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Anagram Quiz 4
Word Ways
The clues are definitve anagrams or polyanagrams of the answers. Answers are out back.
On The Distinction Between "Phonetic" Palindromes And "Phonetically" Reversible Words, T.A. Hall
On The Distinction Between "Phonetic" Palindromes And "Phonetically" Reversible Words, T.A. Hall
Word Ways
1. Defining three types of words By definition, a palindrome is a word, phrase or sentence that reads the same in the reverse direction as in the forward one. Simple examples of four letter English palindromes include SEES and DEED, but a moment's reflection reveals there is a fundamental difference between these two words.
The Antiquity Of The Dreidle, Solomon W. Golomb
The Antiquity Of The Dreidle, Solomon W. Golomb
Word Ways
Dear Rabbi Dov, As I mentioned to you a few days ago, the dreidle is actually an ancient toy, but I may be one the very few people who knows this, and I discovered it by accident.
Simon's 2000 Christmas Card, Simon Nightingale
Simon's 2000 Christmas Card, Simon Nightingale
Word Ways
Dear Jerry, This is my 2000 Christmas card. It is hard! The obvious clue is: If you want HELP!, then "... --- ..." How to assign Morse code to the objects is not easy.
Invertible Word Squares And Rectangles, Mike Keith
Invertible Word Squares And Rectangles, Mike Keith
Word Ways
Eric Harshbarger recently posed an interesting question: what are the largest word squares or rectangles that can be found which transform into another, valid word square or rectangle when turned upside down?
Unsociable Diplomats And Misnamed Wombats: More Funny Bloopers And Barbed Ripostes, Don Hauptman
Unsociable Diplomats And Misnamed Wombats: More Funny Bloopers And Barbed Ripostes, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
In a Wall Street Journal forum on terrorism, published on September 9, 2011, a former top government official wrote: " We went to war with Germany in 1941 not because it had attacked Pearl Harbor but because it was dangerous." Does he really think Germany rather than Japan attacked Pear Harbor? Or is it just a sloppily crafted sentence?
Not All One-Letter Words Are Palindromes, T.A. Hall
Not All One-Letter Words Are Palindromes, T.A. Hall
Word Ways
Virtually any discussion of palindromes - regardless of the source - reveals a complete lack of interest in small words. In particular, one will rarely encounter a list of one-letter palindromes, presumably because that type of word should be palindromic by any definition. While this is clearly the case for the most common, garden-variety examples (e.g. A, I, O etc.) the naive view will have us believe that one-letter words with an adjacent apostrophe -typically contracted words in English - should be palindromes as well.
Mnemonics In Second Language Acquisition, Ghil'ad Zuckermann
Mnemonics In Second Language Acquisition, Ghil'ad Zuckermann
Word Ways
When my son Giulio Xingtian Yehuda Zuckermann, a.k.a. Giulio XYZ, was 2 years old he already knew the Israeli word for 'fish' : DAG. Due to the general tendency towards final devoicing (see, for example, German kind, pronounced kint, or a German immigrant to Israel pronouncing Negev as Negef), Giulio often pronounced DAG as DAK.
Neologisms Beginning With The Letters Q Through S, J. James Mancuso
Neologisms Beginning With The Letters Q Through S, J. James Mancuso
Word Ways
Neologisms beginning with the Letters Q through S.
Celestial Magic- Another Magic Spell, Jeremiah Farrell
Celestial Magic- Another Magic Spell, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
Our celestial magic is a variation of the effect in "A Magic Tour" (February 2011) which in turn was an adaptation from Jim Steinmeyer's Subsequent Impuzzibilities.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 44 Number 4
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 44 Number 4
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
The Relationship Between Listening Proficiency And Speaking Improvement In Higher Education: Considerations In Assessing Speaking And Listening, Erickzon Dany Astorga
The Relationship Between Listening Proficiency And Speaking Improvement In Higher Education: Considerations In Assessing Speaking And Listening, Erickzon Dany Astorga
Higher Learning Research Communications
This study examines the outcomes of having recourse to listening skills as support to improve oral skills in English language teaching. In this context, data from 120 students at a specific higher education institution was analyzed; 60 of whom were provided with totally listening-focused instruction and activities, while a separate group of 60 students receiving normal institutional English teaching. A comparative analysis of pre- and post-test rubric labels and scores indicated a close link between listening proficiency and a slight improvement in functional and interactive oral sub-skills. The results of this study have implications for defining the foundations of future …
Celebration Of Mind, Scott Hudson, Tom Rodgers
Celebration Of Mind, Scott Hudson, Tom Rodgers
Word Ways
Information about the second Martin Gardner Celebration of Mind.
