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Zesty Zeugmas, Paul Hellweg
Zesty Zeugmas, Paul Hellweg
Word Ways
The zeugma has wordplay potential that, to the best of my knowledge, has not been previously explored in Word Ways. A grammatically correct zeugma has a certain charm that has inspired me to collect these literary constructions. And, in the same vein, the beauty of the well-constructed zeugma has inspired me to create my own.
Oprah's Not Over 'Til Harpo Returns, Bert N. Weepy
Oprah's Not Over 'Til Harpo Returns, Bert N. Weepy
Word Ways
Peter Newby's theory of 'Arepoid' word squares being merely classical recreational linguistics is fine as far as it goes, but he marred his discussion by supplying "perfect" examples of English construction. If, as he suggests, AREPO is a non-word, then each of his squares also should have contained a non-word.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Vollume 26 Issue 1
Front Cover And Publication Information, Vollume 26 Issue 1
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Mathematics And Wordplay, Martin Gardner
Mathematics And Wordplay, Martin Gardner
Word Ways
Many mathematicians enjoy wordplay, and for obvious reasons. It is almost a branch of combinatorial mathematics. The pleasure derived from solving a combinatorial problem is very much like the pleasure of solving a cryptogram or a crossword puzzle, or constructing a good palindrome.
Mathematics Of Square Construction, Chris Long
Alphabetical Patterns, A. Ross Eckler
Alphabetical Patterns, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Readers of Word Ways should be familiar with the concept of word patterns, exemplified by Jack Levine's three-volume rearrangement of Webster's Second and Third Editions into groups of words having the same pattern such as EXCESS and BAMBOO. (Word patterns have even been discussed in large-circulation magazines: see physicist Sheldon Glashow's "The Game of Bop" in the Sep/Oct 1992 issue of Quantum.)
Elvis Lives, Darryl Francis
Elvis Lives, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
ELVIS LIVES says the graffiti. You've seen it on tee-shirts, in headlines in the popular press, and on dozens of other items of an ephemeral nature. While the average reader of this particular item of graffiti probably notices that ELVIS and LIVES use the same letters, he or she probably muses over it for not more than a second or two, thinking how appropriate/cute/sad, before dismissing the matter. The serious logologist, however, gives the matter more attention.
Crossnumber Forms, David Morice
Crossnumber Forms, David Morice
Word Ways
At a local soda fountain last year, Lloyd Quibble, a create poet friend of mine, showed me a grid that linked four number words in an unusual way. On first glance, I thought such a creation must be a rare glitch of language, maybe unique.
Sliding-Block Anagram Puzzle, Leonard Gordon
Sliding-Block Anagram Puzzle, Leonard Gordon
Word Ways
Here is a project that might appeal to the anagrammers among Word Ways readers. Anagramming is not my game, but maybe others can come up with something clever.
1970-Point One-Move Scrabble, Jeff Grant
1970-Point One-Move Scrabble, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
In the May 1979 issue of Word Ways I modified Ron Jerome's 1961-point single-move Scrabble score using open sources, adding another point to it. Then in the August 1979 issue further modifications enabled another three points to be eked out. By altering four of the scouring words, I have now been able to push the total up to 1970 points, which may be approaching the limit for the bets known base-word BENZOXYCAMPHORS.
Name Those Presidents!, Richard Lederer
Name Those Presidents!, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
I wish that Ross Perot had been elected president of the United States.
A Survey Of Directed Word Chains, Leonard Gordon
A Survey Of Directed Word Chains, Leonard Gordon
Word Ways
The idea of making chains by overlapping words is due to H. E. Dudeney, and is probably a follow-on of Lewis Carroll's word ladders. Dudeney used words of uniform length and constant overlap. Christopher McManus introduced Word Ways readers in November 1990 to Ana-Gram-mar (AGM) chains, ones in which the word length may vary, but there is always single overlap (each letter appears in exactly two words): house-man-slaughter-house, and gossy-pol-yester-morning-tide-water.
Century Words, Susan Thorpe
Century Words, Susan Thorpe
Word Ways
In the use of alphanumeric scoring (A=1, B=2, etc.), attention has been given to the discovery of the 'lightest' and 'heaviest' words of a given length (Darryl Francis, 'Lighweights and Heavyweights', November 1972; Charles Bostick, 'Word Weights', May 1974; and Tom Pulliam in the November 1979 Colloquy). An alternative exercise, also based on alphanumeric scoring, is to discover the longest and shortest words having a given score, in this case 100.
Opera's Not Over 'Til Arepo Returns, Peter Newby
Opera's Not Over 'Til Arepo Returns, Peter Newby
Word Ways
With the recent discovery in the north of England of yet another example of the famous Latin palindromic square illustrated at the left, it is time to review the mystery surrounding this clever construction. Found at an archeological site in Manchester, this joins the other discoveries in various sites throughout the lands of the former Roman Empire.
Cryptickles, Vernon D. Maclaren
Cryptickles, Vernon D. Maclaren
Word Ways
In the November 1992 Kickshaws, Dave Morice quotes Mike Reiss "I'll wager that there is a word, common phrase, or well-known title that will cryptically clue every letter of the alphabet". Indeed there is; cryptic crossword constructors have been weaving their magic for over half a century. I add the following to the original list (also included).
