A Literary Word-Sequence Debut

Authors

Judith Tarr Isquit

Abstract

The term word-chain is used when describing word series in which the last letter from one word repeats the beginning letter contained in its successor; for illustration, consider the phrase "shimmering, gleaming, glistening glow -- winter reigns, splendiferous snow" from Mary Youngquist's poem printed in an earlier Word Ways issue. Recently, John Muirhead (a Canadian reader) proposed the term word-sequence for word series in which adjacent word-pairs always have at least one common alphabetic letter. Not the similarity between word-sequences and overlapping word-progressions such as NUTS, SUIT, GIST, GILT, GOLD, LODE, DOPE, COPE or REMIND, LIMNED, DOLMEN, MELONS, AMOLES, MOLARS, SAILOR.

Recommended Citation

Isquit, Judith Tarr (1973) "A Literary Word-Sequence Debut," Word Ways: Vol. 6 : Iss. 1 , Article 16.
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