2024-03-28T11:51:04Z
http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/do/oai/
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1011
2009-01-09T21:09:04Z
publication:wordways
Colloquy
2007-05-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Karen and I were saddened at the loss of Rex Gooch. He was a staunch logologist and his varied efforts will certainly be missed.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/6
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1013
2009-01-14T03:28:16Z
publication:wordways
Where They Are Coming From
Ashley, Leonard R. N.
Linguistics
Article
Some pretty common words have unexpectedly uncommon origins. Here's a little romp in the usually dry-as-dust field of etymology (from Greek for the origin or literal sense of a word), Quintillian's <em>originatio</em>.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/8
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1007
2009-01-14T03:15:59Z
publication:wordways
Rex Gooch Remembered
Thorpe, Susan
Linguistics
Article
Rex Gooch died on Tuesday 13th March. He was 67.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/2
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1009
2009-01-14T03:22:37Z
publication:wordways
Spooneristic Variations
Thorpe, Susan
Linguistics
Article
A plethora of spoonerisms has appeared in Word Ways over many years. A spoonerism is the result of exchanging the initial letter(s) of a pair of words to make another pair of words.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/4
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1006
2009-01-09T20:14:12Z
publication:wordways
Cover, Publication Information
2007-05-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/1
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1010
2009-01-14T03:25:16Z
publication:wordways
Sudoku Patterns
McManus, Christopher
Linguistics
Article
The sudoku puzzle form has enjoyed a meteoric rise. Books of sudoku puzzles and its variants fill the shelves of bookstores. Often overlooked by sudoku devotees is the fundamental fact that sudoku is not inherently arithmetic.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/5
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1008
2009-01-14T03:19:28Z
publication:wordways
Look Back!
Eckler, A. Ross
Linguistics
Article
Over the years Word Ways has displayed a varied logological corpus. In this column I revisit forgotten ideas, connect seemingly-disparate concepts, and suggest further investigations.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/3
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1012
2009-01-14T03:26:18Z
publication:wordways
Canadianisms?
Liu, Andy
Linguistics
Article
What is special about this collection of sentences?
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/7
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1015
2009-01-14T03:37:22Z
publication:wordways
Some of my Favorite Squares
Grant, Jeff
Linguistics
Article
Word squares have been around for centuries. I have constructed a few over the years, and admired the efforts of others too.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/10
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1014
2009-01-14T03:36:35Z
publication:wordways
I See Where You Are Coming From
Ashley, Leonard R. N.
Linguistics
Article
Or maybe not, because much as readers of <em>Word Ways</em> know about etymologies they may be unfamiliar with words, sometimes given quite a twist in meaning in English, that come from truly unusual origins. Here are some that are literally way out.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/9
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1025
2009-01-14T04:06:44Z
publication:wordways
One of Six and Another of Half a Dozen
Mulcahy, Colm
Linguistics
Article
We consider two different arrangements of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, whose applications illustrate a curious numerical/alphabetical duality. These can easily be explored with cards.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/20
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1035
2009-01-14T04:25:16Z
publication:wordways
Consecutive Palindromic Triads
Kahan, Steve
Linguistics
Article
Each of the twenty five examples below is a familiar word, phrase, or name from which a pair of consecutive palindromic triads have been removed. The remaining letters are then run together.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/30
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1037
2009-01-14T04:27:32Z
publication:wordways
A Perfect Word
Anil,
Linguistics
Article
Perfect numbers (PNs) are integers whose factors sum to the number, like 6 (=1+2+3). Euclid gave a formula for finding them: if 2<sup>n</sup> - 1 is prime then 2<sup>n - 1</sup>(2<sup>n</sup> - 1) is a PN. There are only five PNs below ten billion: 6, 28, 496, 8128 and 33,550,336.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/32
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1022
2009-01-14T03:48:39Z
publication:wordways
The Vulgar Tongue
Grant, Jeff
Linguistics
Article
Slang forms a significant part of the English language. The first slang dictionary appeared over 300 years ago, recording terms that are now mostly obsolete. Some of the old favourites survived though, and a few were thought too vulgar to include in standard dictionaries until quite recently.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/17
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1032
2009-01-14T04:15:21Z
publication:wordways
Satanix
Francis, Darryl
Linguistics
Article
Ross Eckler's article Word Networks on Wordlock (November 2006 Word Ways) was about a combination lock that uses five rings of letters, instead of numbers. This reminded me of a similar device which I have, a plastic toy called Satanix, but without the lock capability.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/27
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1031
2009-01-14T04:14:30Z
publication:wordways
"When I Hear the Word 'Culture,' I Reach for my Pun!"
