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Mirror Palindromes, Darryl Francis

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An expansion of Dmitti Borgmann's concept of "mirror palindromes."

Word Ways V.52 No.3 Complete Issue

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The complete issue in one file.

Add A Vowel, Steve Kahan

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Add a vowel to each of these 5-lettered combinations to create a word.

Removing Common Endings To Make Words, Susan Thorpe

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Pairs of words which end with the same group of letters have their common letter group removed so that the remaining letters form a word.

More Straights And Curves, . Anil

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Further variants on the May 2019 article "Straight Letters and Curves."

We're Looking For The Smoking Pun, Don Hauptman

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A new collection of puns.

Transposing Split Words, Susan Thorpe

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A list of words split in two. The two parts may, or may not, have an equal number of letters. The letters of each part are, respectively, rearranged to make a 2-word phrase.

Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors wishing to submit an article for future issues.

Country Transpositions, Darryl Francis, Jeff Grant

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We love transpositions, especially of complete sets of words and names, or nearly complete sets. Word Ways has previously published, amongst others, transpositions of the names of days of the week, planets, US states, chemical elements, drugs and the 300 or so largest US cities. Our latest venture has been to search for transpositions of the names of countries of the world. In this article, we present our best finds.

Adding A Third Vowel, Susan Thorpe

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Begin with a 2-vowel word in which the two vowels are different. Insert, or attach at the beginning or the end, a third different vowel to make a 3-vowel word.

Puny Punnys, . Anil

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A collection of "puny" puns.

Statename Ladders, Darryl Francis

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Creating word ladders out of US state names.

Dividing And Adding, Susan Thorpe

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Start by dividing a 6-letter word into its first three letters and its last three letters. Add a common fourth letter to each group of three and make two four letter words. Continue by adding common letters and making increasingly longer words.

Pelargonium Puzzle Revisited, Donald Knuth

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A new solution to a previously published puzzle.

Arabic: Why Indonesians Have To Learn It?, Letmiros Letmiros

International Review of Humanities Studies

Arabic has many virtues. The first virtue of Arabic is that it is part of Islam. Then, Arabic as one of the old languages in the world has an amazing history of civilization. Furthermore, Arabic is an international language that has been used as one of the official languages of the United Nations since 1973. Because of these advantages, Arabic is interesting to be studied and researched by non-Arabs including by Indonesians. Arabic is studied, in addition to the purpose or because of the factors of Islam, also because of the factors of world life, for the demands of work …

Ray Bradbury`S Martian Chronicles, The Usage Of Epithetic Devices In The Stories The Rocket Summer And Ylla, N. U. Nurullayev

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

The article reveals the content of adjectives. The exploitation of epithetic ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF CENTRAL ASIAN PROBLEMS OF MODERN SCENCE AND EDUCATION. MARCH, 2019-I ISSN 2181-9750 393 devices in stories that are taken from Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles will be analyzed. In addition, the meaning of the stories, their descriptive structure will be highlighted. Some examples are given to prove the author’s ideas

Iwate Prefectural University Japan To Fund Three Ohio Students On Weekend Global Community Engagement Initiative, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Attitudes Towards Thai Regional Dialects Among Students Who Have Studied Linguistics And Those Who Have Not Studied Linguistics, Jaralvilai Charunrochana

Journal of Letters

The questionexamined in this research is whether knowledge of linguistics can make students more objective in their attitudes towards speakers of regional dialects. Data was collected from 236 undergraduate students who had completed two courses in linguistics and 192 who had never studied the subject. In this research the matched-guise technique was utilized. Respondents evaluated guise speakers on five characteristics: friendliness, intelligence, morality, physical attraction and wealth, using a 5-point scale. Although both groups of students made more positive assessments of speakers who usedstandard Thai, those who had studied linguistics reacted significantly less negatively to regional dialect users, i.e., Thai …

Six Ohio Students Headed To Japan To Study At Hokuriku University, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Text As Speech: A New Analytical Framework For Computer Mediated Communication, Natalie A. Frissell

Honors Projects

In modern linguistics, the study of the written word has been considered outside the scope of the field. However, developments in communications, specifically in online or computer-mediated communication (CMC), are making writing more similar to speech than ever before. As writing becomes a more and more fundamental form of communication, the need for a linguistic perspective on the study of this field is made increasingly clear. The primary aim of this paper is to identify and describe emerging examples of linguistic features in CMC, so as to make clear why CMC requires further research within the field of linguistics.

Six Ohio Students Selected As Fulbright Students, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Linguistic Features Of False Confessions And Confessions Not In Dispute: A Corpus Analysis, Lucrezia Rizzelli

Student Theses

Confessions are considered the gold standard of evidence, and yet many cases of false confessions causing wrongful convictions have come to the surface in the past decades. Currently, a method to identify false confessions does not exist and studies focusing on the content of the confessions have found similarities rather than points of distinction. In this study, we approached confessions from a stylistic rather than qualitative point of view, utilizing corpus analysis to outline the linguistic features of two samples of confessions: false confessions (n=37) and confessions not in dispute (n=98). Subsequently, we created a model …

Expertise And Expression In Second Language Acquisition: An Embodied Perspective, Mia Burnett

Senior Theses

In directing our attention to mundane aspects of the human experience, we can discover new ways of interacting with and understanding the world. One such formative experience, regularly seen as mundane in much of the world, is learning a second language. It is no exaggeration to say that second language acquisition is one of the processes which most influences and drives our globalized world, and yet we understand and study this process relatively little.

Continuing the trends of naturalizing phenomenological inquiry, this project attempts to evaluate phenomenological approaches to skill acquisition alongside second language acquisition theory and research through an …

Methods Of Teaching Latin: Theory, Practice, Application, Morgan A. Nicoulin

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

In this project, I present a way to effectively blend modern theories of language acquisition and the contemporary practice of teaching Latin. I intend to demonstrate that a curriculum is able to balance both traditional and innovative philosophies by adapting Second Language Acquisition Theory’s idealized way to learn a language to fit the realistic limitations of the classroom. I begin with a discussion of the history of language pedagogy, focusing on Latin’s influence on the study of language learning from antiquity to present. Next, I present the key topics in SLA and the practical implications of this research for today’s …

A Study Of Chinese Language Acquisition: Chinese L2 Of (Morpho)-Syntax And Lexemes, Brianna O'Boyle

Gettysburg Social Sciences Review

This study analyzes two groups of young adult native English speakers of L2 Chinese. One group consisted of beginner level students and the second group was comprised of intermediate/advanced level students. Both groups were administered acceptability tasks in three linguistic areas: syntax, morphosyntax, and semantics. It was hypothesized that students at the beginning level would have good mastery of measure words and semantic differences of lexemes (ren shi 认识and zhi dao 知道 and ke yi 可以, hui 会, neng 能), some mastery of syntax, and little to no mastery of aspectual markers le 了and guo 过. It was …

A Seating Chart For The Mad Tea Party, Laura White

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A puzzle based on the Mad Tea Party from Alice in Wonderland. Page two contains the solution!

Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 52, Issue 2

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Front cover and publication information for this issue, including the table of contents.

The Periodic Table's 150th Anniversary, Darryl Francis

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Word play using the names of the elements.

New Transposals Of New York, Darryl Francis

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A discussion of transposals of the words New York.

Colloquy

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A collection of readers' responses to previously published articles.