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Sending Messages By Telephone, A. Ross Eckler
Sending Messages By Telephone, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Although the telephone conveys the spoken word with ease, it is illsuited for the written one needed for pagers or communication with the deaf. The telephone keypad contains only ten alternatives (something twelve), far fewer than the 26 alphabetic letters plus space, which means that a single press of a button is ambiguous. The traditional arrangement ABC/DEF/GHI/JKL/MNO/PRS/TUV/WXY omits Q and Z, but these can be understood to be in their normal positions.
In Words Of One Syllable, Frederick Crane
In Words Of One Syllable, Frederick Crane
Word Ways
There are those who claim that the best way to set free the work of one who would make art is to set curbs, that one must clip one's own wings to be free to fly. There are the twelve tone folks, and there are some who write whole books that have not one word at all with an e in it (see Word Ways of May of two years back, page four score less nine).
The Morristown Fables: Part 4, Peter Newby
The Morristown Fables: Part 4, Peter Newby
Word Ways
Ross and Faith Begorrah enjoyed their roast chicken with relish. At last, they had rid themselves of that stupid talking hen which had been the bane of their life and mantlepiece of what seemed like an age.
Paper Caper, Stephen Sniderman
Paper Caper, Stephen Sniderman
Word Ways
The object of this game is to find more sets of rhyming words on a particular page than your opponents. To start the game, each player is given a magazine or book, which s/he should open to nay page s/he wishes. Players are then given a specified amount of time (three minutes seems reasonable) to find and write down sets of rhyming words on the page in front of them. To qualify as a rhyme, two words must have the same number of syllables, must be accented on the same syllable, must have different sounds at the beginning of the …
The Information Superhighway, Mike Morton
The Information Superhighway, Mike Morton
Word Ways
Recently I received email which informed me that INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY anagrams to I'M ON A HUGE WISPY RHINO FART. I couldn't let this pass without comment, and enclose a list which Word Ways readers might enjoy.
A Story With A Palindromic Larom, Andrew Belsey
A Story With A Palindromic Larom, Andrew Belsey
Word Ways
It is not often that science comes to the aid of literature. But here is a case in which a development in science makes a difference to literature, and indeed could have made a difference to life and death themselves.
The Anglo-American Hyphen, Peter Newby
The Anglo-American Hyphen, Peter Newby
Word Ways
When Queen Victoria was offered a choice of four names for one of her newer overseas possessions, she opted for Fiji as she linked its three dots. In contrast to this word-loving monarch (who is credited with having invented the double acrostic), a conspiracy of lexicogrpahers, those responsible for the OED, spent a large part of her reign introducing a form of word vandalism, the unnecessary hyphen.
See It Now On Tv!, Mary J. Hazard
See It Now On Tv!, Mary J. Hazard
Word Ways
Luv Is Void A best-bet arty film. Betty Boop's ex (gimpy guy) seen in Rome. He tried to buy a hot forty-foot one-ton lorry; now the jig is up!
Another Dictionary Curio, Christopher Mcmanus
Another Dictionary Curio, Christopher Mcmanus
Word Ways
Abridged basic dictionaries are rarely plumbed by serious word-watchers. In the February 1995 Word Ways, I enumerated the unique and fascinating features of one such elementary dictionary. In continuing to search for its antecedents and variants, I discovered a separate family of intriguing student dictionaries.
Familiarity Breeds Confusion, Richard Lederer
Familiarity Breeds Confusion, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
Here's a game to whet your appetite, or (great expectorations!) wet your appetite for spelling challenges.
Updating Gary Gray And Edna Dean, A. Ross Eckler
Updating Gary Gray And Edna Dean, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
In the May 1986 Word Ways I described a search of telephone directories of individuals whose given names are transpositions of their surnames, as examplified by the title of this article. Such a search has been made far easier by the advent of PhoneDisc, described in the May 1991 Word Ways, which consists of two CD-ROM disks that claim to include 90 million names, addresses and telephone numbers of US residents. The table below extends the one given in the earlier article; numbers in parenthesis give the counts found earlier.
Kickshaws, David Morice
Unlikely Menus, Mary Christie Craig
Unlikely Menus, Mary Christie Craig
Word Ways
Ever since I heard the joke "What do honeymooners eat" (Lettuce alone). I've been making up unlikely menus to fit every taste, mood and culture. Here are a few.
New Lighweights And Heavyweights, Susan Thorpe
New Lighweights And Heavyweights, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
In the November 1972 issue of Word Ways, Darryl Francis listed the lightest and heaviest words (assigning A = 1, B = 2, etc.) of lengths up to, and including, 15 letters. Some 23 years later, in the August 1995 issue. Leonard Gordon responded to Darryl's suggestion of 1972 that "Perhaps some enterprising Word Ways readers would like to extend our work, investigating words with more than fifteen letters by repeating the exercise for words of 16 to 24 letters. He also improved two of Darryl's original examples.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.
Neuro-Fuzzy Models For Classification And Rule Generation., Sushmita Mitra Dr.
Neuro-Fuzzy Models For Classification And Rule Generation., Sushmita Mitra Dr.