Hauptman, Don
Linguistics
Article
Contrary to popular belief, puns are not all bad. Indeed, they can be intelligent, literate and witty. But a high-quality pun must meet several criteria. The best ones are: (1) original, (2) ingenious, (3) natural and meaningful rather than contrived or labored, and, of course, (4) funny.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/26
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1033
2009-01-14T04:16:41Z
publication:wordways
Signature Spoonerisms
Anil,
Linguistics
Article
Signature Spoonerisms resemble signature puns, introduced in November (06-22, qv). Swap the initial sound(s) of the first and last names (or part names) of a well known person to produce a homophonic pun applicable to the person, however general.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/28
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1027
2009-01-14T04:08:19Z
publication:wordways
Logological Enlightenment
Anil,
Linguistics
Article
How many logologists does it take to change a light bulb?
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/22
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1034
2009-01-14T04:18:22Z
publication:wordways
Distinct Dozens
Kahan, Steve
Linguistics
Article
RECOGNIZABLY is a "distinct dozen" - a twelve-letter word in which no letter appears more than once. Twenty more distinct dozens are presented below, each of which has its vowels (A, E, I, O, and/or U) exposed. Can you fill in the missing consonants?
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/29
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1016
2009-01-14T03:38:17Z
publication:wordways
Anamonics
Myers, Jeff
Linguistics
Article
Attention, recreational linguists! Scrabble players of the world have explained their reach well beyond memorizing massive word lists and anagramming racks of letter tiles. They do not just sit across a multicolored board from each other and smack their chess clocks and shake their tile bags.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/11
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1017
2009-01-14T03:38:47Z
publication:wordways
Dictionary Limericks 3
Gutmann, Max
Linguistics
Article
A collection of limericks defining words.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/12
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1018
2009-01-14T03:41:37Z
publication:wordways
Kickshaws
Morice, D.
Linguistics
Article
I never met Rex Gooch in person, but I got to know him via email over the past few years. He truly had his own vision of language, and his articles were brilliant, thorough, and detailed. When a Kickshaw item invited readers to find other examples of a specific form of wordplay, Rex often would send a bountiful supply of words.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/13
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1019
2009-01-14T03:42:43Z
publication:wordways
New York Times Crossword Goofs (continued from Vol. 40, February 2007)
Shortz, Will
Linguistics
Article
A collection of mistakes printed in the New York Times crossword puzzles from 1993 to 2002.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/14
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1021
2009-01-14T03:47:41Z
publication:wordways
Shifting Vowels & Consonants Independently
Thorpe, Susan
Linguistics
Article
A basic shift sees the letters of a word shifted along the alphabet <em>n</em> steps, looping from Z to A, to make another word. Today, however, the alphabet, as we recognise it, no longer exists. The 5 major vowels have opted out of that all-embracing 26-letter series to set up an alphabet of their own, predictably christened the 'vowel alphabet', AEIOU.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/16
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1023
2009-01-14T04:04:51Z
publication:wordways
Magic Word Dice
Farrell, Jeremiah
Linguistics
Article
The illustration below is the graph of an ordinary cube with its six faces labeled with the letters H opposite P, O opposite A and T opposite D, thus forming the HOT-PAD die.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/18
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1026
2009-01-14T04:07:35Z
publication:wordways
Using Mathematical Parentheses in English
Golomb, Solomon W.
Linguistics
Article
Parentheses are used in mathematics to indicate that certain computations should precede other computations, and also to shorten expressions by virtue of the "distributive law" that says A x (B+C) = (A x B) + (A x C). Both of these uses can be applied to English text.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/21
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1028
2009-01-14T04:09:52Z
publication:wordways
Subwords: A Subdivision of Neologistics
Anil,
Linguistics
Article
Subwords are needed terms branched off or evolved from real words or phrases through mutation or hybridisation, in the spirit of Ross Eckler's "We Need a Word for This!" in the May 2006 issue (p. 75). I tried for two of each letter but fell two short (of space).
