Tautonyms - i.e., words, phrases, etc. whose spelling is tautological - are of two kinds: terms such as froufrou and Pago Pago, which were fashioned from two or more identical subunits, and terms such as hotshots and valval, which were not. In the first group, tautological spelling is automatic, while in the second group its occurrence is a matter of chance
If letters are assigned values according to their numerical positions in the alphabet (A=1, B=2, etc...
When I read Dmitri Borgmann\u27s article on 100-letter tautonymic word squares in the November 1973 ...
Some while ago, we began to consider the whole class of words (and other dictionary items) where the...
A Tautonym or reduplication is a word or name consisting of two identical parts, one following the o...
In Alfalfa and All That in the November 1978 Word Ways, Leroy F. Meyers presented a variety of Eng...
A tautonym is a word, name or term which consists of two or more identical parts. Examples are DODO,...
In a companion article, Hugo Brandt Corstius exhibits a set of Dutch words consisting of a tautonyms...
Assigning A=1, B=2, etc., the letters forming the first and second halves of a word within an even n...
Most tautonymic words, as well as consisting of a repeated letter/group of letters, are also phoneti...
Whether you call them repeaters, double-ups, reduplications, or technically, tautonyms, words like F...
The first article in this series concerned itself with the shortest and the longest American place n...
In 1921 Tunste {pseudonym of Paul Bryan, a National Puzzlers\u27 League member} revealed to Puzzledo...
Triple tautonyms are hard to find. I know if only two in Webster\u27s Third Edition, cha-cha-cha and...
A tautonym was originally the same word repeated for genus and species, though in Word Ways it is us...
The letter pattern of some word genres is only a whisker away from the letter pattern of other word ...
If letters are assigned values according to their numerical positions in the alphabet (A=1, B=2, etc...
When I read Dmitri Borgmann\u27s article on 100-letter tautonymic word squares in the November 1973 ...
Some while ago, we began to consider the whole class of words (and other dictionary items) where the...
A Tautonym or reduplication is a word or name consisting of two identical parts, one following the o...
In Alfalfa and All That in the November 1978 Word Ways, Leroy F. Meyers presented a variety of Eng...
A tautonym is a word, name or term which consists of two or more identical parts. Examples are DODO,...
In a companion article, Hugo Brandt Corstius exhibits a set of Dutch words consisting of a tautonyms...
Assigning A=1, B=2, etc., the letters forming the first and second halves of a word within an even n...
Most tautonymic words, as well as consisting of a repeated letter/group of letters, are also phoneti...
Whether you call them repeaters, double-ups, reduplications, or technically, tautonyms, words like F...
The first article in this series concerned itself with the shortest and the longest American place n...
In 1921 Tunste {pseudonym of Paul Bryan, a National Puzzlers\u27 League member} revealed to Puzzledo...
Triple tautonyms are hard to find. I know if only two in Webster\u27s Third Edition, cha-cha-cha and...
A tautonym was originally the same word repeated for genus and species, though in Word Ways it is us...
The letter pattern of some word genres is only a whisker away from the letter pattern of other word ...
If letters are assigned values according to their numerical positions in the alphabet (A=1, B=2, etc...
When I read Dmitri Borgmann\u27s article on 100-letter tautonymic word squares in the November 1973 ...
Some while ago, we began to consider the whole class of words (and other dictionary items) where the...