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lre h? A couple .anon ogy or Eng­field? Once h y ossible sub­ays article. )ne of which ~d arades sing "T" as it ought becomes an ich you pre­tIes are the Ie "Unappro­Word Ways pense advice Ie title "Aid of the "227" to suit your tions 1 have lstruct 1imi t­uently, there dinary title, e. !alues of all Ising an un­23 COLLOQUY Webster's Dictionary defines colloquy as mutual discourse. Read­ers are encouraged to submit additions, corrections, and comments about earlier articles appearing in Word Ways. Comments received at least one month prior to publication of an issue will appear in that issue. Rod P. Selden's entry in the Games magazine Word Marathon con­test ("In Search of Perfection", November 1984 Word Ways) finished in a five-way tie for fifth place. The winning substitute-letter transposa1 ch a in was devised by Michael Wolfberg of Concord, Massachusetts. Although aesthetically marred by repeated word s (allowed by the rules), it is so remarkable that Word Ways has reproduced it below for the delectation of logologists. In each word, the capitalized letter replaces the underlined letter in the preced ing word: terminations, CrematlOnist, Gastrocnemii, creMationism, craniO­tomies, eXorcisa tion-; Viscerotonia, consP i rat i ve, iNcrepa t ions, incineRators, contrariWise, rHetOrlClanS, orcheStrinas, -cErato­rhines, secretionarY, - reFectorian5; necroLatries, interlocKers, necrolA tries, ce leBrat ions, neUroblastic, subJectional, Discount­a~le, eluc..!.dations, unsociali~ed~ eluci~aTions,-eQuinoctials Can logologists construct a closed substitute-letter transposal chain of 26 words, all words different, and all 26 letters introduced in turn? in both directions simultaneously? Dmitri Borgmann adds DIHYDROXYCHOLECALCIFEROL and PHOSPHAT­IDYLETHANOLAMINE, two 24-letter words from Webster's Third Addenda, to the long-ago May 1972 list of the longest dlctlOnary words. He also notes the hyphenated PRESENTATIVE-REPRESENTA­TIVE from Funk & Wagnalls, and ECCLESIASTICO-STATlSTICAL, MONARCHICO-ARISTOCRATICAL, and NlCENO-CONSTANTINOPOLlTAN from Webster's Second. Tom Pulliam proposes two more words in Webster's in which all 24 permutations of fou r different letters are found; EL ECTROTEL E­THERMOMETER (e,o,r,t) and INTESTINOINTESTlNAL (e,i,n,t), Dmitri Borgmann adds the hyphenated examples URETERO-URETEROSTOMl ES (e,o,r,t) and NIEVIE-NIEVIE-NICK-NACK (e,i,n,v); for a fuller account of how to look for such words, see his "Three Miraculous Sol utions" in this issue. The minimum-length word containing all 21. permutations of four dlfferent letters is not 13, as asserted in "All Letter-Orders in a Word" in November, but 12. Eight patterns for such words have been identified, all with a 4-3-3-2 letter distribution, and all with the double letter appearing In the fourth and ninth positions: I £.4 abcdacbadcba abcdabcadbac abcdacbadbca abcdacbadcab abcdabcadcba abcdbacbdacb abcdaocadbca abcdbacbclcab Can readers find any more? Are patterns possible not satisfying these conditions? In the same article, the editor asserted that no Websterian 13­letter word using only four different letters exists. Dmitri Borg­mann quickly reminded him of SENSELESSNESS in Language on Vaca­tion. WAHIAWA, HAWAll is a sizable city on Oahu, listed both ~Webster's Second and Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, and KINNICKINNICK is an Ohio village in the 1984 Rand McNally Commer­cial Atlas and Marketing Guide. BIBLlA