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The Mathematics Of Words, A. Ross Eckler Nov 1983

The Mathematics Of Words, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

From the standpoint of an algebraist, words are nothing but ordered sequences of letters, each letter being a member of an allowable alphabet of such letters. Any sequence of letters is permitted, and he is often interested in deriving theorems about the existence or non-existence of certain letter-patterns.

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Puzzle Busters, J. B. Griswold Nov 1983

Puzzle Busters, J. B. Griswold

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The National Puzzlers' League recently celebrated its centennial with a three-day convention held in New Brunswick, N.J. in July 1983. The following account, reprinted from the March 1937 American Magazine, entertainingly describes an NPL regional meeting a half-century ago. Rufus T. Strohm, editor of the Enigma (the official publication of the League), wrote in April 1937 "The article in the March American Magazine about the league and the Krewe is a swell job, and the author Jerome Beatty (pseudonymically J.B. Griswold) has the thanks of all of us for giving so accurate a picture of us and our activities. It …

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (1983): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Sep 1983

Vol. 7 No. 1 (1983): Pacific Studies Front Matter, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (1983): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Sep 1983

Vol. 7 No. 1 (1983): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$40.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

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Fish Names Of Wallis Island (Uvea), Karl H. Rensch Sep 1983

Fish Names Of Wallis Island (Uvea), Karl H. Rensch

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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New Russian Books On The Pacific, 1980-1981, Patricia Polansky Sep 1983

New Russian Books On The Pacific, 1980-1981, Patricia Polansky

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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Max E. Stanton's Review Of Stephen A. Wurm And Shiro Hattori's Language Atlas Of The Pacific Area, Part I: New Guinea Area, Oceania, Australia, Max E. Stanton Sep 1983

Max E. Stanton's Review Of Stephen A. Wurm And Shiro Hattori's Language Atlas Of The Pacific Area, Part I: New Guinea Area, Oceania, Australia, Max E. Stanton

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Sep 1983

Books Received And Book Notices, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Studies

Book Listing for the Vol 6, No 1 Fall Edition of the Pacific Studies Journal

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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 16 Number 3 Aug 1983

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 16 Number 3

Word Ways

Publication information including table of contents.

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Greek-Letter Pangrammatic Poems, Howard W. Bergerson Aug 1983

Greek-Letter Pangrammatic Poems, Howard W. Bergerson

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Meaningful English pangrams -- the 26 letters of the alphabet rearranged into a sentence -- are almost impossible to construct. Howard Bergerson has come up with an idea which has apparently never been tried before: use the one hundred letters contained in the Greek letter-names alpha, beta, ..., omega instead. The following poems are the result, dealing with a wide variety of topics; note that several introduce a Greek theme. In one poem, Socrates' wife Xanthippe objects to the payment of a pig that Socrates promised to a friend before drinking the hemlock. In another, Howard Bergerson echoes the haunting …

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The Downfall Of Maurice Faversham, Walter Shedlofsky Aug 1983

The Downfall Of Maurice Faversham, Walter Shedlofsky

Word Ways

Coroner Michael Hobbs: Court is now in session. This inquest has been convened to inquire into the death of Sir Maurice Faversham, who was found dead last Saturday, May 21, in the hall of his ancestral home in the town of Audley End. We shall now hear from those persons who have an interest in this matter.

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Roughhewn Ends, Harry B. Partridge Aug 1983

Roughhewn Ends, Harry B. Partridge

Word Ways

My learned friend, Dr. H. K. Wombat, seldom stirs abroad from his home overlooking the Southern California coast from the Palos Verdes peninsula to Malibu. This is not for fear of being stared at -- for the Los Angeles Basin offers far more bizzare denizens than an elderly marsupial dressed in cap and cape -- but because the savant is constantly occupied in his own projects and thoughts, some of which I have been privileged to communicate to you. Still, at times the doughty diprotodont does indeed sally forth, as, for instance, to a bookstore at Rosewood and Western, which …

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Naming More Animals, Rufus T. Strohm Aug 1983

Naming More Animals, Rufus T. Strohm

Word Ways

The following logological fable is one of a series written by Rufus T. Strohm, editor of the National Puzzlers' League. It appeared in the January 1936 Enigma.

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Three Acro-Fables, Don Emmerson Aug 1983

Three Acro-Fables, Don Emmerson

Word Ways

Once upon a long time ago, on the tiny Mediterranean island of Mynorca, an old peasant turned to his son and said, "Acronyms Can Relax Our Nerves -- Yes, My Son?" To which the son replied, "By Any Logologist's Or Namester's Esimate, Yes!"

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Everybody Comes From Somewhere, Maxey Brooke Aug 1983

Everybody Comes From Somewhere, Maxey Brooke

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A citizen of Houston is known as a Houstonian. One who lives in Dallas is a Dallasite. If you are from Los Angeles, you are an Angelino. And if you happen to be an inhabitant of New York, you are a New Yorker.