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/23
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1020
2009-01-14T04:02:27Z
publication:wordways
A Special Type of Word-Shift Square
Thorpe, Susan
Linguistics
Article
In <em>Language on Vacation</em>, p140, Dmitri Borgmann shifted the words of the 3 x 3 square HER - EMU - RUT, letter by letter, 10 steps along the alphabet, looping from Z to A, to make a second square ROB - OWE - BED. Tom Pulliam topped this by shifting the 4 x 4 square BARE - ANER - RENA - ERAR, letter by letter, 13 steps along the alphabet to make the square ONER - NARE - ERAN - RENE (WW76104). The current article deals exclusively with 3 x 3 squares. Both the above shift exercises involve 2 squares whereas the letter-shifts below occur within a single square.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/15
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1030
2009-01-14T04:13:45Z
publication:wordways
Honorable Mentions
Puder, Jim
Linguistics
Article
It would obviously be hard to overstate the impact that Word Ways has had on the development of the field that it named, recreational linguistics, over the last four decades. So much of lasting interest and value has appeared on these pages that would never even have been thought of, much less published, had Word Ways' open forum not existed over that span to stimulate and encourage such thought.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/25
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1024
2009-01-14T04:05:27Z
publication:wordways
Who You Gonna Call?
Allan, Marc
Linguistics
Article
Here are some phone numbers with clues to whom or what you are trying to reach.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/19
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1036
2009-01-14T04:26:19Z
publication:wordways
Pros And Cons
Anil,
Linguistics
Article
"For every pro there's an equal and opposite con," goes an old joke I just made up. Only it's not true, surprisingly. I found only one pro/con pair in the Macquarie Dictionary (4th, 2005) that were common opposites, <strong>protract</strong> and <strong>contract</strong>. But not <strong>protractor</strong> and <strong>contractor</strong> in their usual meanings. (For vs. against tractors?) <strong>Protest</strong> and <strong>contest</strong> <em>can</em> be opposites, to stretch a point, eg at a politically or morally controversial game. But more commonly they are synonyms: to argue with the umpire. Lastly, might we count the old gag opposites, <strong>progress</strong> and <strong>Congress</strong>?
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/31
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1029
2009-01-14T04:12:50Z
publication:wordways
Return of the Palimerick
Puder, Jim
Linguistics
Article
In the February 2007 Kickshaws, Dave Morice presented what was probably an entirely new logological object, a limerick of his own devising which was also an end-to-end word-unit palindrome. Dave further wondered whether it would be possible to compose a letter-unit version of such a palindromical limerick.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/24
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1040
2009-01-10T02:41:43Z
publication:wordways
Back cover
2007-05-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
The back covers of this publication including a playing board for the salt-mine die.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/35
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1039
2009-01-10T02:38:14Z
publication:wordways
Instructions to Authors, Subscribers
2007-05-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Instructions for authors wishing to contribute to the publication as well as those interested in subscribing.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/34
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1042
2009-01-10T21:52:59Z
publication:wordways
Crossword
2007-08-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Crossword
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/2
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1046
2009-01-14T04:47:13Z
publication:wordways
A Crossword Puzzle Square
Teeters, Joseph
Linguistics
Article
This 11x11 "word" square sometimes uses phrases, crossword style, rather than full words only. Perhaps readers can generate other examples. The definitions also work for the down entries of course, and we would welcome large squares, with no blacks, that had different words going down than across.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/5
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1043
2009-01-14T04:45:37Z
publication:wordways
Symmetries of the Alphabet
Eckler, A. Ross
Linguistics
Article
The letters of the alphabet exhibit five varieties of symmetry (or non-symmetry): <br><br>A M T U V W Y have left-right (vertical) symmetry (.272) v <br>B C D E K have up-down (horizontal) symmetry (.218) h <br>N S Z have 180 degree (rotational) symmetry (.137) r <br> H I O X have all three symmetries (.205) a <br> F G J L P Q R have no symmetry (.168) n
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/3
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1047
2009-01-14T04:51:09Z
publication:wordways
Word Tiling
Cook, Chris
Linguistics
Article
RAM is a triangular tile of size n=1. It has three "lines" RA, MR, and AM.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/6
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1044
