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Advice-Versa, Stephen Sniderman Feb 1996

Advice-Versa, Stephen Sniderman

Word Ways

Much of what passes for advice is, on examination, self-contradictory, "Never give anyone advice," "Don't listen to what others tell you," "God-damn all profanity," and "Avoid iambic meter, son" are examples. In the quiz below, thirty bits of paradoxical linguistic "advice" have been split into two parts, the first in the left-hand column and the second in the right-hand one. Can you re-combine each half with its illogical mate? Answers are found in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue.

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Kickshaws, David Morice Feb 1996

Kickshaws, David Morice

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

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More Transposable Names, David S. Robinson Feb 1996

More Transposable Names, David S. Robinson

Word Ways

In the November 1995 Word Ways, the editor listed 26 different names such as EDNA DEAN or GARY GRAY. I have found 27 more, listed below.

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Barnyard Charades, Christopher Mcmanus Feb 1996

Barnyard Charades, Christopher Mcmanus

Word Ways

Farmers are artists whose canvas is the land. They combine natural elements such as seeds, dirt, rain and sun to create copious new forms. Analogously, many farm-related words can be combined in word charades, to create a bumper crop of new word forms. Examples include EGG + PLANT, BULL + ION, STY + MY AND MOO+RING.

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It's Greek To Me, Leonard R. N. Ashley Feb 1996

It's Greek To Me, Leonard R. N. Ashley

Word Ways

The Greek grammarians and rhetoricians saddled subsequent cultures in the West with awkward and somewhat ugly terms for the discussions of speaking and writing. Take Paradiorthosis, as when we allude to a quotation that does not need to be identified but is given a new twist.

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Queen's-Move Graphing, A. Ross Eckler Feb 1996

Queen's-Move Graphing, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

In chess, the queen is the most versatile piece, moving in any of eight directions; unlike the king, which is constrained to move only one square at a time, she can move in a straight line until another piece is encountered. Translated to logology, this means that any word whose separate letters can be placed on chessboard squares so that it can be spelled out by a king, will also be spelled out by a queen. Furthermore, there will exist some words that can only be spelled out by queen's moves.

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An Existential Alphabet, Nyr Indictor Feb 1996

An Existential Alphabet, Nyr Indictor

Word Ways

This quiz was inspired by Scot Morris of Omni magazine, who is always looking for odd alphabets. The following sequence of words and phrases lacks an entry for X. Why? Can you identify the principle that links all of these terms? Answers are in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue.

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Licensed Confusion, Mike Morton Feb 1996

Licensed Confusion, Mike Morton

Word Ways

Some politicians have proposed that prisoners need to have jobs and improve their literacy skills. In a pilot project, prisoners went back to their traditional job of making license plates. To meet the educational goals of the program, prisoners had to look up the capital city of each of the fifty U.S. states and five territories, and make plates with the capital's name instead of the usual slogan. For instance, they were supposed to replace ALOHA STATE with HONOLULU, HAWAII.

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Back Cover Feb 1996

Back Cover

Word Ways

Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways.

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Answers And Solutions Feb 1996

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.

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Barbara's Fart Creates A Fracas, Jill Rosenthal, Tony Saletan Feb 1996

Barbara's Fart Creates A Fracas, Jill Rosenthal, Tony Saletan

Word Ways

We read address, swerved, veered car at West Exeter Street; we were at Barbara's fete, as were Vera, Bert, Bart, Dave, Fred, Sara, Steve. Actress Barbara, a faded stage star, fretted re: fat, crafted decreased-stew, beer bread, watercress, grated feta, brew, sweet dessert served were fat-free.

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Modifying Sievers: A Theory Of Word Groups In Old English Meter, James Keddie Jan 1996

Modifying Sievers: A Theory Of Word Groups In Old English Meter, James Keddie

Digitized Theses

The classic explanation of Old English meter, Eduard Sievers' Theory of Five Types, has a number of faults. Because it offers a pragmatic description of verse-patterns rather than a justification for them, it is less a theory than a taxonomy. There is inconsistency as to where metrical stress occurs, and the role of resolution. The updated version by A. J. Bliss adds to these faults a proliferation of categories that detracts from the original simplicity of the Types. Recent proposals to simplify resolution or to rely on alliteration solve some problems, but crate others.;The solution proposed here is to allow …

