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Designing A List For Word Squares, Leonard Gordon
Designing A List For Word Squares, Leonard Gordon
Word Ways
In "Bottom Up!" in the February 1993 Word Ways, Eric Albert asserts that searching for word squares with or without a computer is faster if the search is made bottom-up. In "Which Way to the Square?" in the May Word Ways, Richard Sabey contradicts this assertion; he finds that for 8x8 squares from the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) top-down is considerably faster.
Honorificabilitudinitatibus: A Sonata, William Gillespie
Honorificabilitudinitatibus: A Sonata, William Gillespie
Word Ways
The following poem is a feminist treatise about the exclusion and characterization of women in literature. It is written under a literary constraint the reader is invited to discover.
When There's A Will..., A. Ross Eckler
When There's A Will..., A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The May 1996 Word Ways described the results of a National Public Radio competition of December 1995 in which listeners were challenged to write grammatical and understandable sentences containing the same word four or more times in succession. The largest number of entries involved the use of the word will: puzzlemeister Will Shortz was featured in many, either writing a will or exhibiting will and determination.
Heavyweight Terms, Darryl Francis
Heavyweight Terms, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
In the May 1995 Word Ways, I offered a list of words having weights 1 to 250. The weight of a word is calculated by setting A=1, B=2, and so on, and summing the various letter values. For example k the weight of the word DOG is 26, the sum of 4, 15, and 7
Vine Of Life, Jan Anderson
Revisiting The Beasiary, Leonard Gordon
Revisiting The Beasiary, Leonard Gordon
Word Ways
In the May 1996 Word Way I exhibited a bestiary of symmetric graphs showing how the different letters of a word interconnect. Subsequently I realized that I could introduce instructions into my computer program so that it could do more than select words whose letters had a desired set of connective numbers (for example, ACETOVERATRONE 22234445: V,C,N form bigrams with two other letters apiece, A forms bigrams with three other letters, etc.).
Ascending Magnitudes For K-Graphs, Dan Tilque
Ascending Magnitudes For K-Graphs, Dan Tilque
Word Ways
In the May 1994 Word Ways, Lee Sallows published a K-graph containing the number words ONE through NINE. He then set several challenges, one of which was to find the K-graph which had the most numbers total, regardless of consecutivity.
Vowel Mates, Susan Thorpe
Vowel Mates, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
What do Samuel Plimsoll, Titus Oates, Bela Lugosi, Chou En-Lai, Count Basie, Don Quarrie (a sprinter), Arthur Mitten Brown (an aviator) and John Barry Humphries have in common? The answer is that their names include one of each of the five vowels a,e,i,o and u--they are aeiou people. So are Rosalind Russell and (gorgeous) Gussie Moran (a tennis player).
Calendar Curiosa, Monte J. Zerger
Calendar Curiosa, Monte J. Zerger
Word Ways
What do Hallowe'en (OCT 31) and Christmas (DEC 25) have in common beside both being festivals, one commemorating death and the other birth? I'll give you the answers at the end of this article, but the way the dates are expressed inside the parentheses is a hint.
Kickshaws, David Morice
Mallarme's Cigar-Sonnet: Part 2, Paul Maxim
Mallarme's Cigar-Sonnet: Part 2, Paul Maxim
Word Ways
Introduction. This article is the second in a series analyzing Mallarme's hermetic sonnet, Toute l'ame resumee (The whole soul summed up), which he published as "a game" in 1895. In the previous part (February 1996), we showed how the poem's internal dynamic processes are designed around a cryptogrammatic sequence which begins when the letters of la cendre ('ash') are subtracted from son clai baiser de feu ("it's bright kiss of fire"), so as to yield an eleven-letter residue, SOIR BAIS FEU which is then subjected to further processing.
Oh, You Beast!, Kay Haugaard
Oh, You Beast!, Kay Haugaard
Word Ways
Once upon a time there was a young chick who thought the world was her oyster and set out to find the bluebird of happiness. She was no dumb bunny and not the least bit squirrely so she got a bee in her bonnet to join the rat race working in an office as a gopher. Soon she was working in a back room with several others, all crammed in like sardines.
Queen's-Move Graphing Revisited, A. Ross Eckler
Queen's-Move Graphing Revisited, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The February 1996 Word Ways introduced the concept of a queen's-move-graphable word: place the different letters of a word on a chessboard (extended beyond 8x8, if needed) so as to allow a chess queen to move horizontally, vertically or diagonally to spell out the word in the question.
Who's That Again?, Thomas L. Bernard
Who's That Again?, Thomas L. Bernard
Word Ways
When a student came to my office to introduce himself as Roy King, my onomastic perception quotient was immediately activated; I realized that what I had here was a prime example of an onomastic tautology. For the cognoscenti, further explanation of this is probably not necessary, but as I often find myself in the rands of the incognoscenti, let me explain that even though the words have different linguistic origins, they denote the same idea and have the same meaning. (Roy is French or Anglo-American for "King.")
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.