Stinky Pinkies: Variations, A. Ross Eckler
Stinky Pinkies: Variations, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The standard stinky pinky is a two-word rhyming phrase such as FLOWER POWER or HAIRY LARRY. Common variations are achieved by inserting words such as THE or 'N' (as in SLICE IT 'n' ICE IT, to skin and freeze an animal, or CATCH the SCRATCH, to contract a case of poison ivy). Buzzwords (Crown Publishers, 1993) has a variety of unusual variations; a type-collection is given below.
Pieces Of Centaurs, Mike Keith
Pieces Of Centaurs, Mike Keith
Word Ways
The poem below is a sequel to "Octopi" (WW, Feb. 2009, p. 43) and obeys a similar lexical constraint to its predecessor. There is a hint regarding the constraint hidden in each stanza. What is the constraint, can you find the eight hints?
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 44 Number 3
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 44 Number 3
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue, including a table of contents.
Fortunate Reversals, Richard Lederer
Fortunate Reversals, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
We intrepid logologists love to switch around letters within words -- adjacent letters (UNITED UNTIED), separated letters (CONVERSATION CONSERVATION), and initial and terminal letters (LATCHES SATCHEL). In some words we can interchange each half to form new words. Dmitri Borgmann called these leapfrogging specimens "cyclic transpositions." I prefer the more playful "fortunate reversals."
Close Call, Louis Phillips
Funny Words 3, A. Anil
Funny Words 3, A. Anil
Word Ways
Funny haha arguably, funny peculiar inarguably. No legit dictionary would touch these newords. So why create them? James Mancuso (eg, 11-124) mostly coins realistic neologisms, like Barbara Wallraff's Word Fugutives, as possible real words. My motive is more frivolous -- an urge to play logodaedaly just for fun, cavalierly ignoring my vast ignorance of existing words. There are some one million non-proper English words, give or take a million. Of course this spread allows the possibility (a million minus a million) that there are no legitimate English words, bastards every one! I leap on that leveled playing field scenario …
Scrabble And Retrograde Analysis, Simon Norton
Scrabble And Retrograde Analysis, Simon Norton
Word Ways
Reading Mike Keith's article "Scrabble-Tile Double Word Squares and Rectangles" (WW Feb 2011) led me to ask the following question: which of the word grids he gave are actually legal positions in a game of Scrabble? Chess problemists use the term "retrograde analysis" for the study of how chess positions might have arisen in a legal game; this concept is of course equally applicable to other games, including Scrabble.
Special Numerical Tautonymic Charades, Susan Thorpe
Special Numerical Tautonymic Charades, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
In Numerical Charades Part 4 (Word Ways Feb. 2011 p. 34), I offered a new type of numerical tautonym, specifically the numerical tautonymic charade.
Iambic Double Vowel Shift Cascades, A. Anil
Iambic Double Vowel Shift Cascades, A. Anil
Word Ways
VOWEL (SHIFT) CASCADES (02-53,192) are sentential or meaningful WORD LADDERS that run thru the vowels in one spot, eg, Bad bed bid bod bud. (Bedbugs, VD or pregnancy?) Vowel cascades can also be PHONIC: Bait beat: "Bite!" bought boot (The Shoe of the Fisherman). Susan Thorpe (11-155) calls meaningless examples of PHONETIC VOWEL ROTATIONS, although rotator has a prior wordplay meaning as a non-mirror word inversion like up/dn (see up/dn). She gives many good non-sentential examples with long vowel sounds but ignores short vowels.
The Cult Of Word Fasting, Dave Morice
The Cult Of Word Fasting, Dave Morice
Word Ways
This short story replaces the "Kickshaws" feature for this issue.
One-Pointers, Steve Kahan
One-Pointers, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
The following quiz solicits a grand total of one hundred answers, supplying the rationale for its title. While all of the categories are familiar, some of the answers might prove to be elusive. How close can you come to achieving a perfect score?
Collector's Corner, Round 3, Jeremiah Farrell
Collector's Corner, Round 3, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
In his book The No-Sided Professor Martin Gardner reprints "The Three Cowboys", a story for children from January 1959 Humpty Dumpty's Magazine.
Collector's Corner, Round 5, Jeremiah Farrell
Collector's Corner, Round 5, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
Martin Gardner's 300th article for Scientific American appeared in their August, 1998 issue (Cover: New Thinking about Back Pain). It's title "A Quarter-Century of Recreational Mathematics," highlights Gardner's 297 "Mathematical Games" columns and his 1956 article on "Hexaflexagons" (he does not mention the 1952 article on "Logic -- see Collector's Corner -- Round 4).