Deletions, But No Change in Meaning

Authors

William Sunners

Abstract

While teaching school in bygone years, I frequently constructed educational word games based on Dmitri Borgmann's entertaining column, Word Row, appearing in Books Magazine (1966) and the Puzzle Lovers Newspaper (1968-71). One of his columns discussed Kangaroo Words: words concealed or contained in longer, synonymous words. For example, NURSED appears correctly spelled out in NoURiShED, and FACE is a shorter version of FACadE; many more were exhibited in Language on Vacation and a long list was developed by Tom PUlliam in the May 1976 issue of Word Ways.

Recommended Citation

Sunners, William (1982) "Deletions, But No Change in Meaning," Word Ways: Vol. 15 : Iss. 2 , Article 22.
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