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The Name's The Game, Christopher Mcmanus
The Name's The Game, Christopher Mcmanus
Word Ways
An earlier set of solitaire puzzles based on word charades appeared as "Musical Wordboxes" in the August 1990 Word Ways. The Present article is a sequel with a new theme. The aim of each puzzle below is to arrange the boxes into a square or rectangle in such a way that every horizontal and vertical join forms a common English word. In Figure 1, for example, one vertical join already forms the word LAUGH, and a horizontal join forms ORE.
A Few Tricky Limericks, Douglas Greenwood
A Few Tricky Limericks, Douglas Greenwood
Word Ways
It's been more than a decade since Maxey Brooke surveyed the various ways in which the limerick has been gimmicked (see "Limerick-Gimerick", February 1980). It's time to revisit this specialized niche of wordplay.
Kickshaws, David Morice
Onomatopoeia: The Daily Grind, A. Ross Eckler
Onomatopoeia: The Daily Grind, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
This is the second of two articles on the onomatopoeia of words for sounds produced by inanimate objects; the first article appeared in the May 1991 Word Ways. In that article, a taxonomy was developed relating the pitch and loudness of a sound to the vowel of the word representing it, and the duration to the initial and final consonants (or consonant clusters). The article restricted itself to sounds associated with accidental bumps, bangs or falls of solid objects (both human and inanimate), including the deliberate collisions of war and sport, and the related sounds of friction and breakage.
The Palindromic Dead Sea Scrolls, Howard Richler
The Palindromic Dead Sea Scrolls, Howard Richler
Word Ways
Many Biblical scholars are expecting a bombshell with the recent release of previously-unpublished documents of the Dead Sea Scrolls. They will not be disappointed in discovering that there another document which traces the history of the Bible in palindromic form. Not only in this document written palindromically, but it is written in "English" palindromes.
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Seven), Gwen G. Robinson
The Punctator's World: A Discursion (Part Seven), Gwen G. Robinson
The Courier
Though eighteenth-century grammarians had brought light to the profundities of our subject, their erudition and philosophical remove more often than not disqualified their ideas for popular application. Nineteenth-century scholars were a more practical breed. Their goal was to preserve the integrity of English in afar-flung and diversifying Empire. A standardized language was imperative for perspicuity in communication: for the lingua communis ofpoets and philosophers, as well asfor commerce, science, mass education, and government. In the drive for clarity and uniformity, discussions ofthe values ofthe stops and how they should be appliedformed apart of virtually every nineteenth-century grammar textbook.
Some Aspects Of Multi Source Satellite Image Processing., L. Lalitha Dr.
Some Aspects Of Multi Source Satellite Image Processing., L. Lalitha Dr.
Doctoral Theses
The observation of a target by a device plaoed at some distance from it is cal.led remote sensing as ngainst in situ sensing where the sensor is kept in contact with the target. Usually physical emanations such as the electr omagnetic radiation from the target s observed by the sensing device. Sensors mounted on aircraft or satallite platforms measure the amount of energy reflected from or emitted by the earth's surface. Sensors scan the ground below a nd to either side of the satellite platform and as the platform noves forward, an image of the earths surface is formed.A satellite …
A New Transposal Of Texas, Darryl Francis
A New Transposal Of Texas, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Previous issues of Word Ways have presented transposals of the 50 US statenames, ranging from the legitimate (MINNESOTA to NOMINATES) to the fabricated (NEW MEXICO to X ICEWOMEN).
A Palindromic Trilogy, Brian A. Lenertz
A Palindromic Trilogy, Brian A. Lenertz
Word Ways
Although I have written poetry for many years, it was not until 1984 that I learned of Howard Bergerson's book "Palindromes and Anagrams," stimulating a latent interest in palindromes. (I had long marveled at "Doc, note, I dissent...".) After writing some very odd one-liners, I set out to write an extended palindromic poem.
Shakespeare's First And Last Words, Angus G. James
Double Word Squares, Jeff Grant
Double Word Squares, Jeff Grant
Word Ways
Regular word squares have the same terms across and down, whereas double word squares have different ones. Examples of both types at the relatively simple four-letter level are shown below.
Chinese Stepladders, Leonard J. Gordon
Chinese Stepladders, Leonard J. Gordon
Word Ways
Word Ways readers are familiar with Lewis Carroll's word ladders. As a variation, Dave Morice suggested in the August 1989 Kicksaws a game which he called Stepladders. Two words join only if the letters which are exchanged are adjacent to each other in the alphabet.
Acknowledging The Corn, Peter Newby
Acknowledging The Corn, Peter Newby
Word Ways
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer was born in England on May 2, 1810. He was graduated from Cambridge University with first class hours in 1836. Within five years, Dr. Brewer's first book, "A Guide to Science," was published, and by 1905 it had gone through 47 editions and sold 319,000 copies in England alone.
