Word Ways
Abstract
Each word in the above title has a repeated letter. Remove those repeated letters and new words emerge: MINUS, WORDY, AXIS. Such words, which drop a repeated letter to form a new word, number in the thousands. When technical and proper nouns are ignored, they still number around a thousand. Such words amuse us by their transformations, and give rise to several non-trivial studies.
Recommended Citation
McManus, Christopher
(1991)
"Ominous Worldly Maxims,"
Word Ways: Vol. 24
:
Iss.
3
, Article 16.
Retrieved from:
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol24/iss3/16
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