Add to ORKGIn order to understand the limits of recreational linguistics, and in order to identify unsuspected possibilities for research, it is often desirable to map parts of the territory. This was the purpose of The Word Surgeon\u27s Compendium in the August 1976 issue and Words Within Words in the May 1978 one, and this is the purpose of the present article. In contrast, the ten-year topical index in February 1978 was a global map of wordplay, containing no descriptive detail to justify the taxonomy used
Three Word Ways articles have been written by Dmitri Borgmann (February and May 1977) and Pamela Bra...
Generally, the problems posed in other sections of our Journal are for the seasoned veteran of the w...
A number of Word Ways readers have shown a marked interest in words in which the central letter rang...
In a December 1981 letter, the editor of Word Ways proposed the following challenge:The September/Oc...
The computer plays an increasingly important role in recreational linguistics. it has already been u...
In the November 1972 Word Ways, we presented an article entitled One-Letter Words which demonstrat...
The following index has been designed to help the reader easily locate specific examples of wordplay...
Depicted here is an innocent-looking letter square. The square was devised by Dr. Jean C. Sabine, of...
Pick a group of n different letters, and in turn add A, B, ..., Z to these. How many of these enlarg...
23751 different sets of four letters can be formed from the 26 letter of the alphabet, if order is i...
Webster\u27s Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit addit...
The rules of our proposed games are very simple. Two persons alternately draw letter titles until on...
This article responds to the challenge posed by Susan Thorpe on page 212 of the August 2001 issue of...
Modern recreational linguistics, as codified by Dmitri Borgmann in Language on Vacation (Scribner\...
In a desperate attempt to make ever-larger word squares, logologists have succeeded only in producin...
Three Word Ways articles have been written by Dmitri Borgmann (February and May 1977) and Pamela Bra...
Generally, the problems posed in other sections of our Journal are for the seasoned veteran of the w...
A number of Word Ways readers have shown a marked interest in words in which the central letter rang...
In a December 1981 letter, the editor of Word Ways proposed the following challenge:The September/Oc...
The computer plays an increasingly important role in recreational linguistics. it has already been u...
In the November 1972 Word Ways, we presented an article entitled One-Letter Words which demonstrat...
The following index has been designed to help the reader easily locate specific examples of wordplay...
Depicted here is an innocent-looking letter square. The square was devised by Dr. Jean C. Sabine, of...
Pick a group of n different letters, and in turn add A, B, ..., Z to these. How many of these enlarg...
23751 different sets of four letters can be formed from the 26 letter of the alphabet, if order is i...
Webster\u27s Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit addit...
The rules of our proposed games are very simple. Two persons alternately draw letter titles until on...
This article responds to the challenge posed by Susan Thorpe on page 212 of the August 2001 issue of...
Modern recreational linguistics, as codified by Dmitri Borgmann in Language on Vacation (Scribner\...
In a desperate attempt to make ever-larger word squares, logologists have succeeded only in producin...
Three Word Ways articles have been written by Dmitri Borgmann (February and May 1977) and Pamela Bra...
Generally, the problems posed in other sections of our Journal are for the seasoned veteran of the w...
A number of Word Ways readers have shown a marked interest in words in which the central letter rang...