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Colloquy
Word Ways
Websters 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.
Some Cryptographic Puzzles, Walter Penney
Indian Words In English, Mohan Lal Sharma
Indian Words In English, Mohan Lal Sharma
Word Ways
Thumb through an English dictionary and you will be surprised to see the number of words that are derived from Hindi and other Indian languages. Most have been so acclimatized all over the English-speaking world that nobody thinks of their origin.
What's Yours, Fella?, Leonard R. N. Ashley
What's Yours, Fella?, Leonard R. N. Ashley
Word Ways
Here is the lingo of the hash-house, the beanery, the diner and the short-order cook. What would you have ordered if each of the following pithy phrases were yelled back at the cook by the waiter or waitress?
An Anagram Classification System, A. Ross Eckler
An Anagram Classification System, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Anagramming -- the transformation of one word into another by rearrangement of its letters -- is one of the oldest forms of word play, dating back hundreds of years. It is somewhat surprising that no one has attempted a systematic classification of anagrams.
Specialty Definitions: For Jet Age Compartmentalized Society, Or Picking Neu Roses Along The Psycho Path, Louis B. Delpino
Specialty Definitions: For Jet Age Compartmentalized Society, Or Picking Neu Roses Along The Psycho Path, Louis B. Delpino
Word Ways
There exists in America an awesome, albeit subtle, linguistic poverty which is the logical by-product of our society's obsession for expressing itself through the advanced medium of the S. S. S. (i.e., Systematically Sacculated Statement). While scientists are secure behind their Geneva Nomenclature, while politicians are comfortably ensconced in Congressional incongruities, while hippies and housewives huddle in the happy hibernation of their respective jargons -- while all this is going on there is, simultaneously, untold suffering by an incalculable number of citizens who are grammatically deprived because of their occupational anonymity.
Word Chains, Darryl Francis
Word Chains, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
In the August 1968 Word Ways Henry E. Dudeney's book 300 Best Word Puzzles was reviewed and highly recommended to readers. After no little confusion on the part of one particular bookseller in New York we eventually managed to obtain a copy of this book.
More Word Chess, Jean C. Sabine
More Word Chess, Jean C. Sabine
Word Ways
It was shown in the November 1968 Word Ways that 110 words of five or more letters (no letters repeated) can be traced out in the word square to the right using only the King's Move in chess: up and down, right and left, or diagonally. In the August 1969 issue, Donald Drury pointed out eleven more such words. The following list gives 163 words of four or fewer letters obtainable from the same square.
Telanagrams, Don Laycock
Telanagrams, Don Laycock
Word Ways
To play Telanagrams, one must, like the inventor of the game, have a mind addicted to anagramitising. The game was devised at a time when no other amusements were available: while being paddled down the Sepik (Pike's kepi's spike) River in the heart of New Guinea's (we sanguine!) least explored and most tropical (part coil, carp toil) area.
Missing Words, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Missing Words, Dmitri A. Borgmann
Word Ways
If we wish to refer to the quantity midway between the numbers one and two, we say ONE AND A HALF. Elementary as the concept is, it has taken us four words to express it. By comparison, there are a good many other languages in which just one word will suffice.
More Geographic Mnemonics, Charles E. Karrick
More Geographic Mnemonics, Charles E. Karrick
Word Ways
In his book Beyond Language (Scribner's, 1967), Dmitri A. Borgmann presented a curious problem entitled "Geographic Mnemonics." The problem concerned a "device for making it easy and enjoyable to commit lists of states and state capitals to memory. The trick is to devise sentences in which the names are buried, properly matched."
A Second Look At Word Cycles, Faith W. Eckler
A Second Look At Word Cycles, Faith W. Eckler
Word Ways
In the May 1969 issue of Word Ways, David Silverman discusses Word Cycles. He says that "cycles of three ... are harder to come by, and cycles of two, e.g., BOAT HOUSE, are downright scarce". This is the kind of statement that immediately raises my hackles and sends me to the dictionary in search of a refutation, particularly when the problem seems so trivial.
Magic Words, Mohan Lal Sharma
Magic Words, Mohan Lal Sharma
Word Ways
Liberation from the here and now is recognized as the true mark of the escapist as well as the ascetic and is, by no means, a common experience. That there might be a different sort of mystery about the collocation of there and now is seldom realized.
