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Cursive Russian-English Homoglyphs And Homographs, Tristan Miller

Word Ways

A look at Russian-English homoglyphs and homographs from the cursive alphabet.

Installation Of "A Mark Was Made" Story Wall Completed As Part Of Ped Mall Project

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A reprint of an internet articles about an installation honoring 17 Iowa City residents who have had an impact on the city including Dave Morice, a prolific Word Ways contributor.

Eating By Numbers, Susan Thorpe

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Find the numerical total of a word or phrase and add the digits of the resulting sum together until you reach a single digit result.

Anagram Couplets, . Anil

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These rhymes are polyanagrams of their titles, or else couplets within a single anagram of the title.

Mary Had Four Little Lambs, . Anil

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Four parodies of the poem Mary Had a Little Lamb.

Jabbowocky Or: Lipolating Nonsense, Tikki Saram

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The author rewrites Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky" by removing all instances of the letters "l" and "r".

Adding Two Like Letters, Susan Thorpe

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A given word is split into two parts which may, or may not, have the same number of letters. A common letter (A to Z) is positioned at the front of each of the two groups of letters to form two words which, ideally, make a 2-word phrase.

Miami Sequences, Susan Thorpe

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An exercise in removing a specific pattern of letters from a word to form a new word.

More Country Transpositions, Jeff Grant

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A continuation of last issue's article with even more transposals for the names of countries of the world.

Add A Vowel, Steve Kahan

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Add a vowel and rearrange each set of letters to form a word.

Ping Pong, Ding Dong & Sing Song, David Shaw

Word Ways

An essay on word pairs with various forms of reduplication.

Punk Whiz 23, . Anil

Word Ways

A quiz with clues given for a resulting pun.

Removing Separated, Alphabetically-Adjacent, Letters, Susan Thorpe

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The 2 alphabetically-adjacent letters to be removed from the word must:

be in alphabetical order in the word

be separated by one or more letters

have no duplicates in the word

Reversed Vowel Countries, Susan Thorpe

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in BRAZIL and ITALY the same 2 vowels (A and I) occur in reverse order. Brazil and Italy could be described as reversed vowel countries.

Word Ways V.52 No.4 Complete Issue

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The complete issue in one file.

Linguistics Colloquium | Japanese University System And Challenges Of Efl In Japan, Nov. 22, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Linguistics Colloquium | Quantitative Methods In Linguistics, Nov. 1, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors wishing to submit articles for future issues.

It's "Know" Contest: A Quinquagenary Tribute To The New York Magazine Competition, Don Hauptman

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A tribute to the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the New York Magazine Competition.

Transposals Between U.S. Place Names, Eric Tentarelli

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In Word Ways in November 1973, Dmitri Borgmann searched for names of U.S. Cities, towns, or villages that were transposals of each other. The longest well-mixed pair he found consisted of 9-letter names: MASTERSON, Texas, and SEARSMONT, Maine. It is worthwhile to revisit this topic in hopes of finding longer examples.

The Martin Game, Jeremiah Farrell, Karen Farrell

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The MARTIN diagram uses each letter of the name to form nine chemical symbols.The Game. Two players alternately select nodes trying to obtain three nodes with a common letter or three nodes of the same color obtaining all the letters of MARTIN.

The Inside And Outside Of Four Letter Words, Susan Thorpe

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Letters are given their alphabetical values A=1 to Z=26. In each of the four categories, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, the first and last letters of a 4-letter word work together to give the same result as the second and third letters working together.

Linguistics Students Faculty Present Research On Second Language Acquisition, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Challenges Of Translating Diplomatic Discourse, Terminology And Proverbs From English To Albanian Language, Redi Papa

UBT International Conference

This paper aims to closely elaborate the comprehensive linguistic and stylistic features, aspects of equivalency regarding proverbs diplomatic terminology in order to carry out a comparison with Albanian equivalents. The language of diplomacy and terminology has been broadly extended particularly during the last three decades. The sphere of this style is closely related to activities concerned with meetings, conferences, congresses. Indeed it is worth emphasizing that the whole range of these activities isn’t devoid of proverbs and terminology which renders specific peculiarities. Contrary to other fields the purpose of diplomatic texts, utterances and proverbs it’s not that of merely conveying …

Notable Alumni | James Stratman Lives Where Law And Language Entwine, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Tao Recognized For Work In Interactional Linguistics, Chinese Language Learning, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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60+ Program Students Get College Experience, Intellectual Challenge, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Students Put Intercultural Communication Skills To Work For Athens Makerspace, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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A Phonetic Distance Approach To Intelligibility Between Mam Regional Dialects, Megan Simon

Master's Theses

Mam, an indigenous Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala, has considerable internal diversity among its regional dialects. The purpose of this thesis is to estimate their varying degrees of intelligibility and to present groups of dialects whose speakers can be reasonably expected to understand one another. The analysis consists of two parts, the computation of a phonetic distance network and a series of sociocultural interviews. Phonetic distance was measured by Levenshtein distance between cognates in word lists and analyzed with a Neighbor-Net network. Interviews with Mam speakers focused on subjective judgments of intelligibility, contact, and social attitudes. Four main dialect …

Arabic Language Student Association Prepares Dinner For Athens Community, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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