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Russian Palindromes, Haim Kilov
Russian Palindromes, Haim Kilov
Word Ways
The following article by V. Khromov, entitled Palindromes: Sound Play, or a Regular Case of Sound Distribution, originally appeared in the Nauka i Zhizn of 1970 (No. 9) Various amplifications of the material in the article for the benefit of the American reader appear in brackets.
No-Holds-Barred Scrabble, Alan Frank
No-Holds-Barred Scrabble, Alan Frank
Word Ways
Word Ways has published numerous high-scoring single-move Scrabble games during the past decade; readers should enjoy this spoof of the genre.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
There Once Was A Digital Limerick, John Henrick
There Once Was A Digital Limerick, John Henrick
Word Ways
The concept of digital verse was defined and the possibility demonstrated a year ago in the February 1983 Word Ways. The utilization of digits and arithmetic operators to encrypt a limerick was conceived by Leigh Mercer and displayed most ingeniously in an example published by Maxey Brooke in Word Ways in the February 1980 issue. The example of digital verse consisted of a single stanza which was, in fact, a palindrome, but not, alas, a limerick. And, although Leigh Mercer's limerick was a marvel of conciseness in its adroit use of integers and mathematical symbols, it did not exemplify …
Animal Crackers, A. Ross Eckler
Animal Crackers, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Are you tired of anagram puzzles which give you the clue "colorless poet" for DRAB BARD, or "kingly scowl" for REGAL GLARE? If so, the following skull-crackers should be more to your taste -- no anagrammed pairs have less than seven letters each, and one even reaches the plateau of fifteen. The puzzles are arranged in groups with the shortest phrases first. Answers are given in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue, but in addition Hints are given overleaf; the letters entering into each anagram are arranged in alphabetical order. (But do try to solve them first …
Ibmphasis On Jargon, Leonard R.N. Ashley
Ibmphasis On Jargon, Leonard R.N. Ashley
Word Ways
Language-watchers have long since been alerted to the new bits (and bytes) of the computer age. In Playboy magazine for July 1983, John Sack tells of children at computer camps sending home a thousand kisses like this.
Czech These Homographs - Please!, Jay Ames
Czech These Homographs - Please!, Jay Ames
Word Ways
Running a rubious orb over the corpus of strange words in my Czech-French Dictionary compiled by Vladko Buben, I was startled to see a considerable number of "English" words and thought they might be worth sharing with other word-collectors. I have listed only those words which do not seem to be direct borrowings, and have indicated with an asterisk words that are normally capitalized in English. Enjoy 'em!
Kickshaws, Faith Eckler
More N-Tile Scrabble Records, Kyle Corbin
More N-Tile Scrabble Records, Kyle Corbin
Word Ways
Word Ways readers have been investigating in SCRABBLE crossword game the highest possible combined scores for the first few turns. The records for one through six turns were published in the November 1982 Word Ways. Now I have completed work on the seven- through ten-turn records. Afterwards, I give the details of the seven- through ten-turn scores. In the diagrams, I use asterisks to indicate blank tiles. All records follow the current SCRABBLE crossword game rules, summarized in the May 1981 Word Ways.
Poetical Ponders, Thomas J. Palumbo
Poetical Ponders, Thomas J. Palumbo
Word Ways
The fill-in poem is a type of literary amusement popular in the late eighteenth century. Note that the fourth line in each quatrain does not rhyme with the second line, but if you substitute the appropriate word for each parenthesized word or phrase, it will rhyme and scan. Place the answers under each other, and you will have created an acrostic whose first and last letters reading downward generate the name of a famous soccer player.
Colloquy
Word Ways
Webster's Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit additions, corrections, and comments about earlier articles appearing in Word Ways. Comments received up to a month prior to publication of an issue will appear in it.
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 17 Number 1
Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 17 Number 1
Word Ways
Front cover and publication information for this issue, including a table of contents.
Studies In The Relationship Between Distinctive Features And Acoustic Cues (Phonetics, Phonology)., Thomas F. Walsh
Studies In The Relationship Between Distinctive Features And Acoustic Cues (Phonetics, Phonology)., Thomas F. Walsh
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The relationship between the Distinctive Feature (DF) (+OR-)Voice and its acoustic manifestation has generated a great deal of discussion in recent years. Although it is well known that the phonological voicing contrast is often not manifested in terms of actual glottal pulsation, the exact acoustic manifestation has been debated. The collection of papers presented herein considers perceptual evidence for the acoustic manifestation of (+OR-)Voice in English stops in utterance-final position, produced without release and with no glottal pulsation during closure. It is concluded that in such cases, the primary acoustic cue to (+OR-)Voice is the preceding vocalic transition. That is …
A Linguist Looks At Tolkien's Elvish, Thomas S. Donahue
A Linguist Looks At Tolkien's Elvish, Thomas S. Donahue
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
A somewhat playful look at Tolkien’s invented languages, deducing some of the rules for evolution from Proto-Eldarian to Quenya then Sindarin and offering possible derivations for a number of hobbit words and names. Donahue’s conclusion is that Tolkien’s inventive sense was “puckish” and sprang from “a penchant for drollery.” Followed by Comments by Paul Nolan Hyde rebutting a number of Donahue’s points, a Reply by Donahue, and a Rejoinder by Hyde.
