Add to ORKGMany word-lovers are familiar with the famous Latin square shown above. It probably dates from Roman times and has been the subject of much discussion over the years. The main problem with interpretation is the word AREPO, which is supposedly unknown to Latin scholars. As a result, it is usually treated as a coined personal name. According to master logologist Dmitri Borgmann in Language On Vacation (1965), the palindromic message, \u27Sator Arepo tenet opera rotas\u27, can be rendered as: \u27Arepo, the sower, holds the wheels at work\u27, or more elaborately: \u27The reaper shall cease from his toil as the mower works his wheel\u27
I take my hat off to the \u27paper-and-pencil practitioner\u27 Peter Newby for his clever article O...
A word square (n-square) consists of a n rows, each containing a different n-letter word, so that th...
Logology has intrigued many writers. George Bernard Shaw, for example, gave us the word GHOTI. Pro...
In the November 1979 Word Ways there was an interesting challenging article by Dmitri A. Borgmann ca...
With the recent discovery in the north of England of yet another example of the famous Latin palindr...
Peter Newby\u27s theory of \u27Arepoid\u27 word squares being merely classical recreational linguist...
The oldest word square on record, the famed SATOR-AREPO-TENET-OPERA-ROTAS square known form at least...
In 1868 a painted fragment of wall plaster was taken from the dirt of a Roman villa under excavation...
In 1979 and 1980, Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics printed a series of articles on...
Considering the enormous difficulties encountered in the construction of large word squares, it is n...
The history of the discovery, and significance, of the Rotas square has been documented in detail in...
More than ten years have passed since In Search of the Ten-Square appeared in the November 1990 Wo...
It was the third discovery of the rotas square that finally cast disrepute upon the third century A....
A few years ago, I produced a few thousand nine squares, but they have lain fallow since, as Chris C...
A Latin square is an n X n array filled with n different symbols each occurring only once in each ro...
I take my hat off to the \u27paper-and-pencil practitioner\u27 Peter Newby for his clever article O...
A word square (n-square) consists of a n rows, each containing a different n-letter word, so that th...
Logology has intrigued many writers. George Bernard Shaw, for example, gave us the word GHOTI. Pro...
In the November 1979 Word Ways there was an interesting challenging article by Dmitri A. Borgmann ca...
With the recent discovery in the north of England of yet another example of the famous Latin palindr...
Peter Newby\u27s theory of \u27Arepoid\u27 word squares being merely classical recreational linguist...
The oldest word square on record, the famed SATOR-AREPO-TENET-OPERA-ROTAS square known form at least...
In 1868 a painted fragment of wall plaster was taken from the dirt of a Roman villa under excavation...
In 1979 and 1980, Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics printed a series of articles on...
Considering the enormous difficulties encountered in the construction of large word squares, it is n...
The history of the discovery, and significance, of the Rotas square has been documented in detail in...
More than ten years have passed since In Search of the Ten-Square appeared in the November 1990 Wo...
It was the third discovery of the rotas square that finally cast disrepute upon the third century A....
A few years ago, I produced a few thousand nine squares, but they have lain fallow since, as Chris C...
A Latin square is an n X n array filled with n different symbols each occurring only once in each ro...
I take my hat off to the \u27paper-and-pencil practitioner\u27 Peter Newby for his clever article O...
A word square (n-square) consists of a n rows, each containing a different n-letter word, so that th...
Logology has intrigued many writers. George Bernard Shaw, for example, gave us the word GHOTI. Pro...