2009-01-14T04:46:24Z
publication:wordways
Near-Heterogrammatic Double 5-Squares
Gooch, Rex
Linguistics
Article
In 2006-176, Ross Eckler stated that a heterogrammatic 5-square is impossible to achieve, referring I believe to double squares, but without giving a reason. In the May 1979 Colloquy (following an earlier effort February 1978), Jeff Grant had presented a double 5-square with <em>22 different letters</em>, all ten words being in the Oxford English Dictionary.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/4
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1050
2009-01-14T04:55:49Z
publication:wordways
Phone Messages
Kahan, Steve
Linguistics
Article
The rotary telephone dial provides a one-to-three correspondence between the integers 2 through 9 inclusive and twenty-four of the letters of the English alphabet.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/9
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1054
2009-01-14T04:59:08Z
publication:wordways
Limerickshaws
Morice, Dave
Linguistics
Article
This <strong>Kickshaws Special</strong> celebrates the 100th anniversary of the 1907 British Limerick Craze, and what better way to celebrate it than to present 100 limericks, one for each year? The limerick count includes each 5-line limerick, whether it stands alone or serves as a stanza in a longer poem. It does not include the older limericks quoted in the essays or the partial limericks in which one or more lines are left out on purpose for special effects.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/13
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1052
2009-01-14T04:57:06Z
publication:wordways
The Alert Boss and Fair Clerk
Anil,
Linguistics
Article
My tribute to the Ecklers in February (07-9) was a real rush job with about one day's notice. I'd now like to extend that tribute with an unusually fitting logological twist. The title above is an anagram of the names ALBERT ROSS AND FAITH ECKLER.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/11
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1053
2009-01-14T04:58:01Z
publication:wordways
Spoonergrams
Puder, Jim
Linguistics
Article
Spoonerisms are usually thought of as involving the switch of initial sounds in a pair of words, as in <em>prairie schooner/scary pruner</em>. But as Susan Thorpe points out in her article "Spooneristic Variations" in the May 2007 Word Ways, there is no reason why a spoonerism cannot involve three or more words.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/12
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1060
2009-01-14T05:04:53Z
publication:wordways
Consecutive Palindromic Triads
Kahan, Steve
Linguistics
Article
Each of the twenty five examples below is a familiar word, phrase, or name from which a pair of consecutive palindromic triads have been removed. The remaining letters are then run together.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/20
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1059
2009-01-14T05:01:50Z
publication:wordways
Degaraged, Depiped, and Derotored
Grant, Jeff
Linguistics
Article
There are lots of palindromic words that start with <strong>de-</strong> and end <strong>-ed</strong>. Here are some short ones listed in <em>The Palindromicon II</em> (Jeff Grant and Dan Tilque, Word Ways Monograph Series 6, 2002).
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/19
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1062
2009-01-14T05:08:47Z
publication:wordways
Unique Generic Locks
Thorpe, Susan
Linguistics
Article
This is a sequel to <em>Sequential Words</em> (Word Ways 2005003), words made from two or more generic letter sequences, one following the other. In UKU .LELE the palindromic sequence UKU is followed by the tautonymic sequence LELE. In <em>Unique Generic Locks</em> the opposite applies, the generic sequences being interlocked. In OPINION the palindromic sequence OPO is interlocked with the tautonymic sequence ININ. Many words unlock in more than one way; fewer, like OPINION, have a unique generic lock and these are the ones with which we are concerned.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/22
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1063
2009-01-14T05:09:38Z
publication:wordways
Definitive Tail Homophones
Anil,
Linguistics
Article
Susan Thorpe introduced Homophonic Relationships (HR) in the February Kickshaws (07-41) in which a phonic part of a word is a related word, eg, "fores<strong><em>try</strong>: tree</em>". When she asked for further examples, I doubt she had in mind this many, but she had stumbled, literally through the back door, into an area I've been going at for awhile I call Definitive Homophones (DH), where a homophone of the <em>whole</em> target word or phrase is a synonym or strong affinitive.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/23
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1064
2009-01-14T05:10:12Z
publication:wordways
What's In? A Name!
Kahan, Steve
Linguistics
Article
Each of the fifty examples below represents what remains when a four-letter name is removed from the beginning, middle, or end of a word and the resulting letters are run together. For example, o s o p h y is what we'd be left with if P H I L were taken away from P H I L o s o p h y. Column A consists of the residues when men's names have been excised, while Column B lists the same for women's names. How many missing monikers can you restore to their rightful locations?
