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Ad Memoriam Demetrii, Harry B. Partridge
Ad Memoriam Demetrii, Harry B. Partridge
Word Ways
The Wombat was, I could tell, in a somber mood when he recieved me in his rural retreat in Fauquier County, Virginia. His dark clothing seemed to reflext his frame of mind; and on the Florentine credenza stood, not the colorful array of comestibles which I was wont to see there, but a large bedewed pitcher of nearly black liquid, a silver plate of black chocolate confections, and a platter, likewise argent, of delicate sandwiches of some black bread.
All End-Letters Different In A Poem, Willard R. Espy
All End-Letters Different In A Poem, Willard R. Espy
Word Ways
In the July 22, 1972 New Yorker magazine there appeared the following sonnet by George Starbuck...
Dudeney's Lost Word-Puzzle, A. Ross Eckler
Dudeney's Lost Word-Puzzle, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Most readers of Word Ways are aware that Henry Ernest Dudeney, England's most distinguished puzzleist, was interested in words as well as numbers.
A Puzzling Past, Faith W. Eckler
A Puzzling Past, Faith W. Eckler
Word Ways
The year is 1896. You live on a small farm in upstate New York. The cows have been milked, the pigs slopped, supper eaten and the dishes washed, and you and your wife sit down by the light of a kerosene lamp and several candles to read the latest issue of the weekly newsmagazine, The American Agriculturalist.
Dr. Awkward And Olson In Oslo, Lawrence Levine
Dr. Awkward And Olson In Oslo, Lawrence Levine
Word Ways
The long voyage between my first tentative effort at constructing a short palindrome of some forty letters, and the eventual completion of a palindromic novel numbering 31,594 words (or approximately 104,000 letters) some twenty years later, was an unrelenting lesson in many disciplines. There were lessons in trial and error, in logic, in vocabulary, in syntactics, and a wide-ranging lexical development that I never thought possible. Although I had always considered myself a more than ordinary lover of my native language, I had never before realized how metamorphic and submissive was this extraordinary English tongue, until the day I began …
Mary Had A Univocalic Lamb, Paul Hellweg
Mary Had A Univocalic Lamb, Paul Hellweg
Word Ways
According to Tony Augarde's Oxford Guide to Word Games, univocalics are writings that make use of only one vowel. This is apparently an old form of word play, as Augarde gives several examples from the nineteenth century, including one that dates back to 1824.
Monogrammonyms, Jay Ames
Monogrammonyms, Jay Ames
Word Ways
Some time ago I read an article on one-letter surnames as listed by the United States Internal Revenue Service, and a similar one by the Immigration Department.
Wordplay In Radio Contests, Raymond D. Love
Wordplay In Radio Contests, Raymond D. Love
Word Ways
An automobile dealer in Tuscon, Arizona ran a radio commercial in October 1985 which featured a word game. The advertisement was on twelve different stations, and saturated the airways for two weeks with six to eight spots a day. It was the talk of the town.
Undergrounders, Vernon Maclaren
Undergrounders, Vernon Maclaren
Word Ways
Here is my collection of Undergrounders to add to the ones presented by Dmitri Borgmann in the February 1986 Word Ways
Oklahoma-Missouri Sign Language, Eugene J. Ulrich
Oklahoma-Missouri Sign Language, Eugene J. Ulrich
Word Ways
All of us at one time or another have seen bizarre spelling or language used in signs or notices put up by individuals, organizations or businesses. I would like to share with you some that I've met with in certain fringe-of-the-Ozarks areas of Oklahoma and Missouri.
The Apple-Sauce Chronicles, Louis Phillips
The Apple-Sauce Chronicles, Louis Phillips
Word Ways
Word Ways resumes this anthology of light-hearted wordplay (see the May 1984 and November 1984 issues) with the perennial favorite, What's the Question (orginated by Steve Allen in 1958).
Whose What?, Richard Lederer
Whose What?, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
In the English Language, there are a great many common expressions that are built on the formula whose what, that is, a possessive noun plus a noun. To discover just how many of these little phrases have become established, try filling in the blanks below. Answers appear at the end of this issue.
Words From State Name Abbreviations, Bruce Pyne
Words From State Name Abbreviations, Bruce Pyne
Word Ways
Almost all lists of words appearing in Word Ways use single letters as units to construct words. Suppose instead that we choose two-letter combinations, or bigrams, as units.
