Add to ORKGWe intrepid logologists love to switch around letters within words -- adjacent letters (UNITED UNTIED), separated letters (CONVERSATION CONSERVATION), and initial and terminal letters (LATCHES SATCHEL). In some words we can interchange each half to form new words. Dmitri Borgmann called these leapfrogging specimens cyclic transpositions. I prefer the more playful fortunate reversals
In the February 1991 Kickshaws, Dave Morice introduced the concept of the palindrome ladder, one whi...
By the time we reach six-letter words, conditions for superior ladders are much improved: nearly one...
Many of the articles in Word Ways were inspired by Dmitri Borgmann\u27s Language on Vacation (Scribn...
Recent developments in logology compel me to come out of retirement, setting the record straight. Ar...
A number of words become new words when, contemporaneously, the front letter is looped to the back a...
For the true logophile (word lover), one of the joys of life is rearranging the letters of a word or...
In the February \u2777 Word Ways (77-8), Dmitri Borgmann proposed as the keystone of logology that a...
Richard Lederer in the Nov 1997 Word Ways mentioned words which become other words when their termin...
Although many words and names are transportable, many more are not, learning a bitter taste in the l...
Long transposal pairs, especially those in which the letters of one word must be thoroughly rearrang...
The February 1973 issue of Word Ways contained a provocative article by Dmitri Borgmann, challenging...
Although transpositions -- the rearrangement of letters in one word to form another -- lie near the ...
Over the years Word Ways has displayed a varied logological corpus. In this column I revisit forgott...
On p 160 of Language on Vacation (1965), Dmitri Borgmann issued the challenge For the logophile who...
In the February 1979 Kickshaws, the late R. Robinson Rowe proposed Word Ladders which successfully r...
In the February 1991 Kickshaws, Dave Morice introduced the concept of the palindrome ladder, one whi...
By the time we reach six-letter words, conditions for superior ladders are much improved: nearly one...
Many of the articles in Word Ways were inspired by Dmitri Borgmann\u27s Language on Vacation (Scribn...
Recent developments in logology compel me to come out of retirement, setting the record straight. Ar...
A number of words become new words when, contemporaneously, the front letter is looped to the back a...
For the true logophile (word lover), one of the joys of life is rearranging the letters of a word or...
In the February \u2777 Word Ways (77-8), Dmitri Borgmann proposed as the keystone of logology that a...
Richard Lederer in the Nov 1997 Word Ways mentioned words which become other words when their termin...
Although many words and names are transportable, many more are not, learning a bitter taste in the l...
Long transposal pairs, especially those in which the letters of one word must be thoroughly rearrang...
The February 1973 issue of Word Ways contained a provocative article by Dmitri Borgmann, challenging...
Although transpositions -- the rearrangement of letters in one word to form another -- lie near the ...
Over the years Word Ways has displayed a varied logological corpus. In this column I revisit forgott...
On p 160 of Language on Vacation (1965), Dmitri Borgmann issued the challenge For the logophile who...
In the February 1979 Kickshaws, the late R. Robinson Rowe proposed Word Ladders which successfully r...
In the February 1991 Kickshaws, Dave Morice introduced the concept of the palindrome ladder, one whi...
By the time we reach six-letter words, conditions for superior ladders are much improved: nearly one...
Many of the articles in Word Ways were inspired by Dmitri Borgmann\u27s Language on Vacation (Scribn...