Translingual Transposals

Authors

Darryl Francis

Abstract

The February 1973 issue of Word Ways contained a provocative article by Dmitri Borgmann, challenging logologists to pay more attention to classical topics of word play, such as transpositions, word squares and palindromes. Although a number of his suggestions would take a considerable effort to carry out, one challenge -- that of finding English words of ten or more letters which transpose into foreign words -- proved too much for us to resist. A few hours spent searching through easily available foreign-language dictionaries turned up the following specimens of ten to twelve letters in length.

Recommended Citation

Francis, Darryl (1973) "Translingual Transposals," Word Ways: Vol. 6 : Iss. 2 , Article 11.
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