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Kickshaws, David L. Silverman Aug 1975

Kickshaws, David L. Silverman

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Readers are invited to send kickshaws to the Associate Editor. Correspondents who wish a quick acknowledgement should enclose a self-addressed post card.

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Front Cover, Publication Information Aug 1975

Front Cover, Publication Information

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Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents

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Hard-To-Find Words In Web 3 (A-D), Ralph G. Beaman Aug 1975

Hard-To-Find Words In Web 3 (A-D), Ralph G. Beaman

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The main purpose of a dictionary is to give information about words. One looks with some "word" in mind and either finds it exists by noting a boldface alphabetical entry for it; or, not finding it, concludes it does not exist. The latter conclusion is dangerous since the chosen dictionary may have elected to regard the word as too rare or obscene, it may have been missed, or the word sought is too new. There seems little excuse, however, for not listing words that in fact are given in boldface in the work. As this list proves, there are probably …

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Automynorcagrams, Howard W. Bergerson Aug 1975

Automynorcagrams, Howard W. Bergerson

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I have long ruminated over the problem of finding a logological form of composition as challenging and appealing as the palindrome, but in which (unlike the palindrome) any word could be used. The ideas that occurred to me all seemed deficient in one way or another. The logological interest of vocabularyclepts (anagramming the words of one poem into another) is dependent upon the existence of the parent poemfrom which they are made, and is nonexistent without them. Word-unit palindromes are an attractive possibility, but the composer must be resigned to the fact that "and the" implies "the and", to give …

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An All-Consonant Crossword, Darryl Francis Aug 1975

An All-Consonant Crossword, Darryl Francis

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In August 1973 we offered a crossword puzzle consisting solely of three-letter all-vowel (AEIOUY) words. Seeing this puzzle, Palmer Peterson of Lennox, South Dakota tried his hand at constructing an all-consonant puzzle using the same crossword pattern. We were most intrigued by his effort, but discovered that many of his words had been taken from references eighty years or more old. We decided to construct an all-consonant crossword using contemporary dictionaries, and evenly succeeded with the offering below, based solely on Webster's Second, Webster's Third, and The Oxford English Dictionary.

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A 700-Word Palindrome, D. L. Polonsky Aug 1975

A 700-Word Palindrome, D. L. Polonsky

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A palindrome of 700 words.

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Front Cover, Publication Information May 1975

Front Cover, Publication Information

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Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents

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Biliteral Crossword, E. S. Sande May 1975

Biliteral Crossword, E. S. Sande

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A crossword puzzle.

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Web 2: Imperfect But Lovable, Tom Pulliam May 1975

Web 2: Imperfect But Lovable, Tom Pulliam

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Along with many other readers of Word Ways, I am a stanch admirer of Merriam-Webster's Second Edition. Unlike the austere and hospital-sterile Third Edition (the same genus, but a different species), it offers almost endless scope for the browser or the collector of curiousa. The things that most charm me can be broadly classified in two categories: inconsistencies or outright errors, and interesting definitions.

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Piddletrenthide, Darryl Francis May 1975

Piddletrenthide, Darryl Francis

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The London Times devotes a regular column to the reassignments of Church of England clerics. Buried among the announcements of August 21, 1974 was the following.

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Colloquy May 1975

Colloquy

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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 that issue.

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A Survey Of Letter-Frequencies, Leslie E. Card, A. Ross Eckler May 1975

A Survey Of Letter-Frequencies, Leslie E. Card, A. Ross Eckler

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If one asks the man in the street (or even the average reader of Word Ways) for a listing of letters by frequency of occurrence, he is likely to come up with the linotyper's nonsense-phrase ETAOIN SHRDLU. More serious students of letter-frequencies, such as solvers of monoalphabetic substitution ciphers, are likely to point out in addition that the frequencies of certain letters are so nearly alike (for example, A and O, or N and R) that the ordering depends upon the sample of letters tabulated. Although most people will readily understand that the listing is based on a sample of …

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Initial Bigrams, Philip M. Cohen May 1975

Initial Bigrams, Philip M. Cohen

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To my mind, an ideal hardcore logology project should satisfy two conditions: (1) it should be hard enough to force the investigator out of the cozy Webster's Second Unabridged (NI2) and Third Unabridged (NI3) nook, and (2) it should promise complete success -- every last hole filled -- with persistence. AN excellent example is the problem of finding words beginning with each of the 676 possible two-letter combinations, or bigrams. This problem is covered in the section "Zero Redundancy" (ZR) in Dmitri Borgmann's Beyond Language (Scribner's, 1967). Unfortunately, while Dmitri claimed words for 629 of the combinations, he listed only …

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I Cue The Alphabet, Joseph T. Shipley May 1975

I Cue The Alphabet, Joseph T. Shipley

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A collection of words and phrases beginning with each of the letters.

