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More Quality Word Squares, Dmitri A. Borgmann

Word Ways

In a companion article, I presented the hundred 6x6 quality word squares. In this article, I extend these results to squares of the seventh, eighth and ninth order.

Invited Editorial: African Pygmies, What's Behind A Name?, Paul Verdu, Giovanni Destro-Bisol

Human Biology

No abstract provided.

Echoes Of The South: Exploring Southern Dialect, Karen Arneson

ESSAI

No abstract provided.

English-Only Policy And Belief In The United States, Lauren E. White

Honors Theses and Capstones

English-Only initiatives are commonplace in the United States. Proponents of Official English would like to make the official language of the United States English despite the prestige English already has in the United States. The motivations behind this movement are varied and have substantial effects on the opinion of the American population. This paper examines a group of American residents in the Northeast, aged 18 and older. States considered Northeastern in this study are Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. The survey distributed contains questions on the topic of English- only issues, …

Teaching English Language Learners From China, Abigail Pavlik

Honors Theses and Capstones

This research paper attempts to provide American teachers with important background information for teaching English language learners from China. The research is presented primarily for ESL teachers, but much of it would also be useful for any teacher or professor working with students of this description. The paper proceeds by exploring similarities and differences between 1. Chinese and English, 2. Chinese and American culture, and 3. Chinese and American education or "classroom culture," considering all along the way the implications for teaching and working with these students.

Pamela: Or, Virtue Reworded: The Texts, Paratexts, And Revisions That Redefine Samuel Richardson's Pamela, Jarrod Hurlbert

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation is a study of the revisions Samuel Richardson made to his first novel, Pamela, and its sequel, Pamela in Her Exalted Condition, published within his lifetime. Richardson, who was his own printer, revised Pamela eight times over twenty years, the sequel three times, and the majority of the variants have hitherto suffered from critical neglect. Because it is well known that Richardson responded to friendly and antagonistic "collaborators" by making emendations, I also examine the extant documents that played a role in Pamela's development, including Richardson's correspondence and contemporary criticisms of the novel. Pamela Reworded, then, is an …

A Diachronic Analysis Of Schwa In French, Joshua M. Griffiths

Student Publications

Since the beginning of the formal study of language, linguists have struggled with the phonological problems posed by the mid-central vowel sound schwa. Schwa poses a series of challenges for linguists who study many languages, and this is particularly true for phonologists and phoneticians who specialize in French. Most of the challenges that come from analyzing the articulations of schwa in French arise from the overlap it has with mid- and open-mid-front-rounded vowels in French such as in the second vowel in the word “atelier” (workshop) and the second vowel in the word “appeler” (to call.) In this study a …

Linguistics - Cornell University, Kornelia Tancheva

Data Curation Profiles Directory

The goal of the research in this data curation profile is to learn about the linguistic aspects of the Cheyenne language with a focus on semantics, pragmatics, and syntactic issues. The data is gathered from recordings of short stories or examples given in response to specific questions. The data management issues center around the early stages of her data. The researcher described a need for a technician who could help segment and transcribe the audio files and a need to apply metadata using morphological gloss that would make it searchable. Additionally, the data would need to be available in a …

Indexing And Dialectical Transcendence: Kenneth Burke's Critical Method, David Erland Isaksen

Theses and Dissertations

Kenneth Burke has been described as arguably the most important rhetorician and critical theorist of the twentieth century, and yet an important part of his scholarship has been generally overlooked by the academic community. The pentad has become the most prominent "Burkean" framework for analyzing texts, yet Kenneth Burke himself preferred "a more direct" way of approaching texts which he named "indexing." This thesis recreates this method from the pieces found in his scholarly writing, personal correspondence, and the papers his students produced for the class he taught at Bennington College. Kenneth Burke believed indexing could uncover the "pattern of …

Arts & Humanities News, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities News

• Music department to host VOICE workshop
• Writing and Linguistics students awarded at annual competitio

Arts & Humanities News, Georgia Southern University

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

• Music department to host VOICE workshop
• Writing and Linguistics students awarded at annual competitio

More Sliding-Letter Puzzles, Mike Keith

Word Ways

Since writing "Vintage Plastic Sliding-Letter Puzzles" (WW, Nov. 2011, p.310) I have discovered some additional puzzles of ths kind manufactured by various companies during the 1960's and 1970's -and one of the recent vintage that is still in print. In this article I will describe these puzzles and discuss some of the logological problems suggested by them.

Look Back!, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

In February and August 1996, I wrote two Word Ways articles, "Queens's-Move Graphing" and "Queen's-Move Graphing Revisited". There has been no subsequent exploration of this topic in Word Ways by a computer-literate generation of logologists.

Tense Homophones, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Homophones are words which sound the same but which have different spellings and different meanings. BAWL and BALL are homophones. Here, I look at homophones in conjunction with past and present tenses.

In The Beginning, Jeremiah F. Farrell

Word Ways

A crossword puzzle.

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles in this issue.

Scrabble Patterns, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

When the letters of the word SUPERMAN are assigned their Scrabble values, SUPERMAN becomes 1131.1311, a palindromic numerical arrangement. SUPE.RMAN is what I call a Scrabble Palindrome. Similarly, GAR.DEN is a Scrabble Tautonym (211.211), while RU.IN (11.11) is both a Scrabble Palindrome and a Scrable Tautonym. The Scrabble totals of the letters of the first and second halves of the word are equal, in the above cases 6.6, 4.4, and 2.2 respectively.

Punk Whiz 17, Anil .

Word Ways

More Pun Quiz misdefinitions.

Currency Events, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

One of the songs from Cabaret reminds us that "money makes the world go 'round." The same can be said about the following quiz in which twenty seemingly-unrelated words are presented. Your assignment consists of replacing one letter in each word with another word and then anagrammatizing the resulting collection to reveal one of the world's currencies.

A Geography Quiz, T.A. Hall

Word Ways

The questions below require not only a high degree of geographical prowess, but also knowledge of the logology of country names and names of languages. Even with the aid of an atlas most of these questions will prove to be quite challenging.

Comment On "Ladies' Diary Riddle - An Answer", Jim Puder

Word Ways

This note is a comment on Ronnie Kon's article "Ladies' Diary Riddle - An Answer" in the August Word Ways.

More Morse, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Mention the Morse Code to logologists and they immediately think of the number FIFTEEN, unique in being being self explanatory in Morse Code represented, as it is, by 15 dots and dashes.

Poet Tree Without Mist Aches, Scot Morris

Word Ways

A Poem

Anagram Quiz 5, Anil .

Word Ways

A quiz.

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Back Cover

Word Ways

Back cover of this issue including instructions to authors.

Words That Never Stray, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

What do the following words have in common: bread, clams, dough, cabbage, lettuce, peanuts, and chicken feed? Each is a food that is metaphoric slang for "cash."

New Pair Isograms, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

Dmitri Borgmann introduced the concept of pair isograms in Language on Vacation. Pair isograms are words which use pairs of each different letter.

A New Year's Diet, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

In Britain, at the start of each New Year, Many people make a resolution to go on a diet, in order to shed weight following excess eating and drinkin over the Christmas and New Year breaks. I'm not sure if the same applies in North America and elsewhere.

Sesquipedalian English, Richard Lederer

Word Ways

Early in my career as verbivore, I became fascinated with long words. My heart leapt up when I beheld the likes of inapprpriateness (17 letters) incomprehensibilty (19 letters), and the 22-letter counterrevolutionaries and deinstitutionalization.