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Connecting Language Through Reading Comprehension And Word Recognition Activities, D. M. Slaven Jan 1996

Connecting Language Through Reading Comprehension And Word Recognition Activities, D. M. Slaven

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Deux Niveaux D'Expression Du Systeme Aspectuel-Temporel En Francais., You Qi He Jan 1996

Deux Niveaux D'Expression Du Systeme Aspectuel-Temporel En Francais., You Qi He

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

There are, among natural languages in the world, two modes of temporal expression: tensed languages use morphological means to express time relationships; whereas tenseless languages use only lexical, co-textual and/or contextual means in their temporal expression. In fact, we can also identify two modes of temporal expression among different moods in French. The Indicative Mood uses morphological means to expresse time relationships; whereas with moods other than the Indicative (i.e. the Infinitive, the Participle, the Subjunctive and the Conditional), the utterer has to recourse to lexical, co-textual and/or contextual indication to distinguish different time relationships. Furthermore, within the forms of …

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Famine, Plague, And Greed: Socio-Historical Factors Affecting The Development Of The Middle English Dialect Of London., George Vincent Yonek Jan 1996

Famine, Plague, And Greed: Socio-Historical Factors Affecting The Development Of The Middle English Dialect Of London., George Vincent Yonek

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

A significant factor in the rise of Standard English was the importance of London as a center of commerce and government, yet the foundation for Modern Standard English is not derived from the Southern dialects, which heavily influenced London in the late Old English and early Middle English period. The variety of English we speak and write today is derived mainly from the East Midland dialect and, to a lesser extent, the North in late Middle English. The purpose of this thesis is to explore the socio-historical causes behind this change in the distribution of features of the London dialect. …

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Learning To Hear New Speech Sounds: A Dynamical Approach, Pamela S. Case Jan 1996

Learning To Hear New Speech Sounds: A Dynamical Approach, Pamela S. Case

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

When adults attempt to learn new speech sounds, they do so in the context of the phonology of their native language. The purpose of the present work is to investigate the nature of the learning process; that is, to examine, in individuals, (1) the process of acquiring a new phonetic category, (2) the impact of learning a new phonetic category on a similar, existing category, and (3) transfer of learning to a novel phonetic context. Monolingual American English speakers were required to learn the Hindi voiced, unaspirated, dental stop consonant. Two synthetic speech continua (one voiced, the other voiceless) were …

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Local Contextual Impenetrability Of Lexical Access And Gap-Filling: A Comparison Of Outcomes From Cross-Modal Lexical Priming And Word-By-Word Reading Tasks, James Robert Lewis Jan 1996

Local Contextual Impenetrability Of Lexical Access And Gap-Filling: A Comparison Of Outcomes From Cross-Modal Lexical Priming And Word-By-Word Reading Tasks, James Robert Lewis

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999

Contextual impenetrability is the measurable consequence of informational encapsulation, which is a key feature of input systems hypothesized to be modular. The data from the current psycholinguistic literature do not clearly converge on support for or refutation of the modularity hypothesis with regard to the existence of contextual impenetrability for lexical access and gap-filling. Most previous research has focused on the influence of global context on lexical access. The experiments in this dissertation explore a more local context imposed by the argument structure and lexical conceptual structure of a verb on its direct object. The primary goal for this dissertation …

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Historical Roots Of Structural Ambiguities In English: A Survey Of Some Selected Grammatical Features, Dallin D. Oaks Jan 1996

Historical Roots Of Structural Ambiguities In English: A Survey Of Some Selected Grammatical Features, Dallin D. Oaks

Faculty Publications

English is a language with many possibilities for wordplay, and word lay has been exploited by entertainers and advertisers. At times it involves simple puns, and at other times complex structural plays on words. Important developments in the history of the English language contribute to the current possibilities for word play. This article will examine some of these developments that have contributed specifically to wordplay involving structural ambiguities.

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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 28 Issue 4 Nov 1995

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 28 Issue 4

Word Ways

Front cover and publication information for this issue.

