As most readers will be aware, there are many words which become other words when merely a single letter is deleted. For example, if the first letter of AMORAL is deleted, it becomes MORAL; if the L of MELTED is deleted, it becomes METED; and so on
While teaching school in bygone years, I frequently constructed educational word games based on Dmit...
In Kickshaws of Feb 2002, Dave Morice asked for words beginning and ending in the same letter, which...
For years, logophiles have amused themselves by converting one word to another by various processes....
As a cryptic crossword constructor and solver, I see a lot of letter deletions: words that become ot...
Various kinds of wordplay can be devised using deletions: the APRICOT contains a PIT, household GARB...
In the August 1989 Word Ways I posed the question Three letters can be deleted from PALINDROME to le...
A neglected subject in Word Ways is that of Curtailments. Since someone should write a definitive ar...
The 2 alphabetically-adjacent letters to be removed from the word must: be in alphabetical order in ...
The word under consideration makes another word when either its first or last letter in removed
Each word in the above title has a repeated letter. Remove those repeated letters and new words eme...
This article responds to the challenge posed by Susan Thorpe on page 212 of the August 2001 issue of...
Three letters can be deleted from PALINDROME in 120 different ways. In Palindrome and Palindromes ...
Pick a group of n different letters, and in turn add A, B, ..., Z to these. How many of these enlarg...
Word networks - collections of words of a common length that can be joined by single-letter substitu...
Each sect, cult or specialized denomination has a Scripture from which its adherents draw inspiratio...
While teaching school in bygone years, I frequently constructed educational word games based on Dmit...
In Kickshaws of Feb 2002, Dave Morice asked for words beginning and ending in the same letter, which...
For years, logophiles have amused themselves by converting one word to another by various processes....
As a cryptic crossword constructor and solver, I see a lot of letter deletions: words that become ot...
Various kinds of wordplay can be devised using deletions: the APRICOT contains a PIT, household GARB...
In the August 1989 Word Ways I posed the question Three letters can be deleted from PALINDROME to le...
A neglected subject in Word Ways is that of Curtailments. Since someone should write a definitive ar...
The 2 alphabetically-adjacent letters to be removed from the word must: be in alphabetical order in ...
The word under consideration makes another word when either its first or last letter in removed
Each word in the above title has a repeated letter. Remove those repeated letters and new words eme...
This article responds to the challenge posed by Susan Thorpe on page 212 of the August 2001 issue of...
Three letters can be deleted from PALINDROME in 120 different ways. In Palindrome and Palindromes ...
Pick a group of n different letters, and in turn add A, B, ..., Z to these. How many of these enlarg...
Word networks - collections of words of a common length that can be joined by single-letter substitu...
Each sect, cult or specialized denomination has a Scripture from which its adherents draw inspiratio...
While teaching school in bygone years, I frequently constructed educational word games based on Dmit...
In Kickshaws of Feb 2002, Dave Morice asked for words beginning and ending in the same letter, which...
For years, logophiles have amused themselves by converting one word to another by various processes....