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/24
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1065
2009-01-14T05:11:14Z
publication:wordways
Aerst Transposals
Grant, Jeff
Linguistics
Article
My article "Transposing Rates" in the November 1987 Word Ways has examples for 63 of the 120 possible transposals of the letters AERST. Further research has expanded the collection to 85, with many of the original entries being improved as well. Abbreviations like ESRTA (Empire State Restaurant & Tavern Association) are excluded; however, a couple of derivatives (RTase, TSAer) are listed. Names with initials, such as T.S. RAE, are omitted, as are contrived terms and purely foreign words. Due to the nature of the source (Net), some examples may be suspect.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/25
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1066
2009-01-13T14:54:22Z
publication:wordways
The Magic Spell
Friedhoffer, Bob
Linguistics
Article
(Based on Jim Steinmeyer's 9 card Problem)<br>Using your amazing mystical powers, or is it your knowledge of an exotic mathematical principle unknown to your friends, you tell them the name of a book that they have freely selected.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/26
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1067
2009-01-11T02:43:49Z
publication:wordways
Answers and Solutions
2007-08-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained within this issue.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/27
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1038
2009-01-10T02:34:04Z
publication:wordways
Answers and Solutions
2007-05-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss2/33
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1041
2009-01-10T21:53:56Z
publication:wordways
Front Cover, Publication Information
2007-08-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/1
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1048
2009-01-14T04:52:34Z
publication:wordways
Compass Point Sudokus
McManus, Christopher
Linguistics
Article
A recent Word Ways article, "Sudoku Patterns" (May 2007), explored aspects of sudoku squares which employ letters instead of numbers. One highlighted aspect of the article was theme sudokus. Two examples of theme sudokus were puzzles in which various number names were hidden.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/7
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1051
2009-01-14T04:56:30Z
publication:wordways
Cartoon
Martinez, Jed
Linguistics
Article
A cartoon written and drawn by Jed Martinez.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/10
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1056
2009-01-11T00:26:00Z
publication:wordways
The Concise Dictionary of Two Letter Words Revised Edition
2007-08-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
A collection of 676 words from aa, a rough, scoriaceous lava, through zz, a short buzzing or snoring sound.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/15
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1055
2009-01-14T04:59:51Z
publication:wordways
My Visit to Grant's Tome
Echols, Lacey
Linguistics
Article
It started as a simple mathematical problem discovered in the book <em>365 Exercises for the Mind</em>, by Pierre Berloquin.<br>Find seven words which appear consecutively in the given word <em>industrialization</em>. The solution to the problem identifies the seven words as <em>in, dust, trial, at, on, rial, and ion</em>.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/14
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1049
2009-01-11T03:54:25Z
publication:wordways
Colloquy
2007-08-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Ed and Gudrun Wolpow, have had many connections with the Ecklers over the years and add to the celebration of their retirement. "To choose what to say about the Ecklers, well, each word weighs. The French speak of <em>le violon d'Ingres</em> - Ingres' violin - the violin a hobby for the famed painter, but a consuming one. Ross and Faith played our (and their) violins - a delight in our avocational worlds that we sometimes envied for our main callings. Many thanks for this joyful flourish at the edge of our "real" lives - reminding, as in a great painting, how important are the edges."
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/8
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1058
2009-01-14T05:01:00Z
publication:wordways
Spoonertoons 4: Fortune of Reversal
Hauptman, Don
Linguistics
Article
Cartoons incorporating spoonerisms.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/18
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1061
2009-01-14T05:05:37Z
publication:wordways
Words from Dice
Eckler, A. Ross
Linguistics
Article
Word games such as Boggle consist of letters on the faces of dice. Usually one rolls the dice and tries to form a word out of the upward-facing letters. However, another game leads to interesting logological challenges: draw the dice one at a time out of a bag, the first die then turned over to yield the first letter of a word, the second die to yield the second letter, and so on.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/21
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1069
2009-01-11T02:46:49Z
publication:wordways
Back cover
2007-08-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Back cover, including a crossword puzzle.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/29
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1068
2009-01-11T02:45:27Z
publication:wordways
Instructions to Authors, Subscribers
2007-08-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Instructions to authors interested in contributing and readers interested in subscribing.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/28
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1071
2009-01-14T05:28:28Z
publication:wordways
Crossword
2008-05-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
A crossword puzzle.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/2
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1070
2009-01-14T05:27:01Z
publication:wordways
Front Cover, Publication Information
2008-05-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/1
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1073
2009-01-14T05:31:00Z
publication:wordways
Kickshaws Revisited
Silverman, David L.
Linguistics
Article
A kickshaw is defined either in a neutral manner as "a bauble, rifle, or knicknack" or more flatteringly as "a fancy tidbit; a delicacy." The purpose of this feature is to satisfy both definitions by presenting linguistic items of light weight and vast diversity, designed to appeal to the tastes of all recreational linguisticians.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/4
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1072
2009-01-14T05:29:33Z
publication:wordways
Look Back!
