Add to ORKGThe August 1969 and February 1970 issues of Word Ways contained several comments on word lengths as measured by the number of letters and the number of syllables. Obviously, it is high time to examine these problems in detail. Before we start, we establish ground rules. Our authority shall be Webster\u27s New International Dictionary, Third Edition; only if this is exhausted, or some special case arises, may a different authority be used
Words and names exhibiting high concentrations of vowels have always held a particular fascination f...
Among word buffs, 1971 will undoubtedly be remembered as the year that the Compact Edition of the Ox...
Webster\u27s Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit addit...
This is an attempt to list the longest English-language words of one or two syllables, beginning wit...
In a December 1981 letter, the editor of Word Ways proposed the following challenge:The September/Oc...
Hugo Brandt Corstius has proposed the name oligosyllabic for a word in which the number of letters i...
In an article in the November 1974 Word Ways, Merlin X. Houdini explored and solved the problem of d...
There are about two million words in the English language and exactly twenty-six letters in the Engl...
In the November 1972 Word Ways, we presented an article entitled One-Letter Words which demonstrat...
For an introduction to this series of articles classifying and summarizing unsolved logological prob...
Word Ways has presented a great many challenges, explicit and implicit, since 1968; many were never ...
The November 1971 Kickshaws introduced the problem of finding thirteen four-letter words which toget...
In previous Word Ways articles I have examined vowel trigrams and vowel tetragrams. Since so many vo...
Have you ever wondered about 7-letter words? Really wondered about them, we mean?Let\u27s consider t...
Present-Day English (PDE) has, despite the general consistency, some words in which the number of sy...
Words and names exhibiting high concentrations of vowels have always held a particular fascination f...
Among word buffs, 1971 will undoubtedly be remembered as the year that the Compact Edition of the Ox...
Webster\u27s Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit addit...
This is an attempt to list the longest English-language words of one or two syllables, beginning wit...
In a December 1981 letter, the editor of Word Ways proposed the following challenge:The September/Oc...
Hugo Brandt Corstius has proposed the name oligosyllabic for a word in which the number of letters i...
In an article in the November 1974 Word Ways, Merlin X. Houdini explored and solved the problem of d...
There are about two million words in the English language and exactly twenty-six letters in the Engl...
In the November 1972 Word Ways, we presented an article entitled One-Letter Words which demonstrat...
For an introduction to this series of articles classifying and summarizing unsolved logological prob...
Word Ways has presented a great many challenges, explicit and implicit, since 1968; many were never ...
The November 1971 Kickshaws introduced the problem of finding thirteen four-letter words which toget...
In previous Word Ways articles I have examined vowel trigrams and vowel tetragrams. Since so many vo...
Have you ever wondered about 7-letter words? Really wondered about them, we mean?Let\u27s consider t...
Present-Day English (PDE) has, despite the general consistency, some words in which the number of sy...
Words and names exhibiting high concentrations of vowels have always held a particular fascination f...
Among word buffs, 1971 will undoubtedly be remembered as the year that the Compact Edition of the Ox...
Webster\u27s Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Readers are encouraged to submit addit...