The ROSS CROWD likes a CROSSWORD. An apposite transposal. Let us begin by discovering what Ross\u27s name offers by way of transposals

Thorpe, Susan

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ROSSWORDS SUSAN THORPE Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England thorpeds@hotrnail.com The ROSS CROWD like a CROSSWORD. An apposite transposal. Let us begin by discovering what Ross's name offers by way of transposaIs. TRANSPOSING 'ROSS' SORS (Irish pronunciation of 'sirs') SORS is also the name of locations in Azerbaijan, France, Germany, South Africa and Turkey. TRANSPOSING 'ECKLER' CERKLE (circle) CLERKE (clerk) LECKER (lecture) RECKLE (chain) KERLEC (Bosnia-Herzegovina) RECLEK (Turkey) TRANSPOSING 'A.R. ECKLER' LACKERER (Iaquerer) TRANSPOSING 'ROSS ECKLER' ROCKER-LESS OR RECKLESS TRANSPOSING WITH ROSS - A MEDLEY SPORTS = P.T. ROSS (PT. stands for Physical Training in the UK) DISROBES = I BED ROSS!!! BOASTERS = BEAT ROSS BROWSES = WEB ROSS You can MEET ROSS in SOMERSET HALF-HALF TRANSPOSALS The letters of the first half of the word are rearranged, as are the letters of the second half of the word: ADVI.SORS TRIS.SORS INVA.SORS PLEA.SORS AVID ROSS STIR ROSS YArN ROSS PALE ROSS ROSS FORMS PART OF A PALINDROMIC PHRASE Ross signs his emails with the remarkably apposite palindrome ROSS ESSAY ASSESSOR. Did you know that there is a website called GROSS.ORG and it's perfectly harmless, jf noisy! ROSS AND A PALINDROMIC SEQUENCE QROSSED, ROSETTES, ROSELLES, ROSANNAS, EURO-ISSUE, lDROS!S (= hidrosis), ~O!lS~S ROSS, IN DISARRAY, IS PRECEDED BY A PALINDROMIC SEQUENCE IRRISORS SESSORS SISSORS ROSS IS FOLLOWED BY A PALINDROMIC SEQUENCE ROSS.fNI, ROSS.ETE (russet) ROSS RETURNS IN A PALINDROMlC SEQUENCE RESSORER (Chambers) SISSOR~ (scissors) ROSS GOES AND RETURNS MIXED WITH A PALINDROMIC SEQUENCE REPOSSfSSOR ROSS GOES AND RETURNS AS A PERSONAL PALINDROME ROSSOR (a surname) ROSSTAKESONTHETAUTONYMS INGROSSING, VAVASSOR, TETROS~S ROSS VlSITS MIAMI Miam i words have the pattern 12?12 Ross in Miami ... £;;ROSSKICK Ross fits in... NEGRONESS ... but he sometimes gets upset... ?HOSPHORS .. and, after Miami, Ross returns home... REPRESSOR REGRESSOR REDRESSOR VALVASSOR ALTERNATING ROSS The altern ate Ietters in these words spell aut'Ross' . REQUS-E,S. and ROQY,S.ES- (both mean 'boasts') TROQS.s.ES- (trouse) ABRQU,S.E.s. (waters) ROSS INTERLOCKS 'Ross' interlocks with another word, the letters of both words being in the correct order. HEE* = eye, he, high ROlSIS (Ross + iO, DEFROSTS (deft + Ross), TETROS~S (tete + Ross) ROTISS£ (Ross + tie) HERO~SS (hee* +Ross) ACROSf;S (ace + Ross) BARONESS (bane + Ross) ROTISSED (Ross + tied) PAROSTOSIS (patois + Ross) ROSS EMBEDDED IN ANOTHER WORD ~ROSSHAJR(chair + Ross), ~ROSSABLE (cable + Ross) .GROSSHILL (chill +Ross) ~ROSSLfNK (Ross in clink!) ~ROSSRlB (crib + Ross) LACROSS~ (Ross in lace!) ACROSSED (aced + Ross) QROSSOCK (Ross in the dock!) WORDS EMBEDDED IN ROSS ROSINS ('in' in Ross!) ROSALES (Ross + ale) ROSERJES (Ross + Erie) ROPINESS (Ross +pine) OVERLAPPING ROSS I-letter overlap BEARMOSS (beam + Ross) 2-letter overlap BARONESS (bane + Ross) 3-letter overlap GROSERTS are gooseberries (Gert + Ross) ROSS AND FRIENDS MATT.ROSS ROSS.ED ROSS.INA ROSS.LYN MO.ROSS (morose) ROSS.ELLIE R, 0 and SWORDS These words are made solely from the letters R, 0 and S. The longest have 8 letters: SOROSORO and ROSOROSO are both tautonymic locations in Fiji. 7 letters: SOSORRO (hod) is made of2 palindromic sequences. OOSSOOR, with 3 consecutive doubled letters, is in India. 