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Poems- Part Ii, John Bannon

Word Ways

A collection of poems.

Equation Words, . Anil

Word Ways

In equation words, the letter values (A=1 to Z=26) can be punctuated into an equation without rearrangement as CAB (3=1+2) or ADD (1x4=4).

Search For A Minimal Panlist, . Anil

Word Ways

A PANLIST is a list that contains the alphabet. It's like a pangram but counts number of items, not letters, and the goal is to find the list with the fewest.

An Alphabet Of Three-L Lamas, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Most people are familiar wit Ogden Nash's doggerel connecting priests, beasts and three-alarm fires (an updated version below). In the November 2012 Word Ways, Solomon Golomb created five L-variants; here is a gallimaufry covering most of the alphabet:

Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

The back cover and instructions to authors for this issue.

Convertible English, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

Because modern English has shed most of the flexional endings that distinguish grammatical functions, many of our words possess the lively ability to rail-jump from one part of speech to another without any basic change in form. This happy facility, variously called conversion or function shift, endows our vocabulary with vitality, power and a prolific source of new words.

On The Definition Of A Vowel, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

On page kd of Opperlans! Taal -& letterkunde (Querido, 2003), Battus (the pen name of Hugo Brandt Corstius) presents a new way to define a vowel in the Dutch language. He originally presented this argument in the journal Spektator (1972). The following is an adaptation to the English language.

The Mankurt Remembers : The Politics Of Language In Kazakhstan., Paige Brewer

College of Arts & Sciences Senior Theses

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The Tower Of Babel Account: A Linguistic Consideration, Dallin D. Oaks

Faculty Publications

The biblical account of the Tower of Babel has generally not been taken seriously by scholars in historical linguistics, but what are regarded by some as problematic aspects of the account may actually relate to claims that have been incorrectly attributed to the account. In fact, the account may not be reporting a sudden· and immediate confusion of languages, or even a sequence in which a confusion of languages led to a scattering of the people. Indeed, a close examination of the account seems to allow an interpretation of events that is compatible with what linguists have observed about [how …

Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

• Senior reading RESCHEDULED

Writing & Linguistics News, Georgia Southern University

Writing & Linguistics News (2012-2022)

• Georgia Southern Writing Project receives SEED grant

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles and quizzes in this issue.

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Transnational Education Systems In Morocco: How Language Of Instruction Shapes Identity, Sarah Robertson

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The North African country of Morocco boasts a rich history of linguistic diversity, which was further compounded with the introduction of the French language under the protectorate in 1912. Through a complicated mix of Fus’ha (Modern Standard Arabic), Darija (Moroccan Dialectical Arabic), French (historically the language of the protectorate), and most recently, the introduction of English, the system of education with respect to linguistic instruction is left in a bind. The divide between the public schools, private schools, traditional Arabic schools, and well-­‐ established French schools only grows, as the Moroccan Education system hurts for change. If language shapes education, …

Surveying Appalachia: Language Change And Perception, James Daniel Hasty, Becky Childs

ASA Annual Conference

This study investigates language change in Appalachia through preliminary results of a web-based survey of university students in southern Appalachia. The survey presents traditional phonetic, lexical, and morpho-syntactic Appalachian English features and asks respondents to report their use of these features and their observation of other speakers in their area including the discourse situation. Appalachian English is often thought of as a traditional form of speech associated with the older generation (Dial 1972, Montgomery 1979, Wolfram & Christian 1976). However, within the past two generations the social and linguistic landscape of Appalachia has greatly changed. Communities that lived mainly in …

New Faculty Learning Community Mapping New Worlds Of Interdisciplinary Enquiry, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Opie Students Enjoy Bowling Night, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Workshop Helps International Students About To Start Classes, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Freshman Composition For Business Students Arrives Via Ibooks, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Community Invited To Celebrate Opie Graduation, Feb 13, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Alphabetic Insertions In Five-Letter Palindromes, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

In "A Palindromic Alphabetic Insertion" (WW, Nov. 1982), we displayed a set of 3-letter palindromes of the form A-A, covering every combination from AAA, chief signet-bearer in the land of Kens, under the Egyptian king Aspalut, through to AZA, a male given name of Hebrew origin meaning "the noble."

"Another Palindromic Insertion" (WW, Aug 1992) explored the letter set A--A, giving examples for all but three of the double-letter alphabetic insertions, from AAAA, a Tahitian interjection of laughter or ridicule, to AZZA, a wadi in Iran. Examples have now been found for the missing combinations.

Looking For The Longest Insider Word, Jim Puder

Word Ways

The notion that physical objects may sometimes best be hidden by being left in plain sight, but camouflaged or disguised in some way, was famously propounded by Edgar Allan Poe in his celebrated short story, "The Purloined Letter." A wordplay incarnation of this idea is found in the fabrication of "insider" sentences, sentences akin to charade sentences in which occult non-sentence words are spelled out in consecutive letters of the sentence, albeit usually broken up into two or more parts by the sentence's word breaks and/or punctuation.

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 48, Number 1

Word Ways

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

Knight-Graphable Words, Tristan Miller, Mike Keith

Word Ways

Imagine an arbitrarily large chessboard where some of the squares are labelled with distinct letters of the alphabet. A word is said to be knight-graphable (NG) if there exists some labeling such that a knight can spell out the word by starting on the square labelled with its first letter, then making a valid move to the square labelled with its second letter, and so on until the square labelled with the last letter is reached.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Medusa, Hailey Mohr

Word Ways

A poem.

"P" Nuts, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

In the matching quiz that follows, twenty clues for targeted words have been supplied in each of two columns. Those in Column B can be manufactured from their appropriate counterparts in Column A by inserting the "P" into their interiors.

Palindromising The Days And Months, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

Near the beginning of Jim Puder's palindromic poem "The Devil's Dyad" in his article "Lycanthropus Palindromis" (WW, May 1998), the names Monday, Wednesday and Saturday are used in the second part of "Two Palindrome Recreations" (WW, Aug 2012), Jim cleverly works the months into individual palindromes.

After transposing the days and months (WW Aug 2014), here is my attempt at palindromizing them.

King's Moves In The Periodic Table, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Playing with the names and symbols of the chemical elements has been a continuing theme in Word Ways. The first issue of Word Ways (back in February 1968) carried an item, An Elemental Problem, which quizzed readers with transposals of the names of 20 elements. Over the years, other articles have explored further transposals, transadditions and transdeletions, and so on. My articles of February 2002 and May 2006 investigated the existence of words and names spelled out when the symbols for chemical elements were spelled out in one continuous stream of letters.