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Letter From J. D. M. Ford, J. D. M. Ford Apr 1904

Letter From J. D. M. Ford, J. D. M. Ford

Applications for Staff Employments Faculty, Student and Graduate

Letter of recommendation for E. B. Schlatter.

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Letter From C. H. Graudgent, C. H. Graudgent Apr 1904

Letter From C. H. Graudgent, C. H. Graudgent

Applications for Staff Employments Faculty, Student and Graduate

Letter of recommendation for Edward B. Schlatter.

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Colloquy Aug 1897

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 at least one month prior to publication of an issue will appear in that issue.

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Zazzification In American Slang, Roger W. Wescott Aug 1897

Zazzification In American Slang, Roger W. Wescott

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The coinage zazzification is my expansion of the American slang term zazzy (jazzy, sexy). I use it to designate the strong tendency, in American English, to render words slangier than they already are by substituting a Z-sound (sometimes written ZZ) for other consonants.

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Degendrification Of Modern English, Steven Cushing Aug 1897

Degendrification Of Modern English, Steven Cushing

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One of the most important developments in the recent history of the English language has been the widespread elimination of the sexist suffix -man and its replacement with the sex-neutral suffix -person. Words such as chairman, mailman, milkman, German, and Doberman have been increasingly replaced in common used by such substitutes, respectively, as chairperson, mailperson, milkperson, Gerperson, and Doberperson, in an attempt to minimize offensive sexual connotation. This phenomenon has spread so generally throughout the language that it is now possible to discern the beginnings of a new stage of development in which the sexist connotations of -person itself have …

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Kickshaws, Willard R. Espy May 1897

Kickshaws, Willard R. Espy

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A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

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Answers And Solutions May 1897

Answers And Solutions

Word Ways

Answers and solutions to the puzzles in this issue.

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A Survey Of Small Squares, Maxey Brooke May 975

A Survey Of Small Squares, Maxey Brooke

Word Ways

In a desperate attempt to make ever-larger word squares, logologists have succeeded only in producing monsters such as the ten-by-ten tautonymic word squares featured in the August and November 1973 issues of Word Ways. Is it not time to recall the intrinsic beauty and extreme versatility of smaller word squares -- say, those of size six-by-six or less? This article surveys a wide variety of such squares, taken from past issues of Word Ways, from Dmitri Borgmann's Language on Vacation (Scribner's, 1965), and from Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.

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Senator's Opera Treat - To A Rope, Ted Clarke Aug 199

Senator's Opera Treat - To A Rope, Ted Clarke

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I take my hat off to the 'paper-and-pencil practitioner' Peter Newby for his clever article "Opera's Not Over 'Til Arepo Returns", which I naturally assume was produced without the aid of a computer. At first sight I thought he really had beaten computer buffs to the punch. A few weeks ago I tackled this classic problem, using the Wordsworth database of 14,300 five-letter words; I gave it up as impossible!

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