Readers will be familiar with assigning A=1, B=2 though Z=26 to find the letter total of a word. Most of the words in this article can be found in the OED Second Edition. dfpf = A Dictionary of the Flowering Plants & Ferns, CUP 1966. Clafouti (cherry flan) can be found in recipe books
Numerical Russian Dolls can be viewed as the numerical equivalent of Words in Words. The latter incl...
In Sea-Changed Words in the February 1969 issue of Word Ways, Howard Bergerson discussed ways of t...
Letters and numerals stand as atoms and opposing symbols of basic dichotomy: literature versus scien...
Assigning A=1, B=2, etc., the letters forming the first and second halves of a word within an even n...
This article attempts to provide a taxonomy and nomenclature for that type of wordplay which involve...
At first sight, RESEDACEAE (the plant family to which the mignonette belongs) is not a palindrome. ...
The division of a word into 2 or more groups of letters, each group forming another word, is called ...
One way of testing words and names to determine whether or not they are really the same despite supe...
Ross Eckler\u27s Making the ALphabet Dance (St. Martin\u27s 1996) lists 20 words on page 236, each c...
If letters are assigned values according to their numerical positions in the alphabet (A=1, B=2, etc...
This article was inspired by my 5-year-old grand-daughter who once asked me Do some words have numb...
Pick a group of n different letters, and in turn add A, B, ..., Z to these. How many of these enlarg...
Several types of numerical palindromes have appeared in Word Ways (Susan Thorpe, Numerical Palindrom...
A tautonym is a word, name or term which consists of two or more identical parts. Examples are DODO,...
A numerical tautonym is traditionally defined as a word which can be divided into a sequence of at l...
Numerical Russian Dolls can be viewed as the numerical equivalent of Words in Words. The latter incl...
In Sea-Changed Words in the February 1969 issue of Word Ways, Howard Bergerson discussed ways of t...
Letters and numerals stand as atoms and opposing symbols of basic dichotomy: literature versus scien...
Assigning A=1, B=2, etc., the letters forming the first and second halves of a word within an even n...
This article attempts to provide a taxonomy and nomenclature for that type of wordplay which involve...
At first sight, RESEDACEAE (the plant family to which the mignonette belongs) is not a palindrome. ...
The division of a word into 2 or more groups of letters, each group forming another word, is called ...
One way of testing words and names to determine whether or not they are really the same despite supe...
Ross Eckler\u27s Making the ALphabet Dance (St. Martin\u27s 1996) lists 20 words on page 236, each c...
If letters are assigned values according to their numerical positions in the alphabet (A=1, B=2, etc...
This article was inspired by my 5-year-old grand-daughter who once asked me Do some words have numb...
Pick a group of n different letters, and in turn add A, B, ..., Z to these. How many of these enlarg...
Several types of numerical palindromes have appeared in Word Ways (Susan Thorpe, Numerical Palindrom...
A tautonym is a word, name or term which consists of two or more identical parts. Examples are DODO,...
A numerical tautonym is traditionally defined as a word which can be divided into a sequence of at l...
Numerical Russian Dolls can be viewed as the numerical equivalent of Words in Words. The latter incl...
In Sea-Changed Words in the February 1969 issue of Word Ways, Howard Bergerson discussed ways of t...
Letters and numerals stand as atoms and opposing symbols of basic dichotomy: literature versus scien...