Front Cover And Publication Information
Front Cover And Publication Information
Word Ways
Publication information including table of contents.
Logology By Computer, Alan Frank
Logology By Computer, Alan Frank
Word Ways
Computers have the potential for playing many roles in the field of recreational linguistics. Six general categories are:
a) making a list of all words with specified orthographic characteristics,
b) managing logological data bases,
c) acting as a practice opponent in world games,
d) solving formal word puzzles such as crosswords, double-crostics, and the types dealt with by the National Puzzlers' League and Games magazine,
e) composing such puzzles,
f) typesetting material for magazines of recreational linguistics.
The Great Oxymoron Contest, Bo Mitchell
The Great Oxymoron Contest, Bo Mitchell
Word Ways
An oxymoron is defined by Willard Espy in the Garden of Eloquence (Harper and Row, 1983) as "a figure in which an epithet of contrary meaning is added to a word". He gives several examples, including "their love was bittersweet, "wise folly, and "a deafening silence".
Dial M For Mind-Tickler, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Dial M For Mind-Tickler, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
In these pages over the years, I have contributed to you entertainment with a series of articles on various aspects of British and American English, most often couching my material in quiz format. The answers to these quizzes have appeared at the back of the issue in which the quizzes were printed.
A Word Square Update, Maxey Brooke
A Word Square Update, Maxey Brooke
Word Ways
In 1974, I sent the editor a home-made Christmas card summarizing most of what was known about word squares to that time. To my surprise, he published it as "A Survey Of Small Squares" in the May 1975 Word Ways, along with several additions for which he gave me credit.
Typewriter Recreations, Eugene Ulrich
Typewriter Recreations, Eugene Ulrich
Word Ways
The standard arrangement of the letters on a typewriter and the way the hands and fingers are used to type offer possibilities for a variety of linguistic investigations. We assume the typist uses the standard finger pattern given below.
Overlapping Word Squares, Edward R. Wolpow
Overlapping Word Squares, Edward R. Wolpow
Word Ways
The single word square uses the same words across as down, and several articles about these have appeared in Word Ways, usually dealing with the construction of the largest possible square made of respectable English words. This article will examine single word squares that can be made to overlap. The smallest possible word square that can be made to partially overlap with another one is of size 2x2. There are, in fact, three distinct ways for two such squares to overlap, and examples for each are shown.
Instructions To Authors
Word Ways
Back cover, including instructions to authors who wish to contribute to Word Ways.
3330 Pangrams, A. Ross Eckler
3330 Pangrams, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
A pangram is a set of words in which each letter of the alphabet appears exactly once. Various people, including such distinguished mathematicians as the English logician Augustus De Morgan and the American information theorist Claude Shannon, have searched for pangrams that can be arranged in a meaningful sentence, but all efforts have required extensive explanations of the message the sentence is attempting to convey. In view of these difficulties, it seems prudent to abandon this additional requirement, regarding a pangram as a list of words and nothing more.
Colloquy
Word Ways
Webster's Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit additions, corrections, and comments about earlier articles appearing in Word Ways. Comments received up to a month prior to publication of an issue will appear in it.
Kickshaws, Martin Gardner
On Writing Readable Graffiti, John Henrick
On Writing Readable Graffiti, John Henrick
Word Ways
You just wrote it. It's your most brilliant achievement yet. But is it readable? All graffitists worthy of the name must have asked themselves this question at some time. Indeed, it is a question that every conscientious author asks repeatedly. Unlike other writers, however, graffitists do not get any of the standard forms of feedback.
Closed Scrabble Boards, Kyle Corbin
Closed Scrabble Boards, Kyle Corbin
Word Ways
Most SCRABBLE crossword games end only after all 100 tiles have been drawn and one player has "played out" (used all the tiles in the rack). However, the rules say that the game may also end when all possible plays have been made -- when the players have created a "closed board." Games rarely end in this manner, and when they do, the players have usually used nearly all the tiles. Just how few tiles are theoretically necessary, then, to close the board?
A Rhapsody Of Words, Darryl Francis
A Rhapsody Of Words, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Word Ways is a journal devoted to language, names, speech, spelling, punctuation, dictionaries, etymology, linguistics -- but above all, words. A rhapsody of words, as Shakespeare said in Hamlet.
First Words, Jeremiah Farrell
First Words, Jeremiah Farrell
Word Ways
If TRICK PLAY are dirty words, ARM HOLD are strong words, FINGER SHADOWS are fore words, and STREET TALK are cross words, then what words are these?