The Linguistic Genetic Message, Anthony Sebastian
The Linguistic Genetic Message, Anthony Sebastian
Word Ways
In his "Essay on Man," Alexander Pope exhorted, "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; / The proper study of Mankind is Man. / ...The glory, jest, and riddle of the world." To know ourselves is to know the information in the seed from which we sprouted -- we are at least in part the chemical expression of the message encoded by our genes. I suggest that there is encoded in our genes also a linguistic message, a message which semantic content, and that Man is now in a position to decipher it.
Some Capital States?, Faith Eckler
Some Capital States?, Faith Eckler
Word Ways
With the hope of improving the quality of their lives, many folks are turning to published listings of the most desirable states in which to live. These guides use many indicators to rate locations, such as job opportunities, incidence of crime, climate, recreational facilities and access to medical care.
Funny Plurals, Chris Cole
Funny Plurals, Chris Cole
Word Ways
"Humor" has been defined as the sudden occurrence of the unexpected. A funny (humorous) plural, it follows by logologic, is a plural that ends with an unexpected letter. Since most plurals in English are formed by adding an S to the singular, plurals that end with other letters are funny (strange).
Kickshaws, David Morice
He's A Dirty Bird, Mary Stewart Craig
He's A Dirty Bird, Mary Stewart Craig
Word Ways
Editor's Note: Can you find the 83 birds concealed in this story? Answers can be found in Answers and Solutions.
Mississauga, Canada's Oddest City, Howard Richler
Mississauga, Canada's Oddest City, Howard Richler
Word Ways
The numerical positions of all the vowels in the alphabet are odd numbers. Designating their placement by number, we get A=1, E=5, I=9, O=15, U=21 and Y=25. Thus, only words that have no vowels, like NTH (14-20-8) can be written with letters whose numeric alphabetic position is strictly even.
Spanagrams, Lee Sallows
Spanagrams, Lee Sallows
Word Ways
In "The New Merology" (Word Ways, February 1990) I discussed how distinct integers could be assigned to letters so as to produce "perfect" English number words whos gematric value is then equal to the number named.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 25 Number 1
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 25 Number 1
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue.
Halfway Words, Christopher Mcmanus
Halfway Words, Christopher Mcmanus
Word Ways
Letters and numerals stand as atoms and opposing symbols of basic dichotomy: literature versus science, intuition versus logic, creativity versus automation. Since the gematria of Biblical times, mankind has delighted to marry the two elements by forms of letter arithmetic.
In Quest Of A Pangram (Part 1), Lee Sallows
In Quest Of A Pangram (Part 1), Lee Sallows
Word Ways
In the August 1991 Word Ways, Douglas Greenwood mentions Kee Dewdney's widely-referenced Scientific American account of my search for a self-descriptive pangram (1). In fact, Dewdney's column was based on a long and rather technical article of mine that appeared subsequently in Abacus (2). The following is a shortened adaptation of the first part of the original.
Collectible Words, Alfred Lubran
Book Chapter: The Return Of The Repressed: Saussure And Swift On Language And History, Tony Crowley
Book Chapter: The Return Of The Repressed: Saussure And Swift On Language And History, Tony Crowley
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
Departures in linguistics are nothing new of course. Ideas come and go, "facts" appear and disappear along with the theories which first brought them to light, trends shift and alter. The language used to describe the history of the field, a field which once constituted a new departure in its own right, is replete with the language of innovation: "breakthrough," "advance," "progress," and even "revolution" are familiar enough epithets. In the face of all this novelty then the question must be, how to do something new? The answer which is proposed here might appear somewhat odd for the intention is …
Normal And Pathological Breakdown In Arabic., Sabah Safi-Stagni
Normal And Pathological Breakdown In Arabic., Sabah Safi-Stagni
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The grammatical structure of Arabic allows for significant cross-linguistic comparisons in the study of Slips-of-the-tongue as well as aphasia. The dissertation presents a case study of the aphasic deficit in the speech of a speaker of Arabic, in particular, the Hijazi dialect spoken in the Western Province of Saudi Arabia, with a subsequent comparison with regular slips-of-the-tongue in the same dialect collected and analyzed by the same author. Both the slips-of-the-tongue data and the aphasia data have been collected in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by the present investigator. It was observed that in such a highly inflected language, …
Argument Structure Preference And Phrase Structure Effects During Sentence Processing, Harold Nicholas Nagel
Argument Structure Preference And Phrase Structure Effects During Sentence Processing, Harold Nicholas Nagel
Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999
This project investigates how subjects' preferences for a specific argument structure of a verb affect the on-line processing of sentences. Three experiments are conducted. The first experiment uses a forced choice task to gather preference ratings for several verbs. The second and third experiments use these preference ratings to examine on-line performance for a subset of the subjects participating in Experiment I. We find that a subject's preference for a specific argument structure influences the first pass analysis of sentence but that this effect may be overridden by a structural effect in sentences containing syntactic ambiguities. These results are discussed …