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A Logological Symbol For The Cause Of Peace, Howard W. Bergerson
A Logological Symbol For The Cause Of Peace, Howard W. Bergerson
Word Ways
Now that the human race has the power to blacken this planet to a cinder, it has at last become obvious that every sane person has a vital interest in the cause of peace. By what process peace can be achieved is the problem confronting the whole world; but - however it may or may not be done - it is at least possible that a widely acceptable symbol could play a crucial role in the process.
Recent Findings In French Recreational Linguistics, Pierre Berloquin
Recent Findings In French Recreational Linguistics, Pierre Berloquin
Word Ways
I discovered the riches of logology with the first issue of Word Ways. Since I had been used to fruitful exchanges of ideas with my readers through a monthly column on mathematical games in Science et Vie, I immediately put the matter into their hands.
A State Capital Letter Square, Temple G. Porter
A State Capital Letter Square, Temple G. Porter
Word Ways
Can you find the capitals of all fifty states? They are spelled up and down, sideways, diagonally, and backwards.
An Element Letter Square, Temple G. Porter
An Element Letter Square, Temple G. Porter
Word Ways
The letter square is 30 x 30, and it contains the names of all 103 chemical elements. They are spelled sideways, up and down, diagonally, and backwards. How many can you find?
Front Cover, Publication Information
Front Cover, Publication Information
Word Ways
Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents
Concentrated Consonants, Temple G. Porter
Concentrated Consonants, Temple G. Porter
Word Ways
The twenty-two words needed to complete this puzzle are composed mostly of consonants. Indeed, only eight of the words contain any vowels. In order to make the task easier for you, we have supplied all the vowels.
Edna Waterfall, Howard W. Bergerson
Vowel Language, Temple G. Porter
Vowel Language, Temple G. Porter
Word Ways
The twenty words needed to complete this puzzle are mostly vowels. Even though thirteen of the words contain consonants, they are still more vowel than consonant. To prove the point and provide a hint at the same time, we have inserted all the consonants - all you must do is provide the vowels to complete thirteen words, and vowels to construct seven words from stem to stern.
Homophones, J. A. Lindon
Homophones, J. A. Lindon
Word Ways
Possibly some other term may be in use for this particular verbal ploy, but for the purpose of this article I define a homophone as a word, phrase, sentence or passage in general whose sound is such that it may be written down and interpreted as regards meaning two distinct ways. There is an obvious overlapping here with homonyms and charades, but the former term is really suitable for single words only, while the latter is certainly applied (see, for example, Dmitri Borgmann's Language on Vacation, p. 112) to passages having the same sequence of letters differently grouped, irrespective …
A Biblical Detection Problem, John Mcclellan
A Biblical Detection Problem, John Mcclellan
Word Ways
Only one 5-letter word is found in Verse -------,
Chapter ------, Book of ----------, in the Bible.
What is it?
A Word Game Of Triples, R. Robinson Rowe
A Word Game Of Triples, R. Robinson Rowe
Word Ways
Many words are conspicuous for their repetitions of a single letter, like the S in SASSAFRASS, the O in LOCOMOTOR, the D in DIDDLED and the A in ABRACADABRA. A guessing game can be contrived by deleting the dominant letter in each word, leaving AAFRA, LCMTR, ILE and BRCDBR, then posing the problem of restoration of the dominants - perhaps clued by a key word, which would be SODA for the first example.
Scrambled Animals, Howard Pinckard, Charles O. Cunningham
Scrambled Animals, Howard Pinckard, Charles O. Cunningham
Word Ways
Like the "Animals in Disarray" puzzle in WORD WAYS (Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 145-146), this is an anagramming exercise involving the names of mammals - ranging from the entirely familiar to the admittedly unusual. Most of the really obscure or tricky items, however, are included in the "bonus" section at the end of the regular puzzle.
Letter To The Editor, D. A. Drury
Anglo-Foreign Words, Walter Penney
Anglo-Foreign Words, Walter Penney
Word Ways
The following are five groups of English words. But they are also words from five foreign languages which have no connection with their English counterparts. What are the languages?
Convertible Acrostics, J. A. Lindon, Walter Shedlofsky
Convertible Acrostics, J. A. Lindon, Walter Shedlofsky
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The following poems illustrate a novel prosodic concept. The first set - composed by J.A. Lindon - is a pair of poems which are mutually convertible, both with respect to their rhyme-schemes and with respect to the acrostical initial letters of their lines, wand which are also written entirely in monosyllables. The second set - composed by Walter Shedlofsky - is a set of three - not an acro-duplex, but an acro-triple. The members of this triad of poems are all mutually convertible, both acrostically and rhyme-schematically.
Polyomino Word-Puzzle Results, Donald A. Drury, J. A. Lindon
Polyomino Word-Puzzle Results, Donald A. Drury, J. A. Lindon
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In our last issue we presented a near-solution to one of the pentomino word-problems. Now J.A. Lindon has arrived at the first complete solution to one of these problems, which we present at the end of this article. At the same time, Donald A. Drury, who provides (below) suggestions for solving some lower order trimino problems, has written to point out, concerning all these polyomino word-problems: "To make the reflection a new problem, you must rule out using the same words in any diagram as were used in its reflected opposite. Otherwise, by simply using the same words in reverse …
Kickshaws, David L. Silverman
Kickshaws, David L. Silverman
Word Ways
Readers are encouraged to send their own favorite linguistic kickshaws to the "Kickshaws" Editor.