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The Political Scene, Dmitri A. Borgmann May 1975

The Political Scene, Dmitri A. Borgmann

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For some years, an investigation has been under way, looking into the logological characteristics of the names of the two major American political parties, the DEMOCRATIC and the REPUBLICAN parties. What follows is an interim report on the findings.

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O.K., Ralph G. Beaman May 1975

O.K., Ralph G. Beaman

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Railwayman OBEDIAH KELLY, it was said, put his initials on bills of lading to show that he had checked them as correct in his official position as railway freight agent.

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Erotemes, Merlin X. Houdini Iv May 1975

Erotemes, Merlin X. Houdini Iv

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If you have turned to this article expecting a discussion of erotic themes, you had best look elsewhere. Erotemes, you see, are question marks, and you are going to see a lot of question marks here.

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Answers And Solutions May 1975

Answers And Solutions

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Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.

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Early American Word Puzzles (Part 4), William F. Shortz May 1975

Early American Word Puzzles (Part 4), William F. Shortz

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By 1830, two major changes were evident in American puzzledom. First, miscellaneous word puzzles involving deletion and juggling of letters were becoming popular as never before. Many of them were unversed, but others were in poetic form. One puzzle from the Saturday Evening Post of September 22, 1827 is perhaps a good example of this new style.

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Kickshaws, David L. Silverman May 1975

Kickshaws, David L. Silverman

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Readers are encouraged to send their own favorite linguistic kickshaws to the Associate Editor.

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Crazy California, A. Ross Eckler May 1975

Crazy California, A. Ross Eckler

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"Hey, Dad," said my daughter, Peggy, home from college for the day, "I've written a poem for you to unscramble." (She's into creative writing this semester.) Setting my drink to one side -- a clear head is essential when reconsructing poetry -- I stared at the list of thirty words she thrust before me: anyway, but, California's, cares, crazy, dry, everyone's, fell, go, hanging, if, into, it, it, living, matter, ocean, off, on, on, or, so, somehow, the, there, they'd, underwater, whet, who, wouldn't. This, I thought, ought to be a cinch -- after all, there must be only one …

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Instructions To Authors May 1975

Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors interested in contributing to the publication.

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Back Cover May 1975

Back Cover

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Back cover of the issue.

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Front Cover, Publication Information Feb 1975

Front Cover, Publication Information

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Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents

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Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba, David L. Stephens Feb 1975

Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba, David L. Stephens

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The title of this article, one of the most famous palindromes of all time, was uttered by Napoleon after he had been exiled to the island of Elba. The following palindromic letter, written by the deposed emperor, makes it clear that his debility caused by a local tart named Ada.

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Kickshaws, David L. Silverman Feb 1975

Kickshaws, David L. Silverman

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Readers are encouraged to send their own favorite linguistic kickshaws to the Associate Editor.

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Answers And Solutions Feb 1975

Answers And Solutions

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Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.

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Language Of Science Fiction Fandom, Philip M. Cohen Feb 1975

Language Of Science Fiction Fandom, Philip M. Cohen

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Science fiction fandom, in the broad sense, is made up of those people who are interested in science fiction (SF) or fantasy. In a narrower sense, it is the amorphous group of those who do something because of that interest: attend SF conventions, correspond with other fans, publish or collect fanzines. Fandom in the narrow sense -- the Microcosm -- has developed its own vocabulary, like any in-group, and this particularly rich jargon is the subject of this article.

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Scrabble A La Russe, Robert Cass Keller Feb 1975

Scrabble A La Russe, Robert Cass Keller

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Vladimir Nabokov, like the late James Thurber, is a word-fan's delight; his novels abound with interlingual puns, anagrams, homonyms and other forms of wordplay, so intimately woven into the fabric of his stories that it is difficult to examine them independently. Recently, Albert Wilansky of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania called my attention to a bit of Nabokov logology that forms the subject of an entire chapter in Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (McGraw-Hill, 1969): a Russian Scrabble game in which the heroine scores 383 points on a single move. Although this feat cannot hold a candle to the English-language single-move records …

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Colloquy Feb 1975

Colloquy

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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 that issue.

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