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Numerical Rhymes, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

The end of the word CONTRAVENE rhymes with the end of "ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN" (117). The alphabetical total (a=1, b=2 etc) of CONTRAVENE is 117. That is the Numerical Rhymes game! I start off with numbers ending in "1". The "seventies" ...37, 47, 57, etc. were the least friendly, producing no well-known words. The relevant words are given in upper case.

Self-Contained Words, Solomon W. Golomb

Word Ways

How empty is the word empty? Since it contains MT, pronounced 'empty" (in the form of eMpTy), it is "self contained", so empty may not be empty after all.

Village Literacy: Adult Education In Northeastern Kenya, Jodi Heidorn

Senior Honors Theses

The underdevelopment of effective adult literacy programs in Northern Kenya is a problem that must be addressed to meet the needs of a changing generation of nomadic pastoralists. Existing programs must be reevaluated in order to increase their efficiency and incorporate the unique aspects of local cultures into their design. This paper explores the broadening definition of literacy and discusses how there are in fact multiple literacies in any given culture. Next, it examines the history of education in Kenya and the barriers that may be unique to adult literacy programs in Northern Kenya. Also, it examines how changes in …

A Description Of Ternate Malay, Betty Litamahuputty

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Ternate Malay is a local variety of Malay in Ternate, a small island in the Maluku Utara province in eastern Indonesia. The majority of speakers live in Ternate town, where it serves as mother tongue as well as a means of communication between people of various ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. In the last few decades there is a growing scholarly interest in local Malay varieties, particularly in the eastern part of Indonesia. This article is a short description of Ternate Malay based on the idea that words in Ternate Malay receive their meaning in the combination with other words and …

Arts & Humanities News, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities News

• Department of Communication Arts presents second, third DebateWatch events
• Writing and Linguistics offers a slice of pizza for a piece of your mind

Arts & Humanities News, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

• Department of Communication Arts presents second, third DebateWatch events
• Writing and Linguistics offers a slice of pizza for a piece of your mind

Developmental Perspective Into Students' Contextualization Of Problem Solving, Jonathan Bostic, Sean Yee

School of Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications

The purpose of this paper is to investigate students’ contextualization of problem solving, not the problems. This study draws on the naturalistic paradigm and uses a developmental perspective to explore students’ representations and metaphors used during problem solving. Students of comparable abilities employed similar representations, tended to use analogous metaphors during problem solving, and perceived solutions as outside of a problem’s context.

The Mental Lexicon In Students Of Non-Spoken Languages: A Case Study With Ancient Greek And Latin, Randall C. Meister

Student Works

The unique pedagogical circumstances and uses of non-spoken languages (such as Ancient Greek and Latin) offer other facets to current models of L2 mental lexicon, which, up until this point in academic dialogue, have focused on bilinguals, who produce their language. While empirical evidence from an array of studies (see Cielslicka-­Ratajczak, 1994) favors an integrated system of interwoven phonological, semantic, and categorical information all working together to influence production and comprehension, the elements of L2 organization within the context of non-­spoken ancient languages remains underexplored, yet may offer further evidence for the organization of mental L2 lexical. My current study …

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 45, Number 3

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

Long Pair Isograms, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

Darryl Francis's article New Pair Isograms in the February 2012 Word Ways brought back memories from my early days of dabbling with word play. After discovering the beautiful symmetry of words like HORSESHOER and INTESTINES in Language on Vacation (Dmitri Borgmann, 1965), I spend many hours scouring the Oxford English Dictionary for new examples. Imagine my elation on finding CHARACTERETH and INACCIDENTATED.

Careless Feet, Martin Gardner

Word Ways

A poem

Simon: The Genius In My Basement, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

This is the title of an unconventional biography of Simon Norton, occasional Word Ways contributor, written by Alexander Masters, a tenant in a rooming-house owned by Norton who lives in the basement.

