Add to ORKGMany word buffs enjoy a solitary investigation, and for them Pears Advanced Word-Puzzler\u27s Dictionary (Pelham Books, London: 1987), reviewed elsewhere in this issue, offers a unique feature. Certain words in the dictionary have usual features worthy of recording as footnotes to their individual entries
Readers are encouraged to send their own favorite linguistic kickshaws to the Associate Editor. All ...
In the November 1974 Kickshaws, we challenged Word Ways readers to select ten different letters from...
The letter B occurs, on average, once in every hundred letters of standard English prose. So, too, ...
Somewhile ago, we took part in a contest where those participating had to find as many words as poss...
A high percentage of the competitive amusements described in Pears Word Games (reviewed elsewhere ...
Webster\u27s Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit addit...
In August 1973 we offered a crossword puzzle consisting solely of three-letter all-vowel (AEIOUY) wo...
In the May 1995 issue of Word Ways, I drew your attention to one of the problem words of the English...
My elder son, the Hollywood film and television actor Maxwell Caulfield, responded in delightful fas...
Word Ways has presented a great many challenges, explicit and implicit, since 1968; many were never ...
In a December 1981 letter, the editor of Word Ways proposed the following challenge:The September/Oc...
In August 1976, Word Ways presented a quiz of mine called An Olympic Quiz . Readers were given 60 c...
In 1973, a reader of the British magazine Games & Puzzles wrote to me asking if anyone had ever comp...
A host of clues makes up this quiz (Deep myst\u27ry here for you to ponder); Each one defines a word...
Since the common crossword puzzle is currently the most popular of all word games, it becomes the lo...
Readers are encouraged to send their own favorite linguistic kickshaws to the Associate Editor. All ...
In the November 1974 Kickshaws, we challenged Word Ways readers to select ten different letters from...
The letter B occurs, on average, once in every hundred letters of standard English prose. So, too, ...
Somewhile ago, we took part in a contest where those participating had to find as many words as poss...
A high percentage of the competitive amusements described in Pears Word Games (reviewed elsewhere ...
Webster\u27s Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit addit...
In August 1973 we offered a crossword puzzle consisting solely of three-letter all-vowel (AEIOUY) wo...
In the May 1995 issue of Word Ways, I drew your attention to one of the problem words of the English...
My elder son, the Hollywood film and television actor Maxwell Caulfield, responded in delightful fas...
Word Ways has presented a great many challenges, explicit and implicit, since 1968; many were never ...
In a December 1981 letter, the editor of Word Ways proposed the following challenge:The September/Oc...
In August 1976, Word Ways presented a quiz of mine called An Olympic Quiz . Readers were given 60 c...
In 1973, a reader of the British magazine Games & Puzzles wrote to me asking if anyone had ever comp...
A host of clues makes up this quiz (Deep myst\u27ry here for you to ponder); Each one defines a word...
Since the common crossword puzzle is currently the most popular of all word games, it becomes the lo...
Readers are encouraged to send their own favorite linguistic kickshaws to the Associate Editor. All ...
In the November 1974 Kickshaws, we challenged Word Ways readers to select ten different letters from...
The letter B occurs, on average, once in every hundred letters of standard English prose. So, too, ...