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Instructions To Authors, Subscribers
Instructions To Authors, Subscribers
Word Ways
Instructions to authors wishing to contribute and readers wishing to subscribe.
Colloquy
Word Ways
Please note that a new electronic version of Word Ways will be available for next year's volume. Subscribers will be able to view on screen the last five years of Word Ways and eventually all forty-two years of articles.
On Word-Length And Dictionary Size, John Henrick
On Word-Length And Dictionary Size, John Henrick
Word Ways
It has long been known that the larger the dictionary, the longer the words that are contained in it. In an attempt to quantify this observation, I collected data from word lists based on several American and English dictionaries.
Leaping Letters, Susan Thorpe
Leaping Letters, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Each of these 2-word phrases contains a letter with flea-like tendencies whose sole aim in life is to leap across to the other word of the phrase! All well and good, but certain rules have to obtain and certain standards uphold in the process. The leap might be from the first word to the second word or from the second word to the first word. Whichever way they leap, the result must be another phrase.
Hewn-Ever, City-Head-You Occasion, A Anil
Hewn-Ever, City-Head-You Occasion, A Anil
Word Ways
The cryptic title of this list reads "University Education". It features cognate homophonic puns of many of the academented Departments here at Puniversity. (Puny Verse at Tea?) The commentaries or course descriptions try to unearth some logic in the rubble, to 'defragment' it as it were, and to give clues if you have difficulty with any of them. As an additional clue it's alphabetical by the department's name before the degradation. I was going to make it a quiz but decided it's much too easy for you mob.
A Poem, Martin Gardner
A Poem, Martin Gardner
Word Ways
This is an excerpt from Gardner's 1969 book Never Make Fun Of A Turtle, My Son.
What's In? - A Name! - Part Iii, Steve Kahan
What's In? - A Name! - Part Iii, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
In this installment of "What's In? - A Name!", five-letter names have been removed from forty words and the remaining letters have been presented in consolidated form. For example, 'can' would readmit NADIA to reconstruct caNADIAn, a perfectly fine response were proper nouns eligible as answers. (They are not!) To make matters a bit more interesting this time, the genders, while equally represented, have been mixed together, much like the dorms in many modern-day colleges. Your goal is to imbed the invisible names into their compressions in order to identity the original word. Happy hunting!
A Poem, Martin Gardner
A Poem, Martin Gardner
Word Ways
This is an excerpt from Gardner's 1969 book Never Make Fun Of A Turtle, My Son.
"Put That In Your Pipe And Chew It!", Don Hauptman
"Put That In Your Pipe And Chew It!", Don Hauptman
Word Ways
In two previous Word Ways articles (August 2001 and May 2004), I quoted choice examples of amusing mixed metaphors I had collected. Since then, I've accumulated many new specimens. They're not difficult to find. Indeed, they leap off the page like a sore thumb!
Three Puzzle Games On Pelargoniums, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell
Three Puzzle Games On Pelargoniums, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell
Word Ways
For these three puzzle-games we require the 16 word tokens ERN, GEM, GUS, IOS, LAG, LIP, MOA, NIM, NUL, OLE, OUR, PES, RAP, RIG, SAN, and UMP.
Puzzlemints, A. Anil
Puzzlemints, A. Anil
Word Ways
An assortment of logological riddles for your bemusement. A few are nonsenses but most are "serious" quizzes and research questions.
Bionym, John Holgate
Bionym, John Holgate
Word Ways
The famous are fond of inventing catchy tiles for their biographies often based on an associated nickname or signature tune. A classical 'bionym' is one in which the subject's identity is cleverly hidden in the title itself and can be guessed without knowing the author - like 'Citizen Jane' (Jane Fonda) or 'Acts of Faith' (Adam Faith).
Odes From The Odd Topics Society, Howard G. Baetzhold
Odes From The Odd Topics Society, Howard G. Baetzhold
Word Ways
Butler's Odd Topics Society meets every now and then to discuss Odd Topics of any nature. Professor Baetzhold is the Poet Laureat Odd Topics Society.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
Pondering With Pegg, Ed Pegg Jr.