Instructions To Contributors
Word Ways
Instructions to those wishing to contribute to the publication.
A Dictionary Of Common English Trigrams, A. Ross Eckler, Faith W. Eckler
A Dictionary Of Common English Trigrams, A. Ross Eckler, Faith W. Eckler
Word Ways
This article contains an alphabetical listing of approximately 6,530 trigrams (sets of three consecutive letters) occurring in English words - about 37 percent of the 17,576 theoretically possible trigram arrangements. For each trigram listed, one or more of the commonest English words containing that trigram are included.
Homographs And Pseudo-Homographs, Donald A. Drury
Homographs And Pseudo-Homographs, Donald A. Drury
Word Ways
Homographs, not to be confused with homonyms, are words which happen to be spelled identically but which have totally different meanings and etymologies. In addition to spelling, most homographic words share the same pronunciation. And so great is the spread of meanings - through association, figurative uses, and other influences - that many other words in English could be labeled pseudo-homographs: words with such widely disparate meanings that one would suppose them to come from entirely different sources, as the authentic homographs do.
Reas'ning But To Err, Temple G. Porter
Reas'ning But To Err, Temple G. Porter
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Americans are great hobbyists. For the unimaginative there are supermarket style hobby shops where they can get pretanned leather, premolded plaster, preselected and prepolished stones for jewelry-making, ad infinitum. Then there are shops for collectors of different kinds, such as philatelists and numismatists. But there are some hobbies for which there are no corner shops, and upon which no financial empires are likely to be built. I know a man who collects railroad locomotives, another who presses the leaves of Chinese trees (which are hard to come by these days), and yet another who collects spider webs and mounts …
Spiraling Alphabets, Ben Rogers
Spiraling Alphabets, Ben Rogers
Word Ways
The words HUTS, RUTS, ARMY, and DENE (British: "valley") have in common a property not too hard to discover. They are all transposable (HUTS = SHUT and THUS, RUTS = RUST, ARMY = MARY, and DENE = NEED). Suppose we replace ARMY with NAVY, so that our set of four words is now HUTS, RUTS, NAVY, and DENE. What more unusual, more difficult to discover, property do they now have in common?
The Vocabularyclept Poem, No. 1, J. A. Lindon
The Vocabularyclept Poem, No. 1, J. A. Lindon
Word Ways
Mr. Lindon has solved the VC poem presented in the previous issue - and he has done this under further handicaps, the cause of which was my carelessness in presenting the problem to him. How he finally arrived at a technically exact solution under these conditions is a story in itself. The following passages from his letter make fascinating reading.
Word Association Crossword Puzzle, Temple G. Porter
Word Association Crossword Puzzle, Temple G. Porter
Word Ways
The solution to this puzzle rests not in your ability to divine synonyms, but in your ability to respond spontaneously and accurately with words that you associate with the clues. Although this is the first puzzle of the crossword type in the "association" genre we know of, the genre itself is replete with practitioners.
Word-Pairs Differing In A Single Letter, A. Ross Eckler
Word-Pairs Differing In A Single Letter, A. Ross Eckler
Word Ways
According to a recent issue of WORD WAYS, one of the most difficult feats in English verbal acrostics is to take a word spelled with a "U" and to change that "U" to a "V," producing an equally legitimate word. The only common word-pair having this property is VALUE-VALVE: Marty Fingeshut suggests the rarer pairs LEU-LEV, MOUE-MOVE, TAU-TAV and ROUE-ROVE.
People-Ized Bird Words, Doris Klindt Gundersen
People-Ized Bird Words, Doris Klindt Gundersen
Word Ways
Translating bird songs and sounds into human terms is an ancient pastime.
Bird words, as said or sung, should soar and glide, or trill musically, or otherwise serve as interpretive sound. Birds which say their own names, such as the chickadee, the killdee (r) and the bobwhite quail, are excluded, since they have become a part of the standard vocabulary.
Science And Magic At The Supermartorama, Temple G. Porter
Science And Magic At The Supermartorama, Temple G. Porter
Word Ways
What started out to be a quickie trip to the market for my wife the other day turned out to be a full day's opus, full of agonized choice-making. The shopping list demanded: "cough drops, cough syrup, aspirin, mouthwash, cleanser, hair spray, hair tonic, deodorant, shampoo, shaving soap, toothpaste, detergent, all-purpose cleaner, dish-washing liquid, bath soap, spray starch, after-shave lotion, margarine, fabric softener, car wax, and cigarettes." It sounded simple enough, but little did I realize what lay ahead of me.
A Word Game With License Plates, Jean C. Sabine
A Word Game With License Plates, Jean C. Sabine
Word Ways
This game is for license plates having a 3-letter prefix, as ABC-123.
The object is to make a word by adding letters before, between, and after the given letters, which must be kept in their original order. The scoring is as follows:
Any word - 1 point
A word formed by adding only vowels or only consonants - points equal to the square of the number of letters added
No word can be made - subtract 1 point from total.
Acrostic Poems In Bloom, Walter Shedlofsky
Acrostic Poems In Bloom, Walter Shedlofsky
Word Ways
Mr. Shedlofsky's poems grow ever more intricate. For of them are presented here, the first of which is an acrostic on its title, is shuttle-rhymed throughout, and is also a riddle (the solution to which will be given on page 126).