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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)A pangram is a text that contains each letter of the alphabet at least once. Some celebrated examples: * "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." * "Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs." Short pangrams...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)Recently, at a neighborhood French bistro, I spotted on the menu a side dish identified as "pommel frites." A pommel is the knoblike protuberance on a saddle, or part of a sword. Not quite as tasty! Typos on menus have...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)In PALINDROMIC VOWELS AND TAUTONYMIC VOWELS (WW May 2019) I included a small number (20 in all) of single words having palindromic vowels. The lists below offer a much larger selection. 3-LETTER PALINDROMIC PATTERNS...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)* SOME REDEFINITIONS by Captain Kidding, word pirate antibody a person who would rather be incorporeal (like Sheldon in Big Bang Theory) et cetera what you say when you've run out of ideas and don't care to admit it...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)Claude Shannon may be remembered as the father of information theory for the formula engraved on his tombstone, but it's not the only measure of entropy he helped devise. Metric entropy gauges the amount of information...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)I'm looked down on by most modern poets, who use only free verse and disdain rhyme. I here humbly seek to make amends by writing some free verse. To suit my childish mentality I start on Nursery Rhymes, translating some...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)Consider the 3-word phrase VAN LED WAY. Changing the _ first of the 3 letters in each word makes another phrase, JAN WED RAY. Repeat the exercise to make a third phrase, IAN FED MAY. VAN LED WAY JAN WED RAY IAN FED MAY...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)Large word squares have been pursued in many languages, but large word squares in Latin appear to have remained unexplored, despite the form's origins in ancient Rome and despite the benefits offered by Latin...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)Many negative words beginning with in- and some with im- do not become positive words by simply dropping the negative prefix--e.g., perious is not a word. I found no un- words of interest. QUIZ: Pick which of the words...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)A word puzzle. What do the three phrases have in common? (1) A late rate. (2) Area rates. (3) Large area. Of course they are all nine letters long but also they have one letter used three times two letters used...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)The vowels in each word are tautonymic. AEAE CASTLEGATE HAPPENSTANCE JASPERWARE LACERATE MASTERCLASSES NAMEPLATE PALEFACE RAGGLE-TAGGLE SALEABLE TABERNACLE VAL-DE-MARNE (N France) WATERGATE AIAI AIR-RAID ANTICLASTIC...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)Disinterest in tennis should not prevent wordplay lovers from enjoying these personal palindromes (PDs). Jeff presented an article on palindromic names in the August 1996 Word Ways. A few were tennis players. Here we add...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)Sir, I am sending a copy of letter received by me from Martin Gardner who was one of the founding fathers of the journal Wordways along with Dmitri Borgmann. I shall be happy if you will consider it for publication of...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)This puzzle was suggested by Chris Morgan who recalled my Tuesday, November 5, 1996 crossword in the New> York Times that predicated the win between Clinton and Bob Dole in that day's election. This puzzle concerns...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)It is well known that the word palindrome was first introduced by Henry Peacham in 1638. The word is a dithematic one consisting of two parts : palim meaning again and drome meaning ways and running. But we should...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)Three-card monte, or, "find the lady," is a scam sometimes perpetrated on the streets of our large cities where the sharper places a queen and two other cards face downward, shuffles them around, and then invites the...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)AE ALGAE BRAE CONVOLVULACEAE DIOSCOREACEAE ERIOCAULACEAE FAGACEAE GRAMINEAE HAEMODORACEAE IRIDACEAE JUNCACEAE LILIACEAE MYRICACEAE NYSSACEAE ONAGRACEAE PUNICACEAE RUTACEAE SABIACEAE TRIGONIACEAE URTICACEAE VOCHYSIACEAE...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)Next month marks the 110th birthday of recreational linguist extraordinaire Willard Espy (b. Dec. 11, 1910; d. Feb. 20, 1999). I had read his books well before I began writing about wordplay. As I was researching my...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)I had heard the rumors for years. Somewhere, deep in the back woods, there existed an enclave of mentalists with some clever new prediction tricks. In fact, I finally learned that the group, the mysterious MOUSTERIAN...
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From:Word Ways (Vol. 53, Issue 4)This sequel to all the variations of Mary Had a Little Lamb in past Word Ways is from my upcoming poetry collection, 101 Animat Universes. After Mary's Little Lamb Ran Away For to give her life renewal Mary got a...