Add to ORKGLogology has intrigued many writers. George Bernard Shaw, for example, gave us the word GHOTI. Pronounced \u27fish\u27, it is a compound of the GH of ENOUGH as the \u27f\u27, the O of WOMEN for the \u27i\u27 and the TI of EMOTION for the \u27sh\u27. But, few writers have made a fortune from a single piece of wordplay. The exception is a trio--Michael Bagent. Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln--who turned one piece of wordplay into the best-seller The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
I wouldn\u27t be a rich letterer if I didn\u27t tell you that the acronimble Peter Pangram who put t...
A new genre offering opportunities for amusement involves what I call palingroans. The first one ap...
The article Words, Non-words, Nonce Words in the May 1971 Word Ways touched briefly on coined word...
Some words are interesting because they have a unique, outstanding property. Howard Bergerson has n...
In his November 1978 article, Logopoeia, Philip M. Cohen defines his title word as a coined word ...
In the February \u2777 Word Ways (77-8), Dmitri Borgmann proposed as the keystone of logology that a...
At one time or another, everybody is asked to sign an autograph book, a school yearbook, a wedding b...
As I survey the logological scene from my ivory tower, I am dismayed by what I observe. It appears t...
Logopoeia (a coined word meaning \u27word-coining\u27) is a natural activity of English-language spe...
It was Dmitri Borgmann who put the word logology into circulation. Before Language on Vacation, hi...
It has often been said that an institution is merely the lengthened shadow of a man. Logology in gen...
It had to happen. The recent trivia craze sweeping the nation has finally invaded the sacred precinc...
What is logology, otherwise known as recreational linguistics? There appear to be two ways to define...
Once upon a long time ago, on the tiny Mediterranean island of Mynorca, an old peasant turned to his...
The Oxford English Dictionary defines logology as the science of word and Dmitri Borgmann playfull...
I wouldn\u27t be a rich letterer if I didn\u27t tell you that the acronimble Peter Pangram who put t...
A new genre offering opportunities for amusement involves what I call palingroans. The first one ap...
The article Words, Non-words, Nonce Words in the May 1971 Word Ways touched briefly on coined word...
Some words are interesting because they have a unique, outstanding property. Howard Bergerson has n...
In his November 1978 article, Logopoeia, Philip M. Cohen defines his title word as a coined word ...
In the February \u2777 Word Ways (77-8), Dmitri Borgmann proposed as the keystone of logology that a...
At one time or another, everybody is asked to sign an autograph book, a school yearbook, a wedding b...
As I survey the logological scene from my ivory tower, I am dismayed by what I observe. It appears t...
Logopoeia (a coined word meaning \u27word-coining\u27) is a natural activity of English-language spe...
It was Dmitri Borgmann who put the word logology into circulation. Before Language on Vacation, hi...
It has often been said that an institution is merely the lengthened shadow of a man. Logology in gen...
It had to happen. The recent trivia craze sweeping the nation has finally invaded the sacred precinc...
What is logology, otherwise known as recreational linguistics? There appear to be two ways to define...
Once upon a long time ago, on the tiny Mediterranean island of Mynorca, an old peasant turned to his...
The Oxford English Dictionary defines logology as the science of word and Dmitri Borgmann playfull...
I wouldn\u27t be a rich letterer if I didn\u27t tell you that the acronimble Peter Pangram who put t...
A new genre offering opportunities for amusement involves what I call palingroans. The first one ap...
The article Words, Non-words, Nonce Words in the May 1971 Word Ways touched briefly on coined word...