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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.
Kickshaws, D. Morice
Kickshaws, D. Morice
Word Ways
In the opening Kickshaw, Rich Lederer continues displaying a selection of his wordplay poems accompanied by comments on language. It begins with a drawing I made of Rich for a wonderful but sadly short lived magazine for younger people called "Time Machine." Rich wrote a column for it titled "The Wizard of Words," and I illustrated it. Allow me to introduce the Venerable Wizard Himself.
Insiders, Jim Puder
Insiders, Jim Puder
Word Ways
I first became aware of this particular wordplay recreation when I noticed its use in the Nov. 8, 1998 New York Times Crossword puzzle, which was composed by Robert Malinow and entitled "Insiders." Although the concept of insiders may well have been an original one with Malinow, I have since learned that similar devices have, in fact, long been employed in clues used by so-called "cryptic" crosswords.
Three Jog Knight, Harold Jacobs
Three Jog Knight, Harold Jacobs
Word Ways
The rock band Three Dog Night started to become popular in the late 60s. At that time, I created a puzzle to lead into a lesson in one of my math classes which I called the Three Jog Knight. Its purpose was to introduce some ideas about vectors; the puzzle was to show all of the ways in which a knight could be moved from the lower to the upper square in this chessboard in exactly three moves.
A Poem, Martin Gardner
A Poem, Martin Gardner
Word Ways
This is an exceprt from Gardner's 1969 book Never Make Fun Of A Turtle, My Son (Simon and Schuster, illustrated by John Alcorn).
More Baileyisms, Arthur I. Schulman
More Baileyisms, Arthur I. Schulman
Word Ways
Al Shapiro's article in the May issue "Bailey's Hexameters" cited some of Nat. Bailey's definitions in the 1730 folio edition Dictionarium Britannicum. Here are some other Baileyisms that might be of interest to WW readers.
Punk Whiz 4, A. Anil
Punk Whiz 4, A. Anil
Word Ways
Pun quiz, continued from May-Nov. '06. Clues are false but credible definitions of the answers, which mean something else. Many contain a direct clue as well as the misleading one, as in cryptic crosswords. Some are charades or homophonic puns, most just double meanings.
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 (Simon and Schuster, illustrated by John Alcorn).
Variation On A Theme Of Francis, Jeremiah Farrell
Variation On A Theme Of Francis, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
In the February, 1970 Word Ways Darryl Francis had an article "A Reconstructable Crossword Puzzle". The 15x15 puzzle had fixed pieces (polyomino style) that could be moved around in the grid to form a second crossword with new definitions. Sometime later he sent to Word Ways a six-solution puzzle of a similar nature. This puzzle has not yet run in print because of space considerations but we hope to use this tour-de-force in the near future.
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 (Simon and Schuster, illustrated by John Alcorn).
Sentence Carried Out, A. Anil
Sentence Carried Out, A. Anil
Word Ways
Many well known proverbs, quotes and expressions have entered out vocabularies in a foreshortened, hence inaccurate, form. I here set the record straight by revealing the original, complete sentences.
Comparative Homophonic Trios, A. Anil
Comparative Homophonic Trios, A. Anil
Word Ways
"Trios" are thoughts expressed by three related words. They may be phrases, sentences, conversations, miniature poems ("triodes"), three pieces of a single word, etc. The three words may be related in any number of ways - homophones, anagrams, word ladders, other logological relations, rhyme, alliteration, repetition. Here's a special type, in the irreverant style of gross grocer grossest. You'll quickly see what I'm up to. It's artificial, sure, but it created the scaffolding for some trios I thought you might enjoy.
Spoonertoons 5: Drawing A Sign In The Land, Don Hauptman, Jim Siergey
Spoonertoons 5: Drawing A Sign In The Land, Don Hauptman, Jim Siergey
Word Ways
Cartoons containing spoonerisms.
Urban Renewal, Steve Kahan
Urban Renewal, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
It has been reputed that the continent of Atlantis was lost beneath the sea and there are historical references to the lost city of the Incas. Mindful of these occurrences, each of the twenty-five examples below represents what has been left behind when a world city has disappeared from the beginning, end or middle of a word en toto.
Fibonacci Words: "Howl, Sex Orgy Poet!", A. Anil
Fibonacci Words: "Howl, Sex Orgy Poet!", A. Anil
Word Ways
No, not a direct quote from Leonardo Fibonacci of Thirteenth Century Florence, just words based on translating his famous number sequence into letters, with A-Z = 1-26, 27-52, etc. There are two types of Fibonacci words, "natural" and "arbitrary".