6 letters: the tautonym SORSOR (Azerbaijan) the palindromes ROSSOR (a sumame) and SORROS (pI. ofsorro, Sconish 'sorrow') The phrase SO OR SO means 'this or that'. ROSS IN IDS ELEMENT The letters of 'Ross' are to be found in two elemental names: DY§.PROSrUM (no. 66), and PHO~PHORUS (no. 15) which contains the Miami sequence PHOPH. ROSS ENDS UP SMELLING OF ROSES Each word adds a letter and the letters are rearranged at each step down to 'Sporigenous'; then each word loses a letter and the letters are rearranged. 'Ross' reads downwards from the top and upwards from the bottom along the left hand edge. All the words except 'orsos' (Chambers) are in the OED. RO SS ORSO S SOROUS SONORUS ROSINOUS OREISOUNS SEIGNOROUS SPORIGENOUS OSSPRINGES REINGROSS SEIGNORS SENIORS OSIERS ROSES ROSS RETURNS fN A WORD VISSORNE (visor) '= vine + ssor ASSORT'= at + ssor FOSSORES (digger-wasps) = foes + ssor In MISSORI, TIM also returns ROSS AND THE CONSECUTIVE LEITERS QROSS-FED GFED are reverse alphabeticaUy- consecutive letters SPONSOR PON are reverse alphabetically- consecutive letters. 'Ross' is also in reverse. ROSS ECKLER'S ISOMORPHS With 3 repeated letters, ROSS ECKLER has few isomorphs; they are not mutual isomorphs. R 0 SSE C K L E R LEMMATJ CAL S ERR U L A T U S SWEETWORTS 15 ROSS SHIFTS The letters of ROSS are shifted along the alphabet n places to make a shift word: ROSS + 16 = HEll (w2) ROSS + 20 "" LlMM The letters of ROSS are shifted along the alphabet n places and rearranged to make a shiftgram: ROSS + 2 "" tquu QUTU (Afghanistan), UTUQ (Azerbaijan), TUQU (China) ROSS + 3 = urvv VRUV and VURV (both in Bulgaria) ROSS + 8"" zwaa AZA W, WAZA and ZAWA (all in Afghanistan), AWAZ (Iraq) ROSS + 12"" daee ADEE (Ha! - English Dialect Dictionary), EADE (go v.), EDEA (w2) ROSS + 13 "" ebff BEFF (beef) ROSS + 17"" ifjj FJU (Tunisia) ROSS + 22"" nkoo NOOK ROSS + 23 = olpp LOPP, PLOP ECKLER'S SHIFTGRAM ECKLER + 22 = ayghan = YAHGAN - J of the 3 indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego ROSS ON THE EDGE The letters of these words, arranged in geometrical fonns, enable 'Ross' to be read along one edge of the form, sometimes downwards, sometimes upwards. Triangle Rossessing (Gennany) Rhodesians seSSlOneer R R S s S o E I N S S G I H D E A 0 £ N s S N E E E s R o Hexagon Rosslosa ( in Sweden) R 0 S S L 0 S A T riotists R 0 I T S S MISCELLANEOUS ROSS ALBATROSS Sounds OK Ross x 2: Both the words of ROSER'S CROSS (Sussex, England) have the letters of ROSS in their correct order. Finally, something for both Ross and his successor Jeremiah ... The shortest designation I found which contains the letters of WORD WAYS EDITOR was: ,HAVE ONES HEAD SCREWED ON THE RIGHT WAY'! REFERENCES Words can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition unless indicated otherwise. Chambers"" Chambers Dictionary; hod"" Hodge's Handbook ofAmerican Indians; long"" Longman's Dictionary; w2 "" Webster's Second Edition Locations, identified by country, are taken from the United States Board on Geographic Names. 16 

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