ABIBLIA, listed in Web­ster! 5 Second, is a term for books that are not books. Longer words include the dictionary plural SENSELESSNESSES and the non­dictionary MISS MISSISSIPPIS, a term that could collectively refer to the 1959, 1960 and 1980 winners of the Miss America pageant. The Word Wurcher adds FERTl Ll ZER (i. e., begetter) to FERTI­LIZER (i.e., manure) to "Life-Cycle Recycle," but adds "Most of the life-cycle from/to's sound as though they had been dreamt up during the Happy Hour at Camol-zi's Saloon." Dmitri Borgmann notes the odd names of ELSEWHERE LANE and WHERE ELSE LANE, two streets in Milwaukie, Oregon. Alan Frank found SEL DOM GOOD PASTU RE ROAD on the Greater Boston street ma p. None of these appears in the 1908 Post Office Guide. Ed Wolpow believes that Charlie Bostick should have given the sou rce of his Ce lest ia I Shaggy Dog and Two Bi I ingua I Jokes to avoid the inference that they were original with him. His comment on the French Bilingual was "Six~", echoed by Sam Edelston's "Cease l 'Nuf [of] dis'" Mary Louise Gilman enjoyed both, and plans to reprint one in the National Shorthand Reporter. John Hen­rick adds "Everyone to whom 1 have shown the two bi lingua 1 jokes has enjoyed them greatly." Ed Wolpow points out that letter-changes, such as bad-bag-ban­bar-bat-bay, are special cases of Charlie Bostick's Collinear Words. F 0 U R TEE N Phillp Cohen notes that Charlie Bostick's num-I!E 1 G H T:L:D erical crossword was published in the April F~f ~ R[f'E N 1982 issue of Crossword. Alfreda Blanchard's Ti l:T W E L V E improvement, shown at the left, appeared E! V: wrs EVE N in the January 1983 issue of the same maga­EiEloll!"N I N E zine. All the integers from one through SlX-NISl X TEE N teen (except for thnteen) occur in this grid. Dmitri Borgmann suggests that Jeff Grant should have included QQ in his "Q Palindromes" - the Acronyms, Imtialisms and Ab­breviations Dictionary (Gale) defines this variously as an abbre­via tion for q uaq ue or quoque in medicine, Questionable Question­naires, Queen's Quarterly, Aerovias Quisqueyana, and Quantile­Quantile. Is the Argentine town NEUQUEN the only internal-Q palindrol Mark Isaa sounds to suggested 1 A- do-sa-( -A- dos-a-< -A- dos-a-<.. ~ Beroe (FE urde (U EE urdee EG impregn EGH Ra legh ER ca tercor ER- ca ter-c ET chalet ( EU grand j EZ rendezv< '1 I' istesso.:1 Isma'ili 1 calque ( 1 ca lesfn lAE mediae' IDH ceilidh For good r X: TSH pal concedes "1 and the U can take or less En weird way George H Sa uce Cll Fuzzy St i nadverte Mary Hazal rea I-life arr POPULATI the pop an unsf they arE JAPAN PI actresse' BANKS TO Indian I MA RIJUANJ LIGHT TU :dacbadcab :dbacbdcab ot satisfying ;bsterian 13­Dmitri Borg­:ige on Vaca-Ilsted both tiona ry, and :illy Commer­;ted in Web­::loks. Longer lnd the non­ctively refer pageant. .) to FERTl­adds "Most been dreamt E and WHERE Frank found street map. 'e glven the ua 1 jokes to His comment m Edelston' s j both, and 'r. john Hen­lingua 1 jokes ::>ad-bag-ban­inear Words. )stick 's num­Ln the April Blancha rd 's t, appeared same maga­through six­th is grid. ave incl uded sms and Ab­as an abbre­ble Question­nd Quantile­y internal-Q 25 palindrome? Mark Isaak of Palo Alto, California has added 34 more long-E sounds to "The Ultimate Homonym Group", and Dmitri Borgmann suggested three that Isaak overlooked: A- do-sa-do (DOEseeDOE) lDHE ceilidhe (KAYlee) -A- dos-a-dos I ER loup-cervier (LOOsee VEE) -A- dos-a.