Add to ORKGOne of the charms of Word Ways is to discover the more offbeat communities of the United States which feature in the various articles of its contributors. THis factors has even extended to my first reply from a reader of the magazine to my recent request for words of an unusual lexical property ( A Trivial Challenge , February 1989); Martin Gardner drew my attention to the alternate Os of the Wisconsin town Oconomowoc. However, Great Britain has its share of the curiously-named towns and Villages, and a small selection of these may be of interest
Entry in The Encyclopedia of New England; Edited by Burt Feintuch and David Watters. An essential wo...
Over the years, I have written various articles for Word Ways on the logology of the names of the 50...
In 50 Best Canadian Place-Names in the February 2004 Word Ways, we offered a list of Canadian plac...
Word Ways has frequently explored the oddities of United States placenames, in such major articles a...
In the November 1968 Word Ways there appeared a small article on street designations that are curren...
England is an onomastician\u27s paradise: over the years, detailed studies of many different kinds o...
Here are words (all beginning with A, B or C to make things a bit easier) which have been derived fr...
The May 1990 issue of Word Ways carried an article of mine entitled London Wordplay . This was an ...
In Word Ways in November 1973, Dmitri Borgmann searched for names of U.S. Cities, towns, or villages...
If you are finding it a bit monotonous to put Dateline, Anywhere, U.S.A. on every letter you write, ...
A large listing of transposals for the names of all US cities with populations over 100.000
Language has sometimes been compared with a tree: from a a trunk grow limbs, from the limbs grow bra...
When the American Dialect Society (ADS) was founded in 1889, one of the major goals of its charger m...
We love transpositions, especially of complete sets of words and names, or nearly complete sets. Wor...
Excess, we learned as children in Glasgow, was the defining characteristic of Americans: big country...
Entry in The Encyclopedia of New England; Edited by Burt Feintuch and David Watters. An essential wo...
Over the years, I have written various articles for Word Ways on the logology of the names of the 50...
In 50 Best Canadian Place-Names in the February 2004 Word Ways, we offered a list of Canadian plac...
Word Ways has frequently explored the oddities of United States placenames, in such major articles a...
In the November 1968 Word Ways there appeared a small article on street designations that are curren...
England is an onomastician\u27s paradise: over the years, detailed studies of many different kinds o...
Here are words (all beginning with A, B or C to make things a bit easier) which have been derived fr...
The May 1990 issue of Word Ways carried an article of mine entitled London Wordplay . This was an ...
In Word Ways in November 1973, Dmitri Borgmann searched for names of U.S. Cities, towns, or villages...
If you are finding it a bit monotonous to put Dateline, Anywhere, U.S.A. on every letter you write, ...
A large listing of transposals for the names of all US cities with populations over 100.000
Language has sometimes been compared with a tree: from a a trunk grow limbs, from the limbs grow bra...
When the American Dialect Society (ADS) was founded in 1889, one of the major goals of its charger m...
We love transpositions, especially of complete sets of words and names, or nearly complete sets. Wor...
Excess, we learned as children in Glasgow, was the defining characteristic of Americans: big country...
Entry in The Encyclopedia of New England; Edited by Burt Feintuch and David Watters. An essential wo...
Over the years, I have written various articles for Word Ways on the logology of the names of the 50...
In 50 Best Canadian Place-Names in the February 2004 Word Ways, we offered a list of Canadian plac...