Eckler, A. Ross
Linguistics
Article
Over the years Word Ways has displayed a varied logological corpus. In this column I revisit forgotten ideas, connect seemingly-disparate concepts, and suggest further investigation.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/3
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1074
2009-01-14T05:32:15Z
publication:wordways
Some Cryptographic Challenges
Silverman, David L.
Linguistics
Article
The Word Buff offers a pangrammatic cryptogram which is deceptively difficult to solve (both Darryl Francis and Ross Eckler failed to do so). Can Word Ways readers do it?
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/5
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1075
2009-01-12T01:03:54Z
publication:wordways
Colloquy
2008-05-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
This March was the eighth Gathering 4 Gardner held every two years in Atlanta to honor Martin Gardner. Gardner was instrumental in the start-up of <em>Word Ways</em> and most readers will be aware of the 93 year-old's long time interest in word play (His book on Word Play is due to be published later this year).
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/6
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1078
2009-01-14T05:40:30Z
publication:wordways
The Vulgar Tongue
Grant, Jeff
Linguistics
Article
Slang forms a significant part of the English language. The first slang dictionary appeared over 300 years ago, recording terms that are now mostly obsolete. Some of the old favourites survived though, and a few were thought too vulgar to include in standard dictionaries until quite recently.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/9
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1076
2009-01-14T05:38:16Z
publication:wordways
Russian Alphamagic Squares
Croft, Lee B.
Linguistics
Article
It has been twenty-two years since Dutch Mathematician Lee C. F. Sallows defined certain "magic" squares of numbers to be "alphamagic" squares. He then wrote: "<em>Alphamagic</em> is the word I use to describe any magic array ... that remains magic when all of its entries are replaced by numbers representing the word length, in letters, of their conventional written names (thus one (1) becomes 3)." <strong>Such an alphamagic array represents an extraordinary confluence of "magic" in the world of numbers with "magic" in the world of words.</strong>
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/7
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1080
2009-01-14T05:45:34Z
publication:wordways
Logology in Hollywood
Holgate, John
Linguistics
Article
The IMDb - the International Movie Database (http://www.imdb.com) - is a handy source of data for logology.<br>Dipping into it recently I was pleased to unearth a fourteen-step transpositional ladder starting with Steven Spielberg's sublime classic 'ET - the Extraterrestrial' and ending with the ridiculous romantic comedy 'Miss Personality'.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/12
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1081
2009-01-14T05:46:38Z
publication:wordways
-Gry Revisited
Francis, Darryl
Linguistics
Article
Over the years, much has been written in Word Ways about words and names ending in the three letters -gry. Since these same three letters can also be arranged in five other ways, I wondered whether any words existed that ended with these. A hunt through the Oxford English Dictionary turned up some items of interest.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/13
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1077
2009-01-14T05:39:29Z
publication:wordways
Odes from the Odd Topics Society
Baetzhold, Howard G.
Linguistics
Article
Butler's Odd Topics Society meets every now and then to discuss Odd Topics of any nature. Professor Baetzhold is the Poet Laureate Odd Topics Society.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/8
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1086
2009-01-14T21:33:06Z
publication:wordways
Lomorock
Golomb, Solomon W.
Linguistics
Article
Guess what Sol's favorite vowel is! He claims this is "very poetic. Translation: It doesn't make much sense!" Can readers supply the sense?
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/17
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1082
2009-01-14T05:48:21Z
publication:wordways
Rocket Surgery
Hauptman, Don
Linguistics
Article
As I continue to work on a book of funny errors, I encounter no shortage of material. Whether online, or in print, one readily finds such confusions - often with amusing consequences - as <em>tenant</em> for <em>tenet</em>, <em>diffuse</em> for <em>defuse</em>, <em>pour</em> for <em>pore</em>, <em>loathe</em> for <em>loath</em>, <em>martial</em> for <em>marital</em>, <em>pubic</em> for <em>public</em>, <em>Calvary</em> for <em>cavalry</em>. But nothing quite equals the distinctive website address inexplicably chosen by a shrink named Richard S. Horowitz: richardtherapist.com. Your blooper contributions, to the above address, are welcomed. Now, here is a collection of risible specimens.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/14
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1084
2009-01-14T21:28:54Z
publication:wordways
Overlapping Sequences
Thorpe, Susan
Linguistics
Article
Starting with two or more generic sequences, there are several ways in which they may be arranged in relation to each other, sometimes forming a word.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/15
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1087
2009-01-14T21:40:01Z
publication:wordways
I Love You More Than...
