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Why does any sports fan say "we" when talking about her team? What, exactly, is happening in her mind, on a conscious or subconscious level, when she says it? My search for the answer led me through a number of scholarly sources, and finally to conduct my own research.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 48, Number 3

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

Recent Poems: The Elephant's Lithe Proboscis, Ron Singer

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A poem

Alphametics, Steven Kahan

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A mathematical game.

Alakazarca!, . Anil

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A game and explanation.

Colloquy

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A collection of responses to previously published articles.

The Nautonym Story, Susan Thorpe

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This story began over a year ago on page 106 of the May 2014 issue of Word Ways when Anil challenged me to find what he called NAUTONYMS, "sounded but not spelled tautonyms like RETREAT".

Norwich Bumstead Puzzles, Jeremiah Farrell

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Answers to the two back cover puzzles.

Anagram Quiz 16, . Anil

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A quiz.

Isomorph Pairings, Susan Thorpe

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In my Designer Isomorphs (WW May 2001), the various different Isomorph genres included a few Isomorph pairings. Here are more.

Self-Defining Numbers, . Anil

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Using anagrams to define number words rarely succeeds because the meanings are so precise. Frustrated, I've explored five alternative word play devices for self-defining numbers.

Multiple Switch, Andy Liu

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Readers are challenged to find or construct other examples of multiple switch, involving the eight parts of speech.

Extractions, Susan Thorpe

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A word has one letter (any letter) extracted from it to make another word. This word, in turn, has a letter (any letter) extracted from it to make another word. Such extracting is continued until a 2-letter word remains.

Ichthyornithonymy, Tristan Miller

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Below is a list of animal names. Fourteen of them are genuine names of birds, fourteen are genuine names of fish, one is shared by both a bird and a fish, and one is completely fictitious. Can you correctly classify all thirty?

We Present A Present, . Anil, Jeff Grant

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The present present we present is an unnamed class of same-word homonyms we dub FOOLERS: words of the same root, spelling and basic or approximate meaning that fool us by differing in pronunciation in different forms, like the present and past tenses of "read'.

Names In The News...And News In The Names, Don Hauptman

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More original spoonerisms and transposition puns.

Its All Greek To Me, Susan Thorpe

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There are 24 letters in the Greek Alphabet:alpha beta gamma delta epsilon eta zeta theta iota kappa lambda mu nu xi omicron pi rho sigma tau upsilon phi chi psi omega. Each of the couplets below includes the names of 2 of these letters. They are not in alphabetical order.

One Hundred Shades Of Ee: Dmitri Borgmann's Dream Comes True, Richard Lederer

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A long time ago in a Word Ways far, far away - November 1978, to be exact - I published "orthograffiti," an article that explored the chasm that stretches between phonology, the way words sound, and orthography, the way words are spelled.

Anagram Quiz 17, . Anil

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A quiz.

Alphabet Poems, Jon Bannon

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A collection of poems.

Disjoint Word Chains, Sean A. Irvine

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The purpose of this note is to investigate the longest disjoint word chains for various other sets of words and to explain the computer-assisted solution of such problems.

Dictating A Letter, Daniel W. Galef

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It is well-known and well-lampooned that crossword puzzles have their own peculiar (and quite so) vocabulary, for reasons of practicality and tradition.

Two-Row Typewriter Words, Darryl Francis

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What are the longest words typeable using the keys on the top and middles rows; similarly, on the top and bottom rows; and then on the middle and bottom rows?

Kamchatka Words - Part 1, Steve Kahan

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A vocabulary quiz.