Transposing One Genre Into Another

Authors

Susan Thorpe

Abstract

The letter pattern of some word genres is only a whisker away from the letter pattern of other word genres. My current objective is to change a word of one genre into a word of another genre by swapping the positions of just TWO of its letters. By this means, some tautonyms with the letter pattern 1212 (TOTO) make palindromes with the letter patterns 2112 and 1221 (OTTO and TOOT) simply by swapping the positions of the first 2 letters, or last 2 letters, respectively.

Recommended Citation

Thorpe, Susan (2004) "Transposing One Genre Into Another," Word Ways: Vol. 37 : Iss. 3 , Article 2.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol37/iss3/2