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Word Worm Maze, Mark J. P. Wolf
Word Worm Maze, Mark J. P. Wolf
Word Ways
Starting with the "A" in the upper left-hand corner, find a word by moving adjacently letter to letter, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, one letter at a time. When you reach the last letter of the word, move to an adjacent letter and start the next word, and continue doing so until you reach a word ending in "Z" in the lower right-hand corner.
Kickshaws, David Morice
A Poem, Martin Gardner
Words' Worth: A Review Of Alphabet Juice, Don Hauptman
Words' Worth: A Review Of Alphabet Juice, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
A new book about language is always cause for rejoicing, especially when it celebrates both the serious and the humorous aspects of words.
Magic With Bizarre Poems, Martin Gardner
Magic With Bizarre Poems, Martin Gardner
Word Ways
A strange collection of poems entitled Shadows in the Moonlight, was written and privately printed in Los Angeles in 1927 by T. page Wright, a Hollywood script writer. Wright was a skillful amateur magician who wrote the poems so that the book could be used for performing a feat of mental magic. Each of the 22 poems is so constructed that the nineteenth word is "rose" and the thirty-first word is "love." The book originally sold in magic stores for five dollars, but is now extremely scarce.
Prefix Meals, Don Hauptman
Prefix Meals, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
Below, a fresh batch of entertaining mistakes and anomalies followed by witty ripostes - assembled for my book in progress, the working title of which is To "Er ..." is Human. Contributions, to the above address, are welcome.
Return To Albuquerque, Steve Kahan
Return To Albuquerque, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
Another trip to Albuquerque, the logological mecca of the Southwest first encountered in Volume 41, Number 1 of Word Ways. Recall that an Albuquerque word contains two separated but identical letter triads. When these are removed and the remaining letters consolidated, what results is called the residue of the original word.
Punk Whiz 7, A Anil
Punk Whiz 7, A Anil
Word Ways
Yet another misdefinition pun quiz. Numbers in parentheses are the letters in the answer; (4|5) is a charade, a nine letter word that splits into a four plus five letter pun. My answers are out back.
Something In The Air, Jim Puder
Something In The Air, Jim Puder
Word Ways
The following ditties parody the popular songs "Rennies from Heaven," "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" and "Bye, Bye, Blackbird," respectively.
A Wordy Digression: The Game Of Hipe, Peter Winkler
A Wordy Digression: The Game Of Hipe, Peter Winkler
Word Ways
In Mathematical Mind-Benders, Peter Winkler. Wellesley, MA: A.K. Peters, 2007. Reprinted by permission of A.K. Peters, Ltd.
What's In? - A Name! - Part V, Steve Kahan
What's In? - A Name! - Part V, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
The consolidations in the list below are the result of eradicating four-letter male names from thirty words and closing up any subsequent spaces formed. (Perhaps a more apt title would have been "Four - The Boys"?) Restore as many of these guys as you can to their rightful positions in order to identify the original words. Fear not, however - MENsa membership is not a prerequisite for a successful pursuit of this challenge!
Awesome Will Be Laid To Rest, Michael Turton
Awesome Will Be Laid To Rest, Michael Turton
Word Ways
The word awesome was taken off life support today and declared legally dead. The demise of the incomparable word that once caused users to quake when appropriately employing its meaning was announced at a press conference hosted by Thesaurus.net and Dictionary.org.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
Instructions To Authors
Word Ways
Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to the publication.