Doggy Dog World!, Dick Wolfsie
Doggy Dog World!, Dick Wolfsie
Word Ways
The other day I was reading a novel and I saw the following sentence:
"If you think I'm going out with you anymore, you have another think coming."
Front Cover, Publication Information
Front Cover, Publication Information
Word Ways
Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents
Even More Consecutive Palindromic Triads, Steve Kahan
Even More Consecutive Palindromic Triads, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
Here is the latest collection of consecutive palindromic triads, an already familiar challenge to the readership of Word Ways. For any tyros, we briefly recap the rules.
Mnemonics For Number Sequences, A. Ross Eckler
Mnemonics For Number Sequences, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
One of the most frequently-occurring uses for a mnemonic is to remember a sequence of integers. As always, the question is one of efficiency versus memorability: how much must the original integer sequence be expanded? The obvious solution to the problem, that of letting the number of letters in a word stand for the integer (with ten letters for the digit zero) is extremely inefficient, representing a five-fold inflation.
All The Perfumes Of Arabia, Leonard R. N. Ashley
All The Perfumes Of Arabia, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
Politics and economics have recently brought into sharp focus the Arabic languages, but there was a time when contact between different civilizations was more civilized and when Arabic had an immense effect on the humanities and sciences in the western world. That is why academics and judges and ministers, etc., still wear robes derived from Arab dress. Here we suggest Arabic's influence on western languages.
Seven And Thirteen, Dave Morice
Seven And Thirteen, Dave Morice
Word Ways
As the superstitious know for a fact and the substitous deny as mere superstition, the numbers 7 and 13 influence our lives far more than any other number lower than a googol. They are the Yin-Yang of Fortune, the Comedy and Tragedy of Kismet, the Abbott and Costello of Fate, the Sweet and Sour Sauce of Destiny.
Simon Says, Simon Nightingale
Simon Says, Simon Nightingale
Word Ways
This begins a yearly column from Simon Nightingale and his wife Bridget. Dr. Nightingale is a second generation metagrobologist (His father Bill had started their collection of over 1000 puzzles many years ago.). The answer to this rebus appears in Answers and Solutions.
Straight From The Mouth Of The Volcano: The Lowdown On Law, Language, And Latin@S, Ȧngel R. Oquendo
Straight From The Mouth Of The Volcano: The Lowdown On Law, Language, And Latin@S, Ȧngel R. Oquendo
Indiana Law Journal
Symposium: Latinos and Latinas at the Epicenter of Contemporary Legal Discourses. Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington, March 2007.
Colloquy
Word Ways
On the day of the 2008 Summer Solstice, we spent several delightful hours meeting with Martin Gardner at his home in Norman, Oklahoma. The picture shows the editor discussing with Martin the manuscript of his soon to be published book on Word Play. The tentative title is The Collosal Book of Word Play and Sterling Publishing will be handling it.
Beheading, Andy Liu
Beheading, Andy Liu
Word Ways
I was not the only one enchanted by Ray Love's report on the Washington Post Word Contest in Word Ways 41(1) 28-29). Jeff Grant and Jennifer Smith made their contributions in Word Ways 41(2) 109. Here are a few of my own compositions. In the game of Beheading, the answers are words with their first letters to be removed.
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Word Ways
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English: Best For(E) Play With Words, A. Ross Eckler
English: Best For(E) Play With Words, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The following talk was presented at the international conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of the American Society for Geolinguistics at New York University on April 20 1985.
Obamanastics, A. Ross Eckler
Obamanastics, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
What is onomastically remarkable about Barack Obama's name? If one sets A=1, B=2, ...Z=26, adds the numerical version (2+1+18+1+3+11+15+2+1+13+1 = 68), and divides by the number of letters (11), one obtains a "density" of 6.2.