Doctoral Theses
Machine recognition [1, 2] of patterns can be viewed as a two-fold task, consisting of learning the invariant and common properties of a set of samples characterizing a class, and of deciding a new sample as a possible member of the class by noting that it has properties common to those of the set of samples. In other words, pattern recognition by computers can be described as a transformation from the measurenment space M to the feature space F and finally to the decision space D (1), i.e., M ⟶F⟶D.Here, the mapping 6 : F⟶D is the decision function and …
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 28 Issue 3
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 28 Issue 3
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Alphabet Poems: A Brief History, Nyr Indictor
Alphabet Poems: A Brief History, Nyr Indictor
Word Ways
As a collector of alphabet books, and sometime editor of a newsletter on the subject, I have had many opportunities to consider the history of the alphabet poem. Although alphabet poems may take a wide range of forms, most are generally divided into twenty-six parts (lines, couplets, stanze...), one for each letter.
A Note On 3-Dimensional Graphs, Leonard Gordon
A Note On 3-Dimensional Graphs, Leonard Gordon
Word Ways
Tetrahedron stacking, illustrated below, is a spherical close packing that is identical to cannonball stacking. It neither dominates nor is dominated by two-dimensional k-graphing or s-graphing (discussed in my Feb 1995 Word ways article).
Sisyphus And The Rockettes, Susan Klinke
Sisyphus And The Rockettes, Susan Klinke
Word Ways
Sisyphus was sentenced by the gods to roll that rock up the hill for all eternity only to see it roll back down. So, was he condemned to a life in vain because no effort on his part could ever get that rock over the top? I think he eventually replaced that impossible goal with a different one: the sport (or the art?) of playfully testing the limits of a prison he knew he could never escape. By redefining his task, he made his condemnation work for him: he suffused it with form and meaning.
Japanese Heist-Slang, Peter Constantine
Japanese Heist-Slang, Peter Constantine
Word Ways
Iceman, crasher, penny-weigher, sniper, jackroller, screwman, hugger-mugger, thief; take a group of average Americans on a linguistic underworld tour of the South Bronx, and they would throw up their hands in despair at the unintelligible, fast-flying words that snipe from street and even the most tongue-tied will begin to pick up the street jargon as they meet the local in-crowd.
Alphomes, Susan Thorpe
Alphomes, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
Crossword aficionados, in order to solve anagrams, can arrange the letters of the problem word in strict alphabetical order and then consult references such as an anagram dictionary in which the alphabetically-ordered sets of letters are themselves arranged in alphabetical order. Each entry lists one or more words that can be formed from the particular ingenuity of its title.
Glenelg: History Of A Palindrome, Dan Tilque
Glenelg: History Of A Palindrome, Dan Tilque
Word Ways
It lies in an obscure corner of Scotland, facing the Isle of Skye across the Sound of Sleat. It's accessible only by a single road across the steep Highland hills. It's a remote Highland town that would be totally uninteresting to anyone but it's inhabitants except for the symmetry of its name: GLENELG.
Extending Francis
Word Ways
In the May 1995 Word Ways, Darryl Francis gave examples of words having every numberical score of 1 (a) to 24B (superstitiously), and challenged readers to come up with a word scoring 249. Leonard Gordon suggested pyknodysostotics, pericardiomiastinitis, electroencephalographers, hexanitrodiphenylamine ... all but the first and last in Webster's Second or Third or inferrable form it.
New Punctuation, New Meaning, David G. Armstrong
New Punctuation, New Meaning, David G. Armstrong
Word Ways
Walsh's Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities (Lippincott, 1892) relates the more-or-less apocryphal story of the soldier who asked an oracle if it were safe to go off to war. He chose to interpret the oracle's reply (Ibis redibis no moreiris in bello) with a comma after redibis which, translated, means "You will go, you will return, you will not die in battle: but as he lay dying on the battlefield he realized that the message could instead be read with the comma after non: "You will go, you will return not, you will die in battle."
Some More Quality 8-Squares, Richard Sabey
Some More Quality 8-Squares, Richard Sabey
Word Ways
The following regular eight-squares are the result of a computer search using the Air Force list of words from Webster's Second New International Dictionary and from the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD), together with some inflections from Chambers English Dictionary. There are 45,594 words in the list; 315 squares were found.
Non-Transitive Word Games, Jeremiah Farrell
Non-Transitive Word Games, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
"Longer than" is a binary relation R on the set of words with the property that whenever a R b and b R c, we always have a R c. Such relations are called transitive and examples abound: "shorter than", "precedes lexicographically", "scores higher in Scrabble than", etc." Transitive relations often impose a kind of "can you top this" attitude among logologists: "what is the longest word you know?" In this article we wish to avoid transitive relations, and instead play word games that have no "best" answer.
Words That Never Stray, Richard Lederer, Al Greengold
Words That Never Stray, Richard Lederer, Al Greengold
Word Ways
Hoping to make some clean lucre, we're going to get a discussion in edgewise about a special category of words. Unless we give this topic long shift, we'll be in rotten fettle and guilty of immoral turpitude. Please don't hurl aspersions at these words. We'd prefer that your dander and hackles be down. Rather feeling luke cool, you'll be waiting until bated curiosity.