Add to ORKGSurprise is a key ingredient of wordplay\u27s charm. Many forms of wordplay amuse us by rearranging one word\u27s letters into two or more unrelated, unexpected words. One basic class of letter rearrangements is Word interlocks. Interlocks are the rearrangements that split a word but preserve the original letter-ordering in the derived words. The title of this article includes two amusing interlocks: laPwInGs and DIsAPpEaRs
Many Word Ways articles have dealt with words differing from each other in only a single letter (suc...
For years, logophiles have amused themselves by converting one word to another by various processes....
Popular word puzzle lore has it that there are only two relatively common words having the five vowe...
Words may be called interlaced if composed of overlapping shorter words. Fagot is a good example, wi...
For several years I have attempted to bring some order to the logological jungle. One result has bee...
During the ten years I have subscribed to Word Ways, I have been amazed at the emphasis placed on th...
Sometimes, the first example one sees of a given type of wordplay becomes the ideal for all that fol...
The following puzzles are excerpted from a book entitled Word Puzzles to be published by Dembner Ent...
You may remember that people used to worry about what the word was for the fluff that one finds in t...
In a May 1991 Word Ways article entitled Palindromic Construction , I explained how many palindromi...
Webster\u27s Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit addit...
One day during his last illness, my father suddenly remembered a car trick from his boyhood. The tr...
1973 Word Ways articles by Mary J. Youngquist and R. Robinson Rowe have taken pairs of words opposit...
Three Word Ways articles have been written by Dmitri Borgmann (February and May 1977) and Pamela Bra...
This article contains a list of words with interesting logological properties from Merriam-Webster\u...
Many Word Ways articles have dealt with words differing from each other in only a single letter (suc...
For years, logophiles have amused themselves by converting one word to another by various processes....
Popular word puzzle lore has it that there are only two relatively common words having the five vowe...
Words may be called interlaced if composed of overlapping shorter words. Fagot is a good example, wi...
For several years I have attempted to bring some order to the logological jungle. One result has bee...
During the ten years I have subscribed to Word Ways, I have been amazed at the emphasis placed on th...
Sometimes, the first example one sees of a given type of wordplay becomes the ideal for all that fol...
The following puzzles are excerpted from a book entitled Word Puzzles to be published by Dembner Ent...
You may remember that people used to worry about what the word was for the fluff that one finds in t...
In a May 1991 Word Ways article entitled Palindromic Construction , I explained how many palindromi...
Webster\u27s Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit addit...
One day during his last illness, my father suddenly remembered a car trick from his boyhood. The tr...
1973 Word Ways articles by Mary J. Youngquist and R. Robinson Rowe have taken pairs of words opposit...
Three Word Ways articles have been written by Dmitri Borgmann (February and May 1977) and Pamela Bra...
This article contains a list of words with interesting logological properties from Merriam-Webster\u...
Many Word Ways articles have dealt with words differing from each other in only a single letter (suc...
For years, logophiles have amused themselves by converting one word to another by various processes....
Popular word puzzle lore has it that there are only two relatively common words having the five vowe...