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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)Covering information is contained in email sent to 32 Poems editors by the writer (I hesitate to say "the poet."), Glenn G. Dahlem, Ph.D. Zhat Ting Dere Gertrude Stein started it, a ting is a ting is a ting, No you...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)Gardner's Mathemagical Birdhouse My project for this class is Gardner's Mathemagical Birdhouse. The roof of the birdhouse is a 9-3 configuration game reimagined into a 3D structure. Just like in the original game,...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)Word-lovers, logologists and others interested in words know that PNEUMONOULTRAMICROSCOPICSILICOVOLCANOCONIOSIS is generally regarded as "the longest word in the dictionary", at 45 letters. To be more specific, it...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)EVERY ONE OF THE TWENTY COLLECTIONS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME IS COMPRISED OF A SCORE OF FIVE-LETTER ALPHABETICALLY ORDERED LETTER SETS. HOWEVER, EACH IS MISSING ONE OF THE FIVE VOWELS--A, E, I, O, AND U. ONCE THE UNIQUE...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)SUSAN THORPE Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England thorpeds@hotmail.com 4 LETTER WORDS 3 21 3 C U BA 4 18 4 CA R D 5 3 5 DA C E 5 7 5 E G AD 5 12 5 DA L E 5 13 5 DA M E 5 14 5 DA N E 5 18 5 DA R E 5 20 5 DA...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)In this mixture of familiar phrases the common element is that they all have words ending with the suffix -ing. For a native English speaker there is, on the surface, nothing remarkable about this collection: but for...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)In creating Silly Animal Rhymes and Stories A to Z I sought an Animal Uni-verse poem for every letter of the alphabet. For X I used xenopus, the South African "clawed toad", an aquatic frog well known as a former test...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)* A TIMELY CHARADE: crisis = cr. ISIS? * Rev. Spooner Recites Marv Had a Little Lamb (Was he senile or drunk when he spoke this nonsense? Or am I just dense and need you to salvage his reputation by explaining it?...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)There are many word articles on isograms and transdeletion pyramids, but there are none which talk about them combined, the isogram transdeletion pyramid. It contains 4 coined words, 3 of which are simply dictionary...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)We begin with a word having an odd number of letters. The middle letter, a consonant, has been given its marching orders, leaving behind another word. letter removed B BIBLE--BILE CABIN--CAIN COBRA--CORA...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)The MARTIN diagram uses each letter of the name to form nine chemical symbols. The Game. Two players alternately select nodes trying to obtain three nodes with a common letter or three nodes of the same color obtaining...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)Chance? Or coincidence? You be the judge! On November 1, 2019, the previous issue of Word Ways was posted. My article therein is a tribute to the beloved Competitions (1969-2000) in New York Magazine, which thousands...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)This is a list of words, or names that start with every digraph, combination of 2 letters, except one. We have managed to put together a list of 675 digraphs, with many differnt sources. List of sources: PW =...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)Reinhold Aman, known as "the oracle of opprobrium", "the Noah Webster of verbal aggression", and "the world's foremost authority on swearing", died on March 2, 2019 at the age of 82. Aman was the founder and president of...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 1)This article deals with letter groups having the same sound, namely Homophonic Letter Groups. These fall into 2 categories: 1. Those which are pronounced as when reciting the letters of the Alphabet A B C etc 2....