Answers And Solutions
Word Ways
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
Kickshaws, David L. Silverman
Kickshaws, David L. Silverman
Word Ways
Readers are encouraged to send their own favorite linguistic kickshaws to the Kickshaws Editor. All answers known to the editor appear in the Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue.
Instructions To Authors
Word Ways
Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to the publication.
A Reconstructable Crossword Puzzle, Darryl Francis
A Reconstructable Crossword Puzzle, Darryl Francis
Word Ways
Shown below is a crossword consisting mostly of obscure words. On average, the words are short. The average number of letters per word is only 3.86. A majority of the words are probably unknown to the reader.
Gerard Manley Hopkins And Dylan Thomas: A Study In Computational Stylistics., Patricia Gail Chandler
Gerard Manley Hopkins And Dylan Thomas: A Study In Computational Stylistics., Patricia Gail Chandler
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
A Generative Phonology Of The Mercian Old English Verb., Robert Alexis Terrebonne
A Generative Phonology Of The Mercian Old English Verb., Robert Alexis Terrebonne
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
The Sobriquets Of Ultrachess, Alice Gorki
The Sobriquets Of Ultrachess, Alice Gorki
Word Ways
A violently inhospitable wind slashed sheets of rain over the taxi and across the spacious yard, drenching the long walk that led to the streaming, puddling portals of Xavier's tonight doubly affluent front doorstep. The driver leaped out of his vehicle, anxious to escort me - for I am a very young-looking widow - and I helped him negotiate the interval betwixt us and Mr. Balilinkinoff's gale-vexed veranda.
Front Cover, Publication Information
Front Cover, Publication Information
Word Ways
Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents
For A Lewis Carroll Society, A. Vorpal Penn
For A Lewis Carroll Society, A. Vorpal Penn
Word Ways
The publication of Martin Gardner's Annotated Alice (1) and Annotated Snark (2) has given new life to the Lewis Carroll, or whimsicalogical, school of recreational linguistics. Is there a place in the world for a formal organization to give support and encouragement to this wordy school? I think that there is, and that the place is here.
Unsociable Housemaid Discourages Facetious Behavior, A. Ross Eckler
Unsociable Housemaid Discourages Facetious Behavior, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
Before reading further in this article, the reader is invited to ponder the title. What is unusual about it - what property do the words have that is shared by relatively few other words?
The Puzzle Shop Of Uncle Rebus, John Mcclellan
The Puzzle Shop Of Uncle Rebus, John Mcclellan
Word Ways
A puzzle incorporating an illustration.
The Digrams Of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, E. N. Gilbert
The Digrams Of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, E. N. Gilbert
Word Ways
For many years word buffs at these laboratories have made a game out of finding words which contain strange digrams (pairs of letters side-by-side). The problem, as originally posed by M.D. McIlroy, was to complete a table with 26 rows and 26 columns, labeled by the letters A, B, ... , Z. The space where row L crossed column L' was to be filled by a word containing the digram LL'.
Playing About With Word Squares, J. A. Lindon
Playing About With Word Squares, J. A. Lindon
Word Ways
Applying ideas to small squares is more fun than trying to construct large ones. In this article I have collected and commented on a number of such ideas, limiting myself to squares of the fifth order. I hope readers may find my results both interesting and stimulating. All ideas used can of course be applied equally well to squares of other orders.
A Dictionary Of Common English Trigrams (Contd.), A. Ross Eckler, Faith W. Eckler
A Dictionary Of Common English Trigrams (Contd.), A. Ross Eckler, Faith W. Eckler
Word Ways
A continuation of the dictionary of common English trigrams.
On Searching For Three-L Lamas, Faith W. Eckler
On Searching For Three-L Lamas, Faith W. Eckler
Word Ways
It is a generally accepted premise in logology that English words do not contain triplets of the same letter. As Ogden Nash points out, one does not expect to encounter English words containing LLL - or, for that matter, EEE or SSS. Recently, I had occasion to pursue a listing of tetragrams derived from the Second Edition of Webster's International Unabridged Dictionary and found that these triplets apparently do occur in English words.
Foster Compounds, R. Robinson Rowe
Foster Compounds, R. Robinson Rowe
Word Ways
Seethe thinking rear range hand some pal ace her barium. Nonsense? Not if you have an eye for foster compound words. But if you do have an eye for them, the search becomes a hobby and the hobby can be fun, especially when you spy a dignified sign reading DR. EADS, THERAPIST.