Nightingale, Simon
Linguistics
Article
When my children were little we played a game called "I love you more than...". It involved making a long list and alternatingly adding an item. The aim was to memorise the list. If you failed to remember the list, then you didn't love enough!! It is the same principle as "my aunt packed in her trunk...". By tradition, we always started with "I love you more than all the tea in china ... and the hairs on my head and the grass in the meadow and so on ...."
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/18
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1085
2009-01-14T21:31:27Z
publication:wordways
Nanomechatronics
Pegg, Ed, Jr.
Linguistics
Article
I like nanomechatronics a lot. Add a single letter to a phrase and come up with an arrangement of a topic or person in the news.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/16
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1089
2009-01-14T21:42:44Z
publication:wordways
Bailey's Hexameters
Farrell, Jeremiah
Linguistics
Article
This was Al Shapiro's handout at the Gathering 4 Gardner 8 in March 2008.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/20
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1088
2009-01-14T21:41:32Z
publication:wordways
Letter Banks
Pegg, Ed, Jr.
Linguistics
Article
Letter banks use and reuse the letters of a given set (the bank). Here are some nice examples.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/19
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1092
2009-01-14T21:54:53Z
publication:wordways
A Backgammon Tournament in Mathematics Puns
Emmons, Win
Linguistics
Article
I'm from the wide open <strong>SPACES</strong> near <strong>L-p</strong>aso, and they call me <strong>T</strong>E<strong>X</strong>. One Sunday several years ago Emma, Dee, Polly, Cal and I were <strong>TURING</strong> Kentucky in our <strong>CHEV ALLEY</strong> when I suggested that we attend a backgammon tournament in <strong>LIOUVILLE</strong>.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/23
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1091
2009-01-14T22:44:06Z
publication:wordways
I've Got Your Number
Ashley, Leonard
Linguistics
Article
1-2-3 now, let's have the answers to those clues about numbers as used in British and American slang. Some are a little "near the bone," as the British say, numbers being used not only for convenience (as in telegraphic greetings) but also for sidestepping unpleasantness. Good luck. 10-4.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/22
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1093
2009-01-14T21:55:58Z
publication:wordways
Play Tic-Tac-Toe Ambidextrously
Farrell, Jeremiah
Linguistics
Article
THE GAME: Two players alternately chose one of the words ARTY, BRED, DOUX, EXIT, MAID, MOLT, RIOS, SLA, SUEY until one of them wins by obtaining three words with a common letter. If neither player gets three of the same letter. If neither player gets three of the same letter, the game is a draw.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/24
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1090
2009-01-14T21:44:33Z
publication:wordways
Unusual Words
Thorpe, Susan
Linguistics
Article
GIGANTIC is a word familiar to readers of Word Ways in having two letters G with strikingly different pronunciations. Other words which have two like letters with obviously different pronunciations include J<strong>A</strong>CK<strong>A</strong>L, A<strong>C</strong>ETI<strong>C</strong>, <strong>E</strong>GR<strong>E</strong>T, <strong>G</strong>OR<strong>G</strong>E, <strong>I</strong>NS<strong>I</strong>DE, JER<strong>O</strong>NIM<strong>O</strong>, BA<strong>S</strong>E<strong>S</strong>, <strong>U</strong>N<strong>U</strong>SED, <strong>X</strong>ERO<strong>X</strong> and <strong>Y</strong>ELLOW<strong>Y</strong>. There are thousands of other words with 2 like letters which have different pronunciations. Many of these differences are more subtle than those in the above examples, sometimes only being able to be confirmed by reference to a phonetics list.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/21
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1097
2009-01-14T22:08:02Z
publication:wordways
An Order 5 Affine Geometry
Bumstead, Norwich
Linguistics
Article
This square, composed of OED words, is semimagic because any row or column (the rook sweeps) anagrams into NORWICH BUMSTEAD. "Semi" means the diagonals don't.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/28
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1095
2009-01-14T22:05:55Z
publication:wordways
Affine Word Geometries
Thumpbindle, Oscar
Linguistics
Article
Recall that a finite Affine plane of order n must have n-squared points n-squared + n lines, with n points to a line.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/26
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1094
2009-01-14T21:56:42Z
publication:wordways
Acrostic Equations
Anil,
Linguistics
Article
David Morice in WW 96-179 introduced acrostic equations with the only possible perfect example, TEN = <strong>T</strong>wenty + <strong>E</strong>ighty - <strong>N</strong>inety. It's purity is perhaps best left unpolluted by more forced examples. But nooo, I couldn't refrain from offering variously flawed solutions for the other number names.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/25
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1096
2009-01-14T22:06:53Z
publication:wordways
Odes from the Odd Topics Society
Baetzhold, Howard G.