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Why Couldn't They Say "I Love You"?, Cynthia Knight Aug 1983

Why Couldn't They Say "I Love You"?, Cynthia Knight

Word Ways

Cast of Characters: ADELAIDE McCABE, a feeble hag, and TONY RUSSO, worn-out N.Y. tout

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Dr. Robinson's Dictionary, Jeremiah Farrell Aug 1983

Dr. Robinson's Dictionary, Jeremiah Farrell

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It is said that you can tell a man by the books he reads. More so, then, by the books he writes. In the case of William J. Robinson (1869-1936), Ph.G., M.D., consider these works.

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Colloquy Aug 1983

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.

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Espyramids And Doublets, Willard R. Espy Aug 1983

Espyramids And Doublets, Willard R. Espy

Word Ways

The following puzzles are excerpted from a book entitled Word Puzzles to be published by Dembner Enterprises in September 1983. In an "ESPYramid Up" one enlarges a one-letter word letter by letter, each addition making a new word, rearranging the letters as need dictates (a-at-tea-mate-steam-master...). The "ESPYramid Down" reverses this process, subtracting letters one at a time and rearranging the remainder. In "Doublets", inspired by the Lewis Carroll word game, a word is gradually changed into another of opposite meaning by replacing one letter at a time, the rest remaining undisturbed and each move resulting in a new word (suite-spite-spine-swine-swing-swung-stung...).

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A New Charade Crossword, Ernst Theimer Aug 1983

A New Charade Crossword, Ernst Theimer

Word Ways

In the August 1970 and August 1971 Word Ways, Ernst Theimer introduced the charade crossword to readers. The first two paragraphs below, explaining the nature of this puzzle, are repeated from the 1971 article.

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Three Little Sacks, Word Wurcher Aug 1983

Three Little Sacks, Word Wurcher

Word Ways

In former times people depended much more than nowadays on a well-stocked memory, or at least one differently stocked with little reference to printed materials. Few could read, fewer still had many books, and pens and paper were expensive. So it was, for instance, that names of rulers were associated with tags and epithets which immediately summoned up qualities or events which located them in the history of their countries. In the United States we have a few ekenames like The Father of His Country, Honest Abe and The Great Communicator, but of these only the first and second seem …

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Kickshaws, Eugene J. Ulrich Aug 1983

Kickshaws, Eugene J. Ulrich

Word Ways

A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

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A Lexicographer's Search, Richard M. Lederer Jr. Aug 1983

A Lexicographer's Search, Richard M. Lederer Jr.

Word Ways

When I was researching my about-to-be-published A Glossary of Colonial American Words (Lederer's Lexicon) I encountered only a handful for which I could not find definitions in the many sources available. Perhaps some of Word Ways readers can come up with definitions. Here are the stumpers.

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A Little Bow Peep, Leonard R. N. Ashley Aug 1983

A Little Bow Peep, Leonard R. N. Ashley

Word Ways

Even non-toxophilites (look it up!) out there must realize that archery, now a sport for a few, was a business and a necessary skill for many in days gone by when the yeomen who were bowmen were the military strength of a nation. You can see how many of our ancestors were connected with archery in peace and war when you reflect on the surnames that have come down to us such as Arrowsmith, Fletcher, Bowman, Archer, Stringer and even Abbott (“at the butts”). Here is a peep or little look at the once-big business of archery, once so entrenched …

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Baseballese, Edward R. Wolpow Aug 1983

Baseballese, Edward R. Wolpow

Word Ways

MOUND n.5. Baseball. The slightly elevated ground on which the pitcher stands when pitching. Cant.

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Answers And Solutions Aug 1983

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions for the puzzles in this issue.

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Even More One-Sided Scrabble, Kyle Corbin Aug 1983

Even More One-Sided Scrabble, Kyle Corbin

Word Ways

The February 1982 Word Ways presented a SCRABBLE® Brand Crossword Game (hereafter referred to simply as a Scrabble game) by Prince Joli Kansil in which the winner scored more than 1900 points to this spread by a slight modification of the setup in "The Highest-Scoring Scrabble Game" in the May 1982 issue.

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Instructions To Authors Aug 1983

Instructions To Authors

Word Ways

Instructions to authors who wish to contribute to Word Ways.

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Silvery Discovery? Glittery Trumpery, A. Ross Eckler Aug 1983

Silvery Discovery? Glittery Trumpery, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

In the March 1983 issue of Omni magazine, the International Paper Company presented a two-page advertisement containing various spelling tips by novelist John Irving. To help the bad speller gain confidence, he suggested the following rule:

What about -ary or -ery? Just remember that there are only six common words in English that end in -ery. Memorize them, and feel fairly secure that all the rest end in -ary: cemetery, millinery, distillery, monastery, confectionery, stationery (as in paper).

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An Impractical Cipher, David Shulman Aug 1983

An Impractical Cipher, David Shulman

Word Ways

One short story that will never win an O. Henry prize as the best short story of the year appeared in Word Ways as "Ivan's Letter" in the February and May 1982 issues. It first appeared in The Enigma of June 1930, at which time a paltry prize of ten dollars was offered to anyone who could solve the cipher in the story. The prize was never claimed, and in my opinion it was not worth one's time or trouble to solve such a cipher. In fact, the story should have never been reprinted. But, since Word Ways has resurrected …

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