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Transposals Of Given Names, Darryl Francis
Transposals Of Given Names, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
The logologist often notices that given names (also termed first names, Christian names, or personal names) can be transposed to give everyday English words. For example, ALFRED gives FLARED; ANDREW gives WANDER, WARDEN and WARNED; GLENDA gives ANGLED and DANGLE; and INGRID gives RIDING. The number of such transposals is very large, probably almost as large as the number of given names. Consequently, a full list of transposable names could only be treated adequately in the confines of an extensive transposal dictionary.
A Forbidden Word, Dmitri A. Borgmann
A Forbidden Word, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
Some words are considered so offensive to public morals that almost no dictionary ever published has had the courage to include them.
Big Amy On Wee Knights, Ralph G. Beaman
Big Amy On Wee Knights, Ralph G. Beaman
Word Ways
A Charade Word is a word that may be divided into two or more words: CHARADE = CHAR + ADE. As the game is ordinarily played, one should choose words having component parts that when said together sound more or less like the whole word; otherwise, one may run into difficulties: BEAU TIES sounds like BOW TIES rather than the desired BEAUTIES. For an article such as this, however, where sight is more important than sound, we are not so restricted.
Animated Anagrams, John Mcclellan
Animated Anagrams, John Mcclellan
Word Ways
Although transpositions -- the rearrangement of letters in one word to form another -- lie near the core of logology, few word puzzles are based on them. Most often, one is given a list of words and words and asked to find their transposed forms. It doesn't take very long to do this unless the words are lengthy or rare (although the transpositions of CHESTY and SUTURE are surprisingly difficult to find).
Natural Horrors, Merlin X. Houdini Iv
Natural Horrors, Merlin X. Houdini Iv
Word Ways
In a previous article, I addressed myself to the subject of fears related to sex. In this article, I propose to deal with those fears, dreads, and aversions concerned with natural phenomena: the four basic elements of the ancients, the daily and seasonal cycles, atmospheric and meteorological phenomena, and astronomical phenomena.
Instructions To Authors
Word Ways
Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to the publication.
Literary Cardinals, Darryl Francis
Literary Cardinals, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Numbers are not just for counting!
The cardinal numbers (1, 2, 3, 4 and so on) are learnt fairly early on in life and, for the most part, seem to be used in a fairly mundane way by most people. There is nothing startling about such everyday items as "one man", "two dogs", "three cars", "four shops", "five trains", and so forth. This is what the cardinal numbers were originally meant for and this is, indeed, how most people use them.
Vocabulary
Word Ways
I can remember it well. And I shall never forget it.
The Master spoke, "My logologist son, be this forever ingrained on your memory. A large vocabulary will serve you in good times and bad. To get ahead in this world, one must know The Word."
Refractory Rhymes, Ralph G. Beaman
Refractory Rhymes, Ralph G. Beaman
Word Ways
In his syndicated column of November 12, 1974, L. M. Boyd issued the following challenge to his readers:
Our Language Man once reported that "silver", "spirit" and "chimney" are words that do not rhyme with any other words. To that brief list, he now adds "liquid", "window" and "carpet". Any others?
Well, Mr. Language Man, if you insist upon a ready-made word from Webster's Unabridged rhyming with any of these, the task is very likely impossible. But who said that rhymesters had to be restricted to single words?
Hark The Bark, Maxey Brooke
Hark The Bark, Maxey Brooke
Word Ways
Everyone knows that dogs bark "Bow-wow". Except for Orphan Annie's dog Sandy, who barks "Arf".
The Venereal Game, Willard R. Espy
The Venereal Game, Willard R. Espy
Word Ways
The adjective venereal is defined in dictionaries as pertaining to sexual intercourse, but the associated noun, venery, relates either to coital activity or to the hunting of game. Although Venus pursued her prey indiscriminately in bower or bosky dell, in the venereal game only the bosky dell is involved. James Lipton's An Exaltation of Larks lists scores of venereal terms, relics of mediaeval times. Some -- a school of fish, a pride of lions -- are still in general use; others -- a skulk of foxes, a barren of mules -- are still used by specialists; still others have vanished …
Early American Word Puzzles (Part 3), William F. Shortz
Early American Word Puzzles (Part 3), William F. Shortz
Word Ways
During the first third of the nineteenth century in the United States, the overall popularity of word puzzles began to stabilize and then drop somewhat. As enthusiasm for all forms of literature dropped during this period, it was natural that interest in word puzzles should decline also. Nevertheless, word puzzles began to pick up new recruits among classes of people which, generally, had been uneducated before the turn of the century. In particular, puzzles enjoyed considerable popularity among farmers and others living in rural areas.
