Would you believe that over eight hundred fifty transposable words of eight or more letters can be formed from only these letters:A A B D E E F G I I L N O P R R R S S T T 

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88 TRANSPOSITION YALE CHAPM...A.N Los Angeles, California 'Would you believe that over eight hundred fifty trans­posable words of eight or more letters can be formed from only these letters: A A BD EE FGIIL NO PRR RSST T U Transposition, a word game that begins where Anagrams leaves off, starts with a group of letters which are a breakdown of the spel­ling of the title of a well-known written work, a geographic location, the name of a prominent pe r son or athletic team, a well-known quo­tation or slogan, and so forth. For example, the letter s A A CD E E E IL N NOO 0 P P R T TTY can be rearranged to spell the slogan TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO J and this is called the key. Players are not given the key as such; they are given only the let­ter br eakdown. The theme of Transposition is to form as many transposable words as possible out of the allotted letters. In other words, each word must be rear rangeable into one or more additional words, which taken to­gether are called a word group. In anyone word no letter may be used more often than it appears in the breakdown, and no words or word forms of less than eight letters are acceptable. For example, the word group LATRINE / RELIANT / RETINAL is not allowed because the words are only seven letter s long, and the word group ENROLLED / RONDELL E is not allowe d because there is only one L in the key. Scoring is quite simple. Each group of two eight-letter words is worth 15 points, each group of two nine-letter words is worth 20 points, each group of two ten-letter 'Nords is worth 25 points J and so on. If there are more than two words in a group, each additional word is worth 5 points. Solving the key allows one to double the total word group score. The following legitimate word groups earn the number of points indicated: CONNARITE / COTARNINE / CRENATION / NARCOTINE (30) APORETIC / CAPRIOTE / OPERATIC / PETROICA (25) CARO~ ELEC All \ Third N tionary REAME ing as [ with the RE pref Accl 1.	 Naml 2.	 Vlorc 3.	 Fore our c 4.	 Fore 5.	 Fore TRIE 6.	 Wore the E 7.	 Prop ARG 8.	 Dictl Also ac become of forei Howeve ODe long as use of j be acce allowed with the One simple may USI ample, SCANT O~le that SU( be: M:t: :ifty tr an s-be forIT1cd IT1S leave s )f the spel­c location, :nown quo-AACDE e slogan '{. the	 let­)sable words h word IT1U st taken to­IT1ay be used or word pIe, the ~d because ENROLLED I he key. ~ words is rth 20 ts, and so itional le the total arn the ~ ( 30) 89 CA ROTENOID I COORDINATE I CORONADITE I DECORATION ( 35) ELECTRET I TERCELET (15) All word forIT1s used IT1ust be dictionary provable; Webster '1 s Third New International Dictionary and The AIT1erican College Dic­tionary have been used as Source s. Boldface entrie s such as REMINT, REAMEND, and countless others, do not show the use of such suffix­ing as D, ED, lNG, and so forth. Any such suffixing approved for use with the basic word MINT, AMEND, and so forth IT1ay be used with the RE prefixed word forIT1. Acceptable words include the following: l.	 NaIT1es of peoples and native tribes: ISRAELITE (REALITIES) 2.	 Words that ar e archaic or obsolete: ASTONIE D ( SEDA TION) 3.	 For eign words incorporated into our language and included in our dictionaries: GEHEIMH.AT (HERMITAGE) 4.	 Foreign titles of address: SENORITA (ASTERION) 5.	 Foreign IT10netary units, current or outdated: TRIENTES (INTEREST) 6.	 Words peculiar only to the slang or dialect of any s egIT1ent of the English-speaking peoples: MAUNDERING (UNDREAMING) 7.	 Proper naIT1es, if they are also dictionary listed: ARGENTINA (ARGENTIAN) 8.	 Dictionary-listed tradeIT1arks: FORMALIN ( IN F'ORMAL) Also acceptable would be word shortenings which by usage have now becoIT1e dictionary acceptable words, anglicized spellings of letters of foreign alphabets, and days of the week and IT10nths of the year. However, apostrophized or hyphenated words are not acceptable. One IT1ay use both priIT1ary and variant spellings of any word, so long as both spellings do not appear in the saIT1e word group. The use of ALIGNM:SNT and ALINEMENT in separate word groups would be acceptable, but BANDELIER and BANDILEER would not both be allowed. Dictionary acceptable prefixing and suffixing IT1ay be used with the variant as well as the priIT1ary spelling. One IT1ay use any plural forIT1 other than those forIT1cd by the siIT1ple addition of an ES or S to the basic word; furtherIT1ore, one IT1ay use both the singular and plural forIT1s of any word. For ex­aIT1ple, CISTERNA can be COIT1'bined with CANISTE R I CESTRIAN I SCANTIER, and CISTERNAE can be cOIT1bined with NECTARIES. O:le IT1ay use words ending with an S only if the dictionary shows that such spelling is the only hasic construction. Acceptable would be: M2RIONES I EMERSION. One IT1ay use a verb forIT1 in which a 90 Y ending has been changed to an IES ending. Acceptable would be: STEADIES I EASTSIDE I SIESTAEQ. However, one rnay not use a verb form made simply by the addition of an ES or S to the basic word, such as PERFORMS, INCORPORATES, and so forth. One may use as many forms of any basic word as are makeable out of the allotted letters: EARTHIER I HEARTIER, EARTHIEST I HEARTIEST, EARTHILY I HEARTILY, EARTHINESS I HEARTI­NESS, EARTHING I HEARTING. Reader s ar e invited to try their skill at a sample game: AAAACDEEGIMNNRRTY As a hint, the key is the title of a widely-acclaimed American novel published in the 1920s. This is a relatively small game; the solution set, given in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue, contains 206 wor ds ar ranged in 83 word groups. Specifically, ther e are: 8-1etter words: 34 2-word .\;roups, 14 3-word groups, 54-word groups, 1 5-word group, and 1 7 -word group 9-letter words: 18 2-word groups, 7 3-word groups 10-letter words: 2 2-word groups, 1 3-word group If you have formed an acceptable word group, of whatever number of words, and cannot find it in the category for that numher of words, then it is part of a group containing more words than you have formed with those letters. Check those categories containing more words than you have formed, and having the same number of letters per word. Now, play on, and enjoy a pleasant REACTION to my CREATION. A HOl PALMER Lennox, S A forn which has squares « forms. A 1870 and l' mond, fir William V. the forrn 1: or are plu found in \/I F F I COS SAL T P L U E L E 

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