-dos lLH Anouilh (aNUUee) ~ Beroe (RERuwee) lLLE jeune fille (zhun FEE) E urde (URdee) IS- gris-gris (GREEgree) EE urdee IT' Dulong and Petit's law (-puTEEZ-) EG impregn IZ Agassiz trawl EGH Ra legh j fjord ER catercorner (KADee-) LLl Gallinazo (GAAeeNAAsoe) ER- cater-corner LLI' Bernoulli's theorem (berNUUeez-) ET chalet (SHA lee) 0 geod uck (GUUeeduk) EU grand jeu (gran ZHEE) OIX chamoix EZ rendezvous RTHEA northeast (norEEST) '1 l' istesso tempo THEA northeast.:1 Isma'ili (izmaaEElee) UEY plaguey1 calque (kaaEEK) UILL guillotine 1 calesin (KALuSEEN) YIE brulyie (BRUULee) IAE mediaeval d,l (DEE-ell IDH ceiltdh (KAYlee) For good measure, Isaak appended four more sounds produced by X: TSH paixtle, KH xat, S ixtle, and W Latinxua (LATnwaa). He concedes "The last one is lffy. One could say that the X is silent and the U makes the W sound." The Word Wurcher writes " .. one can take any foreign word whose orthography represents a more or less English-like sound .. and say 'Look, Ma, ain't this a weird way of writing this sound? '" George H. Roberts professes bafflement by Louis Phillips' "Apple­Sauce Chronicles" movie title "Hair, starring james Beard and Fuzzy St. Knight". He thinks that the latter character is an inadvertent meld of Fuzzy Knight and Al "Fuzzy" St. john. Mary Hazard follows up the November Colloquy with some more real-life ambiguous headlines from magazines and Rochester papers: POPULATION STUDIES AGE PREMATURELY are these studies of the population, which are gomg out-of-date too soon, or is an unspecified group carrying out gerentological studies before they are supposed to? JAPAN PLANS TO LOOK TO THE STARS FROM HAW AII japanese actresses don't fill the bill? BANKS TO GIVE UP TODAY a new financial crisis [Dennis Banks, Indian leader] MARIJUANA SEIZED IN RUSH haste makes waste? [Rush township] LIGHT TURNOUT EXPECTED TODAY let's conserve energy 26 Kyle Corbin answers the alphabetic word-chain query in the Novem­ber Word Ways with the 39-1etter ABC defog hijack elm no PDQ rest up TV waxy zoo, an improvement of three. However, purists may object to words such as ABC that are merely concatenations of letters pronounced in sequence, even though listed as nouns in Webster's Third. His Official Scrabble Players Dictionary lists, at 39 letters apiece, are less controversial: a by, cod, ef, gh i, jack, limn ,opaquer, stun, vow, ox, oyez lazy, ox, wave, uts,or, quip ,on, milk ,j ig, hog, fed, cobra Two more oxymoron s from Ph il ip Cohen: actual potential and solo concert ("so common nowadays as to hardly raise an ey~­brow"). Louis Phillips asks "Is spendthrift a one-word example?" Dmitri Borgmann augments Ed Wolpow I s "Flora Americana" with 12 plants possessing genus names apparently related to American sta tes: Coloradoa and Utah ia (family Cactaceae); Georgia, Montafioa and Wyomingia (family Compositae); Hawaiiara (family Orchidaceae); Loulseania (family Rosaceae); Mainea (family Trigoniaceae); Mich­iea (family Epacridaceae); Nebra (family Nyctaginaceae); Vermontea (family Flacourtiaceae); and Washingtonia (family Umbelliferae). These are all found in A Dictionary of the Flowering Plants and Ferns (Cambridge University Press; 1966), by J.C. Willis, 7th edition revised by H.K. Airy Shaw. On Henry Burger's Wordtree, The Word Wurcher comments that he thought this sort of stuff went out with Dalgarno's Ars Sig­norum in 1661. 1n "I nftn i te-Tile Scra b b Ie" in the November issue, the word BENZ­DIOXDIAZINE was misspelled. 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