A Readable Polyphonic Cipher, A. Ross Eckler
A Readable Polyphonic Cipher, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
A polyphonic substitution cipher is one in which several different plaintext letters are enciphered into a single cipher letter or symbol. Perhaps the most simple and well-known example of a polyphonic substitution cipher is the telephone dial, in which the letters ABC are encoded by the number 2, DEF by 3, GHI by 4, JKL by 5, MNO by 6, PRS by 7, TUV by 8, and WXY by 9. This is quite different from the well-known (monophonic) substitution cipher, in which each plaintext letter is associated with a different cipher letter -- if A is encoded by T, then …
The Composite Art Of Blake's "Laughing Song", William Robert Warner
The Composite Art Of Blake's "Laughing Song", William Robert Warner
University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations
During the past five years, the literary critics have discovered William Blake, helping readers to understand clearly the various stages of development and the final form of the poet's entire mythology. And recent criticism has also clarified and expressed more systematically than earlier criticism certain features of Blake's total thought. Nevertheless, much recent criticism has hindered rather than helped the serious student of Blake's poetry.] Most critics treat Blake's poems as if they were only literary, completely avoiding discussion of their visual components. Yet, Blake clearly envisioned and intended that his reader view the poetry as a new form consisting …
From Latin To Capestranese: A Diachronic Study Of A Phonological Development., Giovanni Fontecchio
From Latin To Capestranese: A Diachronic Study Of A Phonological Development., Giovanni Fontecchio
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Second Language (English) Acquisition Strategies Of Children And Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study., Bishan Das Syngle
Second Language (English) Acquisition Strategies Of Children And Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study., Bishan Das Syngle
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
The Black English Vernacular In The Writing Of Young Adults From Dayton, Ohio., Nancy Goppert Terrebonne
The Black English Vernacular In The Writing Of Young Adults From Dayton, Ohio., Nancy Goppert Terrebonne
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Conceptual Patterns Of Repetition In The Doctrine And Covenants And Their Implications, Richard Cottam Shipp
Conceptual Patterns Of Repetition In The Doctrine And Covenants And Their Implications, Richard Cottam Shipp
Theses and Dissertations
In laying a general foundation for this study, a brief survey of language, its origin and use by man, and its basic levels of structuring, will be presented. Patterns generated through language structuring and the inherent value of structure in language to convey meaning or esthetic qualities will also be considered. Finally, basic implications of patterns incorporated into language will be presented.
The Demon Championship, Dmitri A. Borgmann
The Demon Championship, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
The most conspicuous attribute of our language, one of which all its students and practitioners are keenly aware, a characteristic that is an endearing frailty from the logological point of view, is the tremendous disparity between sound and sight in English words. Put succinctly, spelling English words correctly is unreasonably difficult, yet provides logolgoys with much of its fodder.
Calendar Acrostics, Willard R. Espy
Calendar Acrostics, Willard R. Espy
Word Ways
The February 1969 issue of Word Ways quoted a very old acrostic poem of twelve lines in which each word at the beginning of a line started off with the abbreviation of a month.
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 that issue.
Front Cover, Publication Information
Front Cover, Publication Information
Word Ways
Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents
Very Long Rebi, P. M. Cohen
Very Long Rebi, P. M. Cohen
Word Ways
A rebus is a puzzle in which a letter or group of letters, called the rubric, represents the word or phrase to be guessed. An example is TLARH = 'labrynth' (LA by R in TH). In a phonetic rebus, the sounds of the rubric play a part; for example, PK = 'puck' (P: you see K) or QT = 'cutie' (cu tie). In an enigmatic rebus, the letters as they stand are insufficient to give the answer, and something not shown must be assumed; for example, Q = 'one-tenth square mile', where the not-shown SUAREMILE plays a part in the …
Letter-Distributions Of Words, A. Ross Eckler
Letter-Distributions Of Words, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
For many years, computational linguists have studied the statistical behavior of language -- the distribution of the number of letters in words, the distribution of the number of words in sentences, etc., in English-language texts. Similarly, cryptanalysts have long been interested in the distribution of the different letters as they occur in English-language text, in order to aid them in decoding substitution ciphers. Claude Shannon and others, in developing the science of information theory during the 1940s, attempted to find out to what extent the properties of English-language text can be modeled by a random process in which the choice …
I Have A Pet Name For You, Leonard R. N. Ashley
I Have A Pet Name For You, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
Onomastics is the mouth-filling word for the study of names, but it can be much more interesting than that forbidding Greek-derived word suggests. Take, for example, the names of pets. All across the United States, there are millions of little creatures (and some not so little) who are part of the family circle: Al (Gator), Pussy (Cat), and generations of dogs named Rover or Spot. I knew an English professor who took his dog's name from Lady Macbeth's famous sleep-walking scene, so that he could cry "Out, out damned Spot!" I'm an English professor, too, but my old English sheep …
Harmonious Opposites, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Harmonious Opposites, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
1973 Word Ways articles by Mary J. Youngquist and R. Robinson Rowe have taken pairs of words opposite in meaning and scrambled them into phrases or sentences unrelated to the original words in meaning. The problem presented to solvers has been to unscramble them and find the original pairs.
No-Dictionary Scrabble, Ralph G. Beaman
No-Dictionary Scrabble, Ralph G. Beaman
Word Ways
In the August 1974 Kickshaws, Dave Silverman suggested a number of Scrabble variants for jaded players. One that he neglected to mention does away with the dictionary entirely, allowing any combination of letters to count as a "word". In this version, Scrabble is reduced to a purely mathematical game, one in which players alternately place one to seven numbered tiles on the board in such a fashion as to maximize their own score and minimize their opponent's opportunities.
The Poet's Corner
Word Ways
From time to time, Word Ways receives a variety of short poems related to recreational linguistics, some original, others published. As poetic output cannot be easily predicted, these will be presented on an irregular basis.
Balanced Word Division, Merlin X. Houdini Iv
Balanced Word Division, Merlin X. Houdini Iv
Word Ways
Since solving Dave Silverman's problem of dividing a 6-letter word into two 3-letter words in all possible ways -- a total of ten word pairs -- I have toyed with the idea of doing the same thing to an 8-letter word, dividing it into pairs of 4-letter words. The number of possible combinations here is 35, and Silverman implied that finding more than half a dozen pairs was impossible if one sticks to the Second and Third Editions of Webster's Unabridged.
Early American Word Puzzles (Part 2), William F. Shortz
Early American Word Puzzles (Part 2), William F. Shortz
Word Ways
With the close of the Revolutionary War in 1783, both American literature and American puzzledom experienced tremendous growth. Scores of new magazines and newspapers were started, and people began to show more interest in puzzles and all of the arts.