Geograms And Internet Logology, Nyr Indictor
Geograms And Internet Logology, Nyr Indictor
Word Ways
In previous issues readers have been challenged to think of words which are composed of the two-letter state abbreviations, like RIME, PANE, and HIND. Recently, a new set of two-letter abbreviations has received widespread recognition, namely the country codes (International Standards Organization, document ISO 3166) that are used to identify locations of internet users.
A Guide To Body English, Richard Lederer
A Guide To Body English, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
Whether you're a high- or low-brow, here's some knee-slapping, rib-tickling fun that you can really sink your teeth into. Try your hand at getting a leg up on some head-to-toe body language. I'm not speaking tongue-in-cheek when I say that, as a rule of thumb, all answers pertain to parts of the body and should be recognizable, inoffensive words.
The Logological Millionaires, Peter Newby
The Logological Millionaires, Peter Newby
Word Ways
Logology has intrigued many writers. George Bernard Shaw, for example, gave us the word GHOTI. Pronounced 'fish', it is a compound of the GH of ENOUGH as the 'f', the O of WOMEN for the 'i' and the TI of EMOTION for the 'sh'. But, few writers have made a fortune from a single piece of wordplay. The exception is a trio--Michael Bagent. Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln--who turned one piece of wordplay into the best-seller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.
Purple People Eater Words, Oren N. Dalton
Purple People Eater Words, Oren N. Dalton
Word Ways
Peter Newby's November 1995 Word Ways article "The Anglo-American Hyphen" arrived in the same mail until the 2 Dec 1995 issue of Science News. In the Biology column of the latter (page 178), this headline appeared: A TREATMENT PLANT-FISH HATCHERY IN ONE -- reminiscent, perhaps, of a medical facility for plant-fish. But since Providence has provided two symbols to clarify such ambiguities, the following is better: A TREATMENT-PLANT/FISH-HATCHERY IN ONE. With loyal fealty, the article followed the style of its title. It began with a 21 year-word/single-sentence paragraph, almost half of which was a 10-word name: East Chicago Sanitary District …
Books A-List Alist, Jan Anderson
Books A-List Alist, Jan Anderson
Word Ways
Below are listed the scrambled titles of 11 current and known non-fiction and 6 fiction books. The scramble refers (perhaps obliquely) to the book's content, as does the "review" (using the same letters) that follows. The scrambled author's name puns on something about him/her or the book. Listings are in alphabetical order by the "real" book titles.
The Lost Volume Seller And Lost Profits Under U.C.C. § 2-708(2): A Conceptual And Linguistic Critique, John M. Breen
The Lost Volume Seller And Lost Profits Under U.C.C. § 2-708(2): A Conceptual And Linguistic Critique, John M. Breen
University of Miami Law Review
No abstract provided.
Which Way To The Square, Richard Sabey
Which Way To The Square, Richard Sabey
Word Ways
Which is the best way for a computer program to search for regular word squares, top-down or bottom-up? This article records some statistics produced during computer searches for regular 8-squares in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. I look forward to similar statistics for 9-squares from those square-hunters whose 9-letter word stocks are more fully developed than my own.
Twenty Consonant Poetry, William Gillespie
Twenty Consonant Poetry, William Gillespie
Word Ways
Twenty Consonant Poetry was developed by skilled poetic researchers working in Urbans, Illinois in 1993. The idea grew out of a joke about twelve-ton music. It was originally used as a learning aid to invoke visions in high school poetry students. Since then, people of widely varying sensibilities have attempted it. It has been used to write stories, scripts, stock reports, limericks, lists of things to do, matrices, songs, political commentary, and cartoons. Unbeknownst to us (at least for awhile). Twenty Consonant Poetry even had its own web page.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 29 Issue 2
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 29 Issue 2
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Modular Ladders, Leonard Gordon, A. Ross Eckler
Modular Ladders, Leonard Gordon, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Most Word Ways readers are familiar with word ladders in which one changes letters one at a time, as CART-CARE-CORE-BORE-BONE. Such ladders can be embedded in word networks, first discussed in the May and August 1973 issues of Word Ways. In particular, one can define the distance between two words in a network as the number of steps in the minimum-length ladder joining these words, and the span of the network as the maximum distance taken over all possible pairs of words in the network.
Of Kangaroos And Joeys, Richard Lederer
Of Kangaroos And Joeys, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
Being a marsupial, a mother kangaroo carries her young in her pouch. Kangaroo words do the same thing: within their letters they conceal a smaller word that means the same as the fully grown word. The smaller synonym I call a joey, the name of a kangaroo's offspring. The joey must appear in order. Buried inside a CATACOMB in the joey TOMB. A PLAGIARIST is a kind of LIAR. Now watch your mind BLOSSOM and, therefore, BLOOM.
Colloquy
Word Ways
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The Commonest 6-Square, M. Douglas Mcilroy
The Commonest 6-Square, M. Douglas Mcilroy
Word Ways
Behold, now OCCURS a find long lost in the CLOSET, blurted out almost like COMEDY--sweat! Our speedy, USEFUL tools that e marvelously REDUCE work alter logological STYLES and vision.