Come Wade, Dear Maid

Authors

Cynthia Knight

Abstract

The following dialogue (except for italicized words) is written entirely with words consisting of the US Post Office two-letter statename abbreviations. In the May 1976 Word Ways, Darryl Francis listed 130 such words that he found in Webster's Pocket Dictionary, plus over 50 words eight letters or longer from Webster's Second or Third editions (the longest, CACOGALACTIA).

Recommended Citation

Knight, Cynthia (1984) "Come Wade, Dear Maid," Word Ways: Vol. 17 : Iss. 2 , Article 5.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol17/iss2/5