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Some Men Enjoy Oysters, A. Ross Eckler Nov 1995

Some Men Enjoy Oysters, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

On October 30, 1994, puzzlermaster Will Shortz of the Weekend Edition on National Public Radio, challenged his listeners to construct chain-link sentences, ones in which the last two letters of each word are repeated as the first two letters of the succeeding word. He gave his audience extra time, allowing them two weeks in which to send in answers before announcing the winner on November 13. The winner, followed by the four runners-up, was

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A Line-End Alphabet Poem, Sir Jeremy Morse Nov 1995

A Line-End Alphabet Poem, Sir Jeremy Morse

Word Ways

...alphabetic telestics in which the alphabet is at line-end appear to be quite rare. I know of none; I challenge readers to create one that rhymes...

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8-Letter And 9-Letter Word Networks, Leonard Gordon Nov 1995

8-Letter And 9-Letter Word Networks, Leonard Gordon

Word Ways

My first contributions to Word Ways were on word ladders and networks. In "Word Network Spans in the OSPD" in Feb 1989, I analyzed 4-letter, 5-letter and 6-letter word lists; in "More Network SPans in the OSPD" in AUgust 1990 I briefly studied 7-letter and 8-letter words. This was the limit of my computer capabilities at the time. Since then I have doubled the side of my lists, mostly with Webster's Second words, but I have also upgraded my computer and DOS. Here is a new study of 8-letter and 9-letter words. Part of my objective was to find ideal …

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Possessionlessness Pluralized?, David G. Armstrong Nov 1995

Possessionlessness Pluralized?, David G. Armstrong

Word Ways

I cannot let pass without protest the use, in Susan Thorpe's otherwise excellent article (Word Ways, Aug 1995) of POSSESSIONLESSNESSES. People who have possessions may have a wide variety of kinds and numbers of possessionfulnesses. But if several such persons were to lose their possessions would all be reduced to the null set and they would share in common a unique and singular possessionlessness, for which no plural is admissible.

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Colloquy Nov 1995

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

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A Spooner-Assisted Ten-Square, Jeff Grant Nov 1995

A Spooner-Assisted Ten-Square, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

"In Search of the Ten-Square" in the November 1990 Word Ways featured in a manually-constructed square with reasonable 10-letter terms in every position. The ASTRALISED 10-square is arguably the finest of its type so Spooner, an interesting variation of this square is possible.

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Rejoinders, Stephen Sniderman Nov 1995

Rejoinders, Stephen Sniderman

Word Ways

Would you like to join the tennis club? I'd LOVE to! How about the Sierra Club? NATURally! And the cereal club? Not on your LIFE! The Action Club? AFFIRMATIVE! You get the idea. In the two puzzles below, try to match each invitation in the left-hand column with the appropriate reJOINder in the right-hand column. If you think some are unforgivably awful puns, join the club! Se Answers and Solutions for the answers.

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Senescent Sentences: Ten Scenes, Nyr Indictor Nov 1995

Senescent Sentences: Ten Scenes, Nyr Indictor

Word Ways

Staring at my tube of toothpaste the other morning, I noticed the word GINGIVITIS. It occurred to me that this was an anagram of IS IT GIVING. Having nothing better to do while brushing my teeth, I started pondering the significance of sentences that may be broken down into components which are anagrams of each other, like "Is it giving ! gingivitis?" and "The potato's ! short a poet, ! past the too-!hot-to-paste ! toothpaste." By the time I had finished brushing, the basic of the game of Senescent Sentences had been formulated.

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Square And Triangular Number-Names, Monte J. Zerger Nov 1995

Square And Triangular Number-Names, Monte J. Zerger

Word Ways

In the mathematics of sets the cardinality of a collection of object is defined to be the number of objects in the collection, and is denoted by placing vertical bars around a listing of that collection. Following that convention we write !FOUR! = 4 or !SEVEN! = 5.

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A Modest Proposal, Bob Maier Nov 1995

A Modest Proposal, Bob Maier

Word Ways

As you already know, a palindrome is a word or phrase that spells the same way forward and backward. Some examples are BOB, MADAM I'M ADAM and A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL: PANAMA.

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Madam, I'M Adam (Sir, I'M Iris), Howard Richler Nov 1995

Madam, I'M Adam (Sir, I'M Iris), Howard Richler

Word Ways

Given names figure prominently in palindromic utterances. There are two main reasons for this. Many are quite short, and thus easy to manipulate palindromically. Also, a higher percentage of given names than ordinary English words end in the vowels A or I which serve as excellent palindromic connectors.

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