Etc, David Morice, Susan Thorpe
Etc, David Morice, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
In this article, the reader will witness a years-long journey towards logological discovery. It began with a single word that seemed to be the only member of a specific class of anagrams. Then a second example was found. And now, like the little Dutch boy who put his finger into the hole in the dike, we pulled our fingers out, the dike broke and the wordplay poured all over us. We were in the middle of a language flood, and we'd like to invite you to "come on in, the water's fine".
Town-And-State Name Transposals, Darryl Francis
Town-And-State Name Transposals, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Transposals of the US statenames have received considerable attention in previous editions of Word Ways. Familiar transposals include NOMINATES (MINNESOTA), NOWANIGHTS (WASHINGTON) and TAXES (TEXAS).
Another Unidictionary Nine-Square, A. Ross Eckler
Another Unidictionary Nine-Square, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The November 1991 Word Ways exhibited a nine-square by Eric Albert with all of its words contained in a single dictionary (Webster's Second Unabridged), the first one of its kind to be discovered. Can this feat be duplicated with words only from the Oxford English Dictionary? At least two logologists have tried, with varying degrees of success. In the February 1997 Word Ways Richard Sabey presented the first square given below, claiming that it consisted entirely of OED words.
Digital Diversions, Susan Thorpe
Digital Diversions, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Letter digitalization converts the letters of a word into their alphanumerical values (A=1, B=2 ... Z=26) and then breaks down the barriers between and within the resulting numbers to reveal a string of digits. Thus the word WORD 23, 15, 18, 4 has the digit string 2315184. Digitalized words are interesting for numerous reasons.
A Mel Stover Recollection, Bob Friedhoffer
A Mel Stover Recollection, Bob Friedhoffer
Word Ways
The late Canadian magician Mel Stover was a close friend of Martin Gardner.
Amoebic Charades, Susan Thorpe
Amoebic Charades, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Logological charades occur when a word is split into two or more words which make a phrase. Thus BESTRIDE - BEST RIDE and NOTABLE - NOT ABLE are charades. Occasionally, the original word together with the words into which it divides all make a phrase: BITTERN BIT TERN.
Instructions To Authors, Subscribers
Instructions To Authors, Subscribers
Word Ways
Instructions for authors interested in contributing and readers interested in subscribing.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
Forty-Three Names, Darryl Francis
Forty-Three Names, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Here are 43 names of various people, presented in alphabetical order. Some are surnames only, some are first-name and surname, some involve an initial, some are fictional, and some are groups of people.
Missing Persons, Steve Kahan
Missing Persons, Steve Kahan
Word Ways
Each of the thirty words listed below has resulted from the removal of the same three-letter name from the end and the beginning of two other words and running the remaining letters together. As an illustration, if we were to split the word CREDO between its first and second letters, the insertion of the name ALF would produce CALF and ALFREDO.
Metaphorical Singular Reference: The Role Of Enriched Composition In Reference Resolution, Anne L. Bezuidenhout
Metaphorical Singular Reference: The Role Of Enriched Composition In Reference Resolution, Anne L. Bezuidenhout
Faculty Publications
It is widely accepted that, in the course of interpreting a metaphorical utterance, both literal and metaphorical interpretations of the utterance are available to the interpreter, although there may be disagreement about the order in which these interpretations are accessed. I call this the dual availability assumption. I argue that it does not apply in cases of metaphorical singular reference. These are cases in which proper names, complex demonstratives or definite descriptions are used metaphorically; e.g., ‘That festering sore must go’, referring to a derelict house. We are forced to give up dual availability in these cases because a process …
Review Of "Writing The Economy: Activity, Genre, And Technology In The World Of Banking", Andrea R. Olinger
Review Of "Writing The Economy: Activity, Genre, And Technology In The World Of Banking", Andrea R. Olinger
Faculty and Staff Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Ashkii Bizaad: Verbal Morphology Loss In One Young Speaker's Navajo, Eric W. Weisser
Ashkii Bizaad: Verbal Morphology Loss In One Young Speaker's Navajo, Eric W. Weisser
Linguistics Honors Projects
With a rich verbal morphology and an aging population of native speakers, Navajo offers a valuable opportunity to examine language attrition in detail. Few Navajo children grow up completely unexposed to their heritage language, yet the number raised as monolingual English speakers has risen sharply in the past thirty years. This thesis compares one young speaker's production of verbs with conservative, "textbook" forms, analyzes the patterns found within this comparison, and draws on similar processes in the dying languages Dyirbal and Romansch to place these Navajo data in the larger context of language attrition.