Word Rings from Rearranged Alphabets

Authors

A. Ross Eckler

Abstract

On page wu (wort-uiteinden) of Opperlauns! taal- & letterkunde (Querido, 2003), Battus (pseudonym of Hugo Brandt Corstius) constructed lists of 5-, 6-, 7-, 8-, and 9-letter Dutch words in which the end of one word was the start of the next: for example, query, yapok, knoop, ... zamac, clash. Each letter of the Dutch alphabet was used once in a word-join. By rearranging the alphabet to accommodate rare starts and endings, Battus created strings using every letter.

Recommended Citation

Eckler, A. Ross (2011) "Word Rings from Rearranged Alphabets," Word Ways: Vol. 44 : Iss. 1 , Article 13.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol44/iss1/13