Digital Commons Network^™

Alliterative Pangrams, Tristan Miller

Word Ways

A pangram is a text that contains each letter of the alphabet at least once.

Tennis Palindromes, . Anil, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

A series of palindrome words and phrases using the names of professional tennis players.

Large Word Squares In Latin, Eric Tentarelli

Word Ways

Large word squares have been pursued in many languages, but large word squares in Latin appear to have remained unexplored, despite the form's origins in ancient Rome and despite the benefits offered by Latin inflectional endings. New word squares constructed in Latin are shown to surpass in size those created in other languages to date, most notably by attaining the holy grail of logology: the first known non-tautonymic ten-squares consisting entirely of solid, uncapitalized words in a single language. Additional results, also consisting entirely of solid, uncapitalized Latin words, include double eight-squares, a double nine-square, and eleven-squares.

Nursey Free Verse, . Anil

Word Ways

A re-imagining of classic nursery rhymes into free-verse.

Magic Squares Revisited, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

Puzzles and games.

Mary's Little Mule, . Anil

Word Ways

This sequel to all the variations of Mary Had a Little Lamb in past Word Ways is from the author's upcoming poetry collection, 101 Animal Universes.

Letter From Martin Gardner To Tapan Kumar Mukherjee 27 April 88, Tapan K. Mukherjee

Word Ways

A letter the author received from Martin Gardner.

Words Ending In Two Different Vowels, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

A list of words that end in two different vowels.

Tautonymic Vowels, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

A list of words that contain tautonymic vowels.

Palindrome Vis A Vis Carcinic: Short Note, Tapan K. Mukherjee

Word Ways

A short essay on palindromes.

The Longest Words Using The Fewest Letters, David M. Rheingold, Austin Byl, Evan Crouch, Elizabeth Krodel, Celia Schiffman, Nico Toutenhoofd

Word Ways

An essay about metric entropy within the English language and examples of the longest words using the fewest letters.

Transposing Opposites, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Two words having opposite meanings have their letters rearranged to make a phrase.

Words Containing Canadian Province & Territory Abbreviations, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

The August 2020 edition of Word Ways ran my article Words Containing US State Abbreviations, where I sought the smallest set of words containing all 50 US state abbreviations. My search also extended to seeking the smallest set of words containing the abbreviations for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the Various US territories.

In this article, I repeat the exercise for the more modest group of abbreviations for the Canadian provinces and territories.

Removing Like Letters From A Word To Leave Another Word, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

The author removes like letters from a single word to form a new word.

New G4g Auction, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

Announcing an online auction taking place Nov. 8-15, 2020.

Some New Magic With "Most-Perfect" Magic Squares, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

More magic squares along with some photographic memories of Martin Gardner.

Magic Square Magic, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A reprint of an article that came out of a Gathering for Gardner event.

Remembering Willard Espy, Faith W. Eckler

Word Ways

The author recalls her friendship with wordsmith and recreational linguist Willard Espy.

Bird Ways, Roger E. Rondeau

Word Ways

An essay on birds and language related to them.

Mean Sidewalks, . Anil

Word Ways

A regular column.

Another President Prediction, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A crossword puzzle about the November 2020 presidential election.

Montey: A Word Game Hustle, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A mathematical game using words that came about from a Gathering for Gardner.

Word Ways V.53 No.4 Complete Issue

Word Ways

The final complete issue of Word Ways in one file.

Study On Gender Biased Language Usage In Spanish Secondary Learning Regulations, Manuel A. Bejarano Bache

UBT International Conference

Currently, Society past mistakes about gender discrimination are being recognized. Social and civic strife are achieving to take out barriers, pre-established by means of hard pressure and control from male chauvinism. One of these barriers is that which is set through non-inclusive and sexist language, frequently biasing the message to the masculine sector, neglecting or keeping women down or on invisibility. This language is widely used and we can see it nowadays in official administrative documents. In spite of to-the-change tendency which is important and realizable, and the hard efforts which are being carried out, incomplete attempts to carry out …

Spring 2021 New Forensic Studies Certificate Takes Multidisciplinary Approach, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Easy In Any Language: Syntax, Semantics, And Pragmatics Of Activity-Oriented Adjectives In Six Languages, David Koffman

Master's Theses

Words that denote the degree of effort required for some activity, called easy adjectives here, have distinctive behavior. This behavior is explored in six languages to determine how the semantics of these words is reflected in the expressions to which they can apply, the constructions in which they appear, and their use in discourse. For four Indo-European languages, English, Spanish, German, and Russian, the analysis is based on random samples from linguistic corpora. For two non-Indo-European languages, Japanese and Swahili, the analysis is based on consultant elicitations and published examples. The analysis confirms that easy adjectives have distinctive behavior compared …

Autoethnography Of Laughter: Transforming Identity By Teaching Composition And Linguistics Through Humor, Olya Cochran

Theses and Dissertations

The following dissertation is a story composed of humorous and humor-related experiences, lived by me as an immigrant student and instructor. I reflect on how those experiences influenced the transformation and performance of my teaching identity and shaped my humor-based pedagogy for Composition and Introductory Linguistics courses. The work is considering the effects of humor on my linguistic and cultural competences as well as my teaching practice. Along with that, the work provides an overview of scholarship on humor in education and the ways practicing academics utilize humor in their teaching and teaching identities. To reflect on how and why …

Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, And Pedagogy, Raven Jones Stanbrough

Michigan Reading Journal

No abstract provided.

Spring 2020 | Start Learning Swahili, A Vital Economic Language, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Linguistics Colloquium | Teaching Humor In The Esl Classroom, Oct. 23, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.