Tom Swiftie Potpourri, Mary Christie Craig
Tom Swiftie Potpourri, Mary Christie Craig
Word Ways
I've found a productive way to pass the time when I'm waiting unpatiently in a doctor's or dentist's office: I manufacture Tom Swifties. Remember them? They were the word game rage 25 years ago. Maybe it's time for a comeback, she reparteed.
Kickshaws, David Morice
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles and games contained in this issue.
Reading Between The Lines, Christopher Mcmanus
Reading Between The Lines, Christopher Mcmanus
Word Ways
Computers are usually blamed for the rise in newspaper linesetting errors. We have all frequently had the experience: reading to the end of one line of text, only to find that the next line has no grammatical connection. The answer is usually a dropped line or transposed lines. If several lines are printed in scrambled order, the rest can be a challenge to re-order.
Bottoms Up!
Word Ways
The evidence provided by the work of over a century of expert human formists, combined with that of several years of computer experiments by me, is unequivocal: all other things being equal, there is an enormous advantage to building large forms from the bottom word up, instead of from the top word down.
Second Language Acquisition: The Application Of The Mentalist Theory To The Linguistic Behaviors Of A Second Language Learner, Natalie A. Nevin
Second Language Acquisition: The Application Of The Mentalist Theory To The Linguistic Behaviors Of A Second Language Learner, Natalie A. Nevin
Whittier Scholars Program
The field of second language acquisition research is currently a little over 20 years old. It has borrowed much of its methodology from research in first language acquisition. From its beginnings, the focus of interest regarding second language acquisition has shifted from the external linguistic environment to the internal cognitive mechanics of the learner. The Mentalist theory is one of the major theoretical positions in the field. Researchers in second language acquisition are searching several issues; one source of controversy is the role of linguistic input on the acquisition of the second language. The project will present a case study …
The Intelligibility Of Japanese Speakers Of English To Native Speakers Of English, Manabu Aoki
The Intelligibility Of Japanese Speakers Of English To Native Speakers Of English, Manabu Aoki
All Master's Theses
This research was conducted to identify the most important English speech sounds which determine non-native English speakers' intelligibility to native speakers of English. The researcher focused on variation of pronunciation by Japanese English speakers of differing levels of proficiency and examined the correlation between their pronunciation and intelligibility to native speakers. The results provided some keys to intelligible English speech and some implications for developing comprehensible speech in teaching English as a second language or English as a foreign language.
The Effects Of Child-Directed Speech Vs Adult-Directed Speech On Attention And Categorization In Prelinguistic Infants, Jean M. Schumacher
The Effects Of Child-Directed Speech Vs Adult-Directed Speech On Attention And Categorization In Prelinguistic Infants, Jean M. Schumacher
Student Work
The facilitative role of linguistic input on nonlinguistic categorization is frequently explained in terms of children's attention to uniquely linguistic forms such as words. In the three experiments reported here, 15-month-old infants were familiarized to visual stimuli in the context of hearing either adult-directed speech (ADS) or child-directed speech (CDS) during visual fixations. Categorization was successful with CDS and ADS input when accumulated attention was not constrained (Experiment 1). Moreover, there were no differences in accumulated attention as a function of input type. When attention was constrained to 90 seconds (Experiments 2 and 3), ADS input disrupted categorization more for …
Is Anaphoric Resolution Instruction More Effective Than Existing Instruction At Improving The Reading Comprehension Achievement Of Secondary Students With Poor Reading Comprehension?, Christian Busing
Theses : Honours
This study examined the effect of teaching anaphoric resolution skills on the reading comprehension of Year 10 students with poor reading comprehension. Two direct teaching programmes, an anaphoric resolution programme (A.R.Programme) and a reading comprehension skills programme based on the Unit curriculum objectives of the Ministry of Education of Western Australia (U.C. Programme), were developed and taught to two groups of eleven Year 10 poor reading comprehenders. The two groups were pretested and posttested for anaphoric resolution skill and reading comprehension achievement, and the increases in mean scores were compared for significant differences using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). The Anova …
It's Raining, It's Pouring, Kay Haugaard
It's Raining, It's Pouring, Kay Haugaard
Word Ways
Do teachers still tell students not to say "They say summer's going to be cool" or "They say magenta and turquoise are the hot new colors" because "they" in this usage is too indefinite? "Who does it refer to?" was always the standard question my teacher posed. "Who are 'they' and who are doing all these things?" she would ask emphatically, then go into something about antecedents.
New Phonetic Name Search Algorithm, Alan Frank
New Phonetic Name Search Algorithm, Alan Frank
Word Ways
Telephone books work because the listings are generated in a way that ensures that the company has the correct spelling of your name, and when your friends look you up, they'll also generally have a pretty good idea of how it's spelled.
Roller-Coaster Word Chains, Leonard Gordon
Roller-Coaster Word Chains, Leonard Gordon
Word Ways
In the Nov 1990 issue of Word Ways, Christopher McManus suggests finding ana-gram-mar chains in which word lengths increase and then decrease along the chain. Since jillions of ana-gram-mar chains are possible,k this is a good way to provide limits, but his idea can be improved by a more restrictive rule: increase or decrease in word length must be without halts, i.e., without inclusion of the chains of words of the same size. What is the longest chain with this new rule? Some fairly long ones are given below.
On Word-Botching, Ted Clarke