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Definitive Anagrams: Q-R, . Anil

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Continued from and as in February.

Jane Austen's Most Improbable Acrostic, Walt Quader

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No abstract available.

English Words Spelled The Same But Pronounced Differently, James F. Carley

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For many years I have collected about 100 such words.

There are at least two types of homographs. Most frequently encountered are Type 1, in which words of closely related meanings perform as different parts of speech when pronounced differently.

More Ovine Resilience, A. Ross Eckler

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The February 2008 issue of Word Ways presents "Mary Had a Little Lamb" written under a large number of literary constraints.Here are a further number.

Overlaps Part 2, Susan Thorpe

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In the first of the letter overlap arrangements below, the offspring are obtained from the parent word by reading from L to R. However, unlike the L to R arrangements in Overlaps Part 1, the offspring from the end of the parent word >1 precedes the offspring from the beginning of the parent word >. The pairs of offspring form a phrase-like configuration or are related in some way.

Aptonyms, Alain Zalmanski

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No abstract available

Palindrome Aesthetics And Competitions, Mark Saltveit

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A summary of the first annual SymmyS Awards for outstanding palindrome achievement.

Kickshaws, David Morice

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A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Magic-Spellers, Jeremiah Farrell

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The solution to a puzzle from the February issue.

Johnson Solids, Darryl Francis

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I like lists-in fact, I love lists. I like lists of words, such as the chemical elements, the days of the week, the months of the year, the letters of the Greek alphabet, the countries of the world, US state capitals, Oscar-winning films, the names of the stations on London's Underground railway, the complete discography of Elvis Presley-I could go on. And as many Word Ways readers will be aware, I like transposing items from those lists.

Been There, Pun That! Wordplay In Real-Life Situations, Don Hauptman

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One fine day recently, I spotted in the news a reference to an organization a friend works with. I emailed the item to her along with a note: "Aren't these 'your people'?"

She confirmed my hunch and added that she had passed the information along to her colleagues. I then riposted, "Clearly, you practice the ancient biblical maxim: 'Let thy people know'!"

In two previous Word Ways articles (February 2006 and February 2012), I discussed the art of using puns in everyday situations. Both were festooned with examples from my own experience.

Ohs And Ahs, Steve Kahan

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A collection of alphabetically-arranged letter quartets are offered below, each of which admits a rearrangement that will yield a pair of five-letter words when an "A" and an "O" are inserted in the same location.

Anagram Quiz 10, . Anil

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A quiz.

The Alice Cipher, Ashley Dale

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Lewis Carroll loved ciphers. Between 1858 and 1868 he invented four and recorded them in his diary: two matrix ciphers and two polyalphabetic ciphers: the Telegraph Cipher and the Alphabet Cipher. He submitted the latter two for publication, and personally used them to write letters to his child friends.

Pessimal Spelling Alphabets, Tristan Miller

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A spelling alphabet (also known as a phonetic alphabet or a telephone alphabet) is a set of words which are used to stand for letters of the alphabet; they're typically used when spelling out words over the telephone or in other noisy or low-bandwidth environments.

Punk Whiz 21, . Anil

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A quiz.

Answers And Solutions

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Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.

Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors and back cover.

Gerunding, Ron Singer

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A poem.

Confused Alternades-1, Steve Kahan

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Just to reminisce a bit, and alternade is a word which can be divided into two smaller ones when every other letter is considered.

Colloquy

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A collection of responses to previously published articles.

A Grammatical Paradigm, Alexia Polacheck

Spring 2013, Kuhn's Philosophy of Science

Avram Noam Chomsky is known for his work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for his political pursuits, and most importantly, for his theories in the discipline of linguistics. Chomsky linguistic pursuits aimed to answer the following linguistic studies: how a person learns and develops a language, how a person structures and understands a sentence, and what the purpose of linguistics is as a whole. His theories dramatically changed the linguistic paradigm. Due to this change, this paper also attempts to illustrate the correlation between scientific philosopher Thomas Kuhn’s belief in ‘paradigm shifts’ and the subsequent change in linguistic thought spurred …

The Development Of Differential Object Marking In Spanish-English Bilingual Children, Mariluz Ortiz Vergara

Open Access Theses

In monolingual development, the acquisition of differential object marking (DOM) is completed by three years of age (Rodríguez- Mondoñedo, 2008). However, among bilingual speakers, the development and use of the marker at a young age is less predictable. Spanish marks animate and specific direct objects with the preposition-a; English in contrast does not. Based on previous studies documenting transfer in areas where Spanish and English differ, it was predicted that bilingual children would experience difficulties with the use of the preposition both in matrix and left dislocated sentences (CLLD) (Montrul, 2004, Montrul & Bowles, 2009). This study tested 14 simultaneous …

A Morphological Study Of Drug Brand Names, Celina M. Williamson

Honors Theses and Capstones

No abstract provided.

Phonological Adaptations Of English Loanwords In Turkish, Rachel Beel, Jennifer Felder

Other Undergraduate Scholarship

When trying to understand the phonological system of a language (the sounds used in speech), what are some of the ways to figure out the patterns of an unfamiliar language? The way that borrowed or loanwords (words taken from one language and used in another) are pronounced in a language reveals much about the language’s phonology. The phonological system of Turkish has accommodated for starkly different syllable structures when incorporating modern English words into this contrasting language.

A personal survey of Turkish syllable structure has revealed how native speakers of Turkish cope with the phonological features of borrowed English words …

The Dirty Third: Contributions Of Southern Hip Hop To The Study Of Regional Variation Within African American English, Jennifer Bloomquist, Isaac Hancock

Africana Studies Faculty Publications

While there is well documented evidence of certain supra-regional features in African American English (AAE) phonology and morphosyntax (for example, see Labov 1972; Rickford 1999; Baugh 2000; Green 2002), recent trends in the study of linguistic variation suggest that the homogeneity of the variety has been largely overstated (Mallinson & Wolfram 2002; Friedland 2003; Wolfram 2003). For the most part, contemporary AAE influences on mainstream language have originated from varieties spoken in the northeast and on the west coast which have evolved independently of one another over the past forty years, and which vary in significant ways from southern AAE; …

Sexigraphy, A. Ross Eckler

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The meaning of a word - its linguistic essence, so to speak- is encapsulated in its dictionary definition. Can one learn more about a word by repeating this process? In "Dictionary Symphony" in the August 1990 issue, Dave Morice proposed replacing the essential words in a definition (typically the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs) with their definitions, to create a second-level definition that would enhance the first-level one. In turn, the words used in the second-level definition can each be replaced with their definitions, and so on.

A New 6x6x6 Word Cube, Barry Fagan

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A word puzzle.

Punk Whiz 19, . Anil

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A Pun Quiz.

The Copala Triqui Auxiliary Construction For Emotional And Psychological Predicates, George Aaron Broadwell

Anthropology Faculty Scholarship

Copala Triqui has a construction in which predicates of emotion and psychological state appear with one of two special auxiliary verbs, derived historically from verbs meaning 'see' and 'look'. This paper details the constraints on the syntax of the emotion auxiliary construction and contrasts it with the ordinary verbal syntax of the language. (Ethnologue code TRC)