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Transposing The Days And Months, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

This is an attempt to provide single-word transposals for all the days and months.

It's Kaos, Get Smart!, Stuart Kidd

Word Ways

Following the second world war a little ditty began circulating amongst NATO staff to assist them with the barrage of difficulties, inconsistencies and general chaos in the the spelling and pronunciation of English.

Magic On A Transposal Puzzle, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A solution to the transposal puzzle located on the back cover.

Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

Instructions to authors and back cover.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

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

Four Is The Cosmic Number, Erik Waingarten

Word Ways

Thirteen, eight, five, four, four is the cosmic number.

"Pay No Attention To The Can Behind The Merton" A Gallimaufry Of New Spoonerisms, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

It isn't often that spoonerisms are in the news. But this past May, one made headlines nationally. A New Brunswick, New Jersey, bar owner won a prolonged legal battle over the right to call his establishment Buck Foston. The city, objecting to the name (which refers to the rivalry between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox) denied him a liquor license. A jury decided that his First Amendment rights had been violated and awarded him $1.5 million.

All this trouble for a nonsensical spoonerism! We can do better.

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 47, Number 3

Word Ways

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

Kickshaws

Word Ways

A collection of Linguistic kickshaws.

Three Times Two Is Six, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

The thirty two-letter words displayed below need to be assembled into ten six-letter words in order to justify the arithmetically-correct title of this piece.

Borgmann's "Palindromes" Articles: A Joke Gone Awry?, Jim Puder

Word Ways

Little remembered now are three notable articles on the early history and cultural significance of palindromes which were submitted by Dmitri Borgmann and published under his by-line in the November 1979, February 1980 and May 1980 issues of Word Ways.

Sound Beginnings And Endings, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

This is all to do with the pronunciation of the beginnings and endings of words.

Cubic Logic, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

At the fourth Gathering for Gardner in Atlanta I presented an electronic depiction of a four-dimensional cube on which a magic trick could be performed.

Higher-Order Contronyms, Tristan Miller

Word Ways

A contronym or autontonym is a polysemous word where one of the meanings is the antonym of another-that is, a word which is its own opposite.

Three Doublets, Daniel W. Galef

Word Ways

One of the best in the tradition of Gardner and Lehrer, those who mixed mathematics with language and had endless fun with both, Lewis Carroll invented a now-common type of puzzle known as the word-ladder, but which he dubbed "doublets." Altering one letter at a time, change one word into another.

Always Be A Generous Donor, Or, That's A Wrap!, Daniel W. Galef

Word Ways

A poem.

Juli Acurso Named To Capital One All-America Academic Team, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Of Gangs And Gaggles: Can A Corporation Be Part Of An Association-In-Fact Rico Enterprise? Linguistic, Historical, And Rhetorical Perspectives, Randy D. Gordon

Faculty Scholarship

Over 30 years ago, courts of appeals began to hold that the RICO statute’s definition of association-in-fact enterprise is broad enough to include corporations as constituent members, even though that definition states that such an association is limited to a “group of individuals.” This Article demonstrates why these cases were wrongly decided from a variety of perspectives: linguistic, systemic and consequentialist. It also suggests a strategy for correcting this widespread interpretive error and provides evidence that the Supreme Court may be disposed to agree that the lower courts have uniformly erred.

Linguistics Alum Gives Water Conservation Tips In Bryan, Oh, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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No abstract provided.

Statistical Literacy Among Applied Linguists And Second Language Acquisition Researchers, Shawn Loewen, Elizabeth Lavolette, Le Anne Spino, Mostafa Papi, Jens Schmidtke, Scott Sterling, Dominik Wolff

Language Resource Center

The importance of statistical knowledge in applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA) research has been emphasized in recent publications. However, the last investigation of the statistical literacy of applied linguists occurred more than 25 years ago (Lazaraton, Riggenbach, & Ediger, 1987). The current study undertook a partial replication of this older work by investigating (a) applied linguists’ general experiences with statistics, (b) underlying factors that constitute applied linguists’ knowledge about and attitudes toward statistics, and (c) variables that predict attitudes toward statistics and statistical self-efficacy. Three hundred thirty-one scholars of applied linguistics and SLA completed a questionnaire. Eighty percent …

Times-Journal Summer High School Japanese Program Offered Through Ohio University, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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No abstract provided.

Vinton Daily Opie Offers Go International Deadline June 18, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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No abstract provided.

Woub Linguistics Alum Plans To Expand Jackie O'S Brewing Capacity, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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No abstract provided.

Linguistics Alum Earns International Reading Association Award, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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No abstract provided.

O'Beirne's Mousetrap Game, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A puzzle game.

Swinburne's "Nephelidia", Jim Puder

Word Ways

Conventional literary wisdom has it that Swinburne's "Nephelidia" ("Cloudlets") must have been intended as a parody of its author's own poetic style. Perhaps so - it does, certainly, share a characteristic style of construction with much of his other verse.

Poetic Quiz, Anne Rulon-Miller

Word Ways

A poem.

Shifty Numbers, Dave Morice, . Anil

Word Ways

While probing endless logologico-mathematical esoterica for an article on Extreme Number Names we explored shiftgrams of number names cardinal, ordinal and Roman on Dave's lettershift calculator.

Wordplay / Slipperiness Of Language / N-Tendres, Lew Goldklang

Word Ways

An article on wordplay.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.