Linguistics
Article
Butler's Odd Topics Society meets every now and then to discuss Odd Topics of any nature. Professor Baetzhold is the Poet Laureate Odd Topics Society.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/27
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1098
2009-01-14T22:09:32Z
publication:wordways
Still More Consecutive Palindromic Triads
Kahan, Steve
Linguistics
Article
Another dip into the pool of consecutive palindromic triads! As in the previous two offerings in this genre (Word Ways, Volume 40, Numbers 3 and 4), you are faced with a restoration project. Using each of the fifty consecutive palindromic triads presented in the triad pool once and only once, construct a word, phrase or name by placing two of them back-to-back into the compressions listed below.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/29
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1100
2009-01-12T03:33:35Z
publication:wordways
Answers and Solutions
2008-05-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/31
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1101
2009-01-12T03:34:58Z
publication:wordways
Instructions to Authors, Subscribers
2008-05-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Instructions for authors interested in contributing and readers interested in subscribing.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/32
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1102
2009-01-12T03:37:05Z
publication:wordways
Crossword
2008-05-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
A crossword.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/33
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1103
2009-01-12T03:39:21Z
publication:wordways
Back Cover
2008-05-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Back cover of the issue.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/34
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1099
2009-01-14T22:10:22Z
publication:wordways
More Distinct Dozens and Then Some
Kahan, Steve
Linguistics
Article
As introduced in Volume 40, Number 2 of Word Ways, a "distinct dozen" is a twelve-letter word in which no single letter appears more than once. Herein are eight new distinct dozens, accompanied by eight distinct baker's dozens - thirteen-letter words with the same property. As an additional challenge, one fourteen-letter and one fifteen-letter member of the genre have also been included.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/30
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1104
2009-01-14T05:43:18Z
publication:wordways
Kickshaws
Morice, David
Linguistics
Article
A collection of linguistic kickshaws.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/10
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1105
2009-01-14T05:44:31Z
publication:wordways
A Curious Crossword
Huang, Wei-Hwa
Linguistics
Article
A crossword puzzle.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss2/11
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1107
2009-01-14T12:52:48Z
publication:wordways
Modern Sator Squares
Grant, Jeff
Linguistics
Article
Many word-lovers are familiar with the famous Latin square shown above. It probably dates from Roman times and has been the subject of much discussion over the years. The main problem with interpretation is the word AREPO, which is supposedly unknown to Latin scholars. As a result, it is usually treated as a coined personal name. According to master logologist Dmitri Borgmann in <em>Language On Vacation</em> (1965), the palindromic message, 'Sator Arepo tenet opera rotas', can be rendered as: 'Arepo, the sower, holds the wheels at work', or more elaborately: 'The reaper shall cease from his toil as the mower works his wheel'.
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/17
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1106
2009-01-20T23:10:13Z
publication:wordways
Generic Edges
Thorpe, Susan
Linguistics
Article
The letters of a word can be displayed as one of a number of different geometrical forms - a triangle, pentagon or rhombus etc. - in the order in which they occur in the word. In <em>Edge Words</em> (WW98274), I arranged the letters of words thus, in order to create 'edge words', words made by the letters along the left (L) and right (R) hand edges of the particular geometrical form, reading from the top downwards. More recently, in <em>Upwards Edge Words</em> (WW2006235) I repeated the exercise to find edge words which read upwards.<br>Now I am searching for L and R edge words which are generically related. The two words may be identical, they may be transposals, palindromes, tautonyms or Miami words (see <em>Miami Words</em> (2000014).
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https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol40/iss3/16
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1109
2009-01-15T02:01:42Z
publication:wordways
Crossword
2008-11-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
A crossword puzzle.
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss4/2
oai:digitalcommons.butler.edu:wordways-1108
2009-01-15T02:00:12Z
publication:wordways
Front Cover, Publication Information
2008-11-01T07:00:00Z
Linguistics
Article
Front Cover, Publication Information, Table of Contents
1
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol41/iss4/1
684035/qualified-dublin-core/100//