D'Ou Etes-Vous Revisited, The Word Wurcher
D'Ou Etes-Vous Revisited, The Word Wurcher
Word Ways
D'Ou Etes-Vous deals with a phenomenon which has always been of interest to me. Not only in French, but in Russian as well, the naming of people from their places of origin is very complicated.
Foreign Ideas, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Foreign Ideas, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
With thousands of foreign terms in use in our language, it might be asked, very slightly misquoting Rudyard Kipling, "What does he know of English who only English knows?" We are almost as likely to encounter the Latin respice finem or the French of LaFontaine reminding us in all things to consider the final outcome as the English consider the bottom line.
Back Cover
Word Ways
Back cover, including instructions to authors wishing to contribute to the publication.
Kickshaws, David Morice
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
Double Duty Words, Richard Lederer
Double Duty Words, Richard Lederer
Word Ways
The vocabulary of English contains anywhere from three-quarters of a million to one million words - by far the largest in the history of humankind. Despite this impressive accomplishment, many words in English have to do double duty and convey more than one meaning. As a result, one word can function as the opposite of two very different words.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
Front Cover And Publication Information
Front Cover And Publication Information
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue, including a table of contents.
Words With Unusual Shapes, Alan Frank
Words With Unusual Shapes, Alan Frank
Word Ways
Previous articles in Word Ways have discussed such matters as the words with the most hyphens, words with internal capital letters, and various symbols which appear as entries in Webster's Second. These can all be characterized as word shapes. This article will present some of the ways in which shapes can be unusual, including examples and a quiz.
Rivers Of Type, Fritzi Striebel
Rivers Of Type, Fritzi Striebel
Word Ways
What we have called rivers of type might be defined as those white portions between the printed words on a page of type which sometime form significant patterns. Discovering this phenomenon for the first time, I wondered why it had taken me so long, half my life in fact. I made a hobby of collecting rare examples, trying to find the longest river, the tallest vertical, the longest angle. They have a fugitive quality which adds zest to the search.
The Portmanteau Not Taken, Edward R. Wolpow
The Portmanteau Not Taken, Edward R. Wolpow
Word Ways
Lewis Carroll discussed portmanteau words in his exposition on the poem Jabberwocky. The two words MISERABLE and FLIMSY produced a hybrid MIMSY, incorporating some of the letters and some of the meanings of both. But why not FLISERABLE? The portmanteau word, also known as the blend, has many examples in English.
Food Subtractives: Losing -Ed And Ly, Michael Smith
Food Subtractives: Losing -Ed And Ly, Michael Smith
Word Ways
A lot of strange things have been happening to our food in the past thirty or forty years, many of which I would prefer not to think about - maybe even know about. As our technology has developed, the various food industries have attempted in numerous ways to "improve" our food; many of their attempts have involved adding chemicals to "improve" taste, texture, color, aroma, shelf life, profits, etc. Of course, not everyone has been in favor of such improvements. Among some groups there has been a great hue and cry over the use of food additives; but this minor …
The Language Of Space, A. Ross Eckler
The Language Of Space, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
The Language of Space is an artificial language developed by the late W. John Weilgart, a linguist and psychotherapist. Unlike other artificial languages such as Esperanto and Volapuk, its words are constructed out of an alphabet of 31 basic concepts, each depicted by a symbol (a plus, a circle, a triangle, a wavy line, etc.) and an alphabetic letter.
On Constructing Constrained Poetry, Howard W. Bergerson
On Constructing Constrained Poetry, Howard W. Bergerson
Word Ways
The late mathematician Eric Temple Bell wrote science fiction stories for pulp magazines back in the 1920s and 1930s under the pen name John Taine, an activity which was said to be an embarrassment to his colleagues. I read many science fiction stories back in that time, including some by John Taine about whom I then knew nothing.
Metalinguistic Thoughts At Random, A. Ross Eckler
Metalinguistic Thoughts At Random, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Below, dear reader, you will encounter perhaps the longest English-language literary isogram ever constructed: every word therein is unique. While reading, please watch carefully for inadvertent duplications (hopefully, they appear impossible to find).
Poetic Justice, Walter Shedlofsky
Poetic Justice, Walter Shedlofsky
Word Ways
Police Lieutenant Arthur Jamison was not pleased with Sergeant Johnson. Despite seventeen years on the force, his black and gray hair needed a haircut, while a paunch was evident behind the unpressed uniform.