Non-Standard Conjugations, Andy Liu

Word Ways

No abstract available

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Two Palindrome Recreations, Jim Puder

Word Ways

As anyone who has ever sincerely tried, yet failed ignominiously, to read all the way through someone else's long list of sentence palindromes has reason to know, the real fun in palindromes lies mainly in their making, not in their reading. Two of the more structured ways of enjoying palindrome composition involve the application of a systematic subject constraint to this already much constrained form. In one, one selects some limited set of related words, such as the names of the U.S. States or presidents, and attempts to use as many as possible in short palindromic passages. In the other, …

Accidental Ouroboros Word Worms In Running Text, Mike Keith

Word Ways

The word worm was introduced to readers of Word Ways by Ross Eckler in an article of the same name in the August 2003 issue (p.13). Word worms are based on the three-dimensional lattice of integer-valued points.

Centerpieces - 1, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

When the letters in each of the twenty words below are appropriately permuted, what results serve as centerpieces of new words which begin and end with the same letter. For example, rearranging the letters of RAINS into RANSI and flanking this centerpiece with a pair of "T"s produces TRANSIT.

A Magic Tour Of Europe, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

The map depicts a reasonably good picture of seven European countries and their connection by six numbered air routes. With the magician's back turned the subject starts in any country and begins his tour by calling out in sequence the numbers of his flights. When he completes his tour to his satisfaction he announces his ending country. The magician can immediately name his starting country and the direct route to return to it.

Worst Case? Cursed Waste! A Passel Of New Spoonerisms, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

A collection of puns.

Triangular Progressions, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

A word puzzle.

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

One-Letter Words: A Dictionary, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Authored by Craig Conley and published in 2005 by HarperCollins, this 232-page book claims that one thousand one-letter words exist. Since there are only 26 letters, this is mathematically impossible; Conley instead presents one thousand different meanings of one-letter words, often with literary citations.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

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

Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

Definitive Anagrams: M-O, . Anil

Word Ways

These anagrams, polyanagrams, palindromes and charades follow the constraints and conventions set out earlier in this series (03-01, 279; 04-274; 05-211).

Anagram Quiz 7, . Anil

Word Ways

A Quiz.

Untranslatable Words In Classical Latin: The Problem With Pius, Keith Alexander Woodell

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

The Romans of the Classical Era (circa 100 B.C.E. to 15 C.E.) had a social, religious, and legal structure that was vastly different from that of modern Western societies. On account of this difference and especially due to the influence of the Christian religion, many Roman concepts have been misunderstood and mistranslated. This thesis analyzes the Latin word pius along with its nominal and adverbial derivatives in ancient literature to try to understand how the concept actually worked in Roman cognition. Perhaps due to the fact that words like pity,' 'pious,' and 'piety' all derive from pius, the way it …

What Kind Of #Communication Is Twitter? A Psycholinguistic Perspective On Communication In Twitter For The Purpose Of Emergency Coordination, Hemant Purohit, Andrew Hampton, Valerie L. Shalin, Amit P. Sheth, John Flach

Kno.e.sis Publications

The present research aims to detect coordinated citizen response within social media traffic to assist emergency response. We use domain-independent linguistic properties as the first step in narrowing the candidate set of messages for domain-dependent and computationally intensive analysis.

Inquiries Into Korean Linguistics V: Selected Works From The Eighteenth International Conference And The 2012 Xuzhou Conference On Linguistic Sciences, David J. Silva, Candy Mccormic, Margaret Dwyer

UTA Libraries Staff Publications - Archive

No abstract provided.

It’S Not What You Do, It’S Who You Are: Adjectives As Identity-Conferrers, C.B. Rodgers

Anthós

To see how positive identity assessments are created, I investigated two statements, both released by organizations that can broadly be described as part of Portland’s liberal or left community. Each statement responds to assertions that the actions of the organization, or one of its members, provides a platform for anti-Semitic, white supremacist, and/or fascist political organizers to make inroads in Portland. One set of data is a statement from Citybikes, a workerowned cooperative, that was published on Portland IndyMedia, a web-based independent media center; the other is a statement from a Portland community art space, The Variant, that was published …