A Poem, Jeremy Morse
Reversible Verses, David B. Woodside
Urban Dynamics; An Impression Of Surabaya's Sociolinguistic Setting, Tom G. Hoogervorst
Urban Dynamics; An Impression Of Surabaya's Sociolinguistic Setting, Tom G. Hoogervorst
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
This paper examines the sociolinguistic situation in the city of Surabaya, by presenting an impression of various phenomena unique to Indonesia's second largest city. A surprisingly little amount of linguistic research has heretofore been carried out on this subject, whereas it transpires from this study that enough intriguing and unique things can be found in this Southeast Asian metropolis, both among its Javanese majority as well as its Madurese and Chinese inhabitants. Due to the lack of earlier relevant publications, this research is largely based on the results of several fieldwork trips, which included the pleasant activities of watching television, …
Bias For Consonantal Information Over Vocalic Information In 30-Month-Olds: Cross-Linguistic Evidence From French And English., Thierry Nazzi, Caroline Floccia, Bérangère Moquet, Joseph Butler
Bias For Consonantal Information Over Vocalic Information In 30-Month-Olds: Cross-Linguistic Evidence From French And English., Thierry Nazzi, Caroline Floccia, Bérangère Moquet, Joseph Butler
School of Psychology
Using a name-based categorization task, Nazzi found in 2005 that French-learning 20-month-olds can make use of one-feature consonantal contrasts between new labels but fail to do so with one-feature vocalic contrasts. This asymmetry was interpreted as developmental evidence for the proposal that consonants play a more important role than vowels at the lexical level. In the current study using the same task, we first show that by 30 months French-learning infants can make use of one-feature vocalic contrasts (e.g., /pize/-/pyze/). Second, we show that in a situation where infants must neglect either a consonantal one-feature change or a vocalic one-feature …
Who's Afraid, Oscar Thumpbindle
Cubic Word Squares, A. Ross Eckler
Cubic Word Squares, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
In a letter dated 16 Mar 2005, Anil proposed constructing word cubes consisting of six word squares, one on each cube face, with edge words shared by squares on adjacent faces. To avoid confusion with the word cubes introduced by Darryl Francis in the Aug 1971 Word Ways, I propose that these structures be called cubic word squares. (Darryl's n-by-n-by-n word cube consists of a set of 3n word squares oriented in three different planes, having a total of 3n2 words.)
New Word Recreations, Oscar Thumpbindle
New Word Recreations, Oscar Thumpbindle
Word Ways
In the November issue, Jim Puder nicely extended Harold Jacob's "Three Jog Knight" (WW Aug 2008) to a Five-Jog Knight puzzle. Puder and the editor solved the problem and its solution appears in this issue. I wish to extend their results and point out some new puzzles and games that can be performed with their words.
Inane Addenda, A. Ross Eckler
Inane Addenda, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The May 1994 Word Ways exhibited a set of sentences constructed by National Public Radio listeners, each using only two consonants. This sequel shows how respondents treated one of the most frequently-chosen combinations.
Front Cover, Publication Information
Front Cover, Publication Information
Word Ways
Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents
Websterisms: In Search Of Noah's Headwords, Arthur Schulman
Websterisms: In Search Of Noah's Headwords, Arthur Schulman
Word Ways
Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828) is a browser's paradise, revealing many words whose meaning has changed since Noah's time and others that lie idiosyncratically defined. I offer fifty of Webster's definitions below, and challenge the reader to guess the headwords that Webster was trying to define. To make the task more approachable, wordlengths are provided for the to-be-discovered headwords, which are listed in alphabetical order of their appearance in the dictionary. All of these headwords, if not Webster's definitions, should prove to be familiar to readers of Word Ways.
Knight's Challenge Answered, Jim Puder
Knight's Challenge Answered, Jim Puder
Word Ways
Only one solution was received for the Five-Jog Knight puzzle contest posed in the November Word Ways. Submitted in mid-December, editor Jeremiah Farrell's solution managed to achieve a 20/20 Collegiate score, which is to say that every word in its 20-word word set is an entry in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. Such perfection had not been expected.
Tense Exchanges, Susan Thorpe
Tense Exchanges, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Tense exchanges occur when the past and present tenses of the same verb lock on to, or interlock with, another letter or letters to make two other words. Thus FALL and FELL appear in FALLOW and FELLOW, locked on to -OW; RUN and RAN appear in RUIN and RAIN, interlocked with -I. The tenses always appear in the same position(s) in the two words.
What Now? Not "Wow!": New Spoonerisms, Don Hauptman
What Now? Not "Wow!": New Spoonerisms, Don Hauptman
Word Ways
Each August, cartoonist Jim Siergey and I collaborate on a collection of illustrated spoonerisms for Word Ways. Invariably, however, I have more specimens than space allows. And some don't readily lend themselves to visualization, requiring instead a verbal setup or a narrative or shaggy-dog-story form. Here then is a fresh batch, along with a few examples - that, to be strictly accurate, are not spoonerisms but word reversals.