Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics

Word Ways
The Journal of Recreational Linguistics · published quarterly since 1968

In This Issue

Eighty pages of logology, four times a year

W O R D S KNIGHT MOVES
Words & Numbers

Knight-Graphable Words

Which words can be spelled out on a lettered board by a chess knight, one leap at a time — and how big can the board get before the answer becomes boring?

TM Tristan Miller & Mike Keith
LEVEL FIVE LETTERS, TWO DIRECTIONS
Palindromes

Alphabetic Insertions in Five-Letter Palindromes

Take a five-letter palindrome, push a letter into the middle, and see what survives. A patient survey of which insertions leave you with a word.

JG Jeff Grant
Kickshaws THE MISCELLANY COLUMN A KICKSHAW: A TRIFLE, A DELICACY, SOMETHING FANCY AND SMALL
Column

Kickshaws

The magazine's standing miscellany: oddments, readers' finds and small experiments too good to leave out and too short to run alone.

DM David Morice
The Word For What We Do
logology
/ləˈɡɒlədʒi/ · noun · revived 1965

An old word that Dmitri Borgmann pulled back into service for the recreational study of language. He founded this magazine in 1968 at the suggestion of Martin Gardner, and it has been the field's home publication ever since.

Also in Volume 48

insider Special Kinds of Words Looking For The Longest Insider Word Words hiding whole other words inside themselves, and the hunt for the longest specimen anyone can defend. Jim Puder Kr · Ne Words & Numbers King's Moves in the Periodic Table Treating the elements as a chessboard and walking a king across it, one adjacent symbol at a time. Darryl Francis murmur Special Kinds of Words Functional Tautonyms A tautonym repeats itself exactly — and a surprising number of them still do useful work in a sentence. Susan Thorpe A–Z 9×9 Puzzles A Pangrammatic Variant of Sudoku Swap the digits for letters and require every completed line to be a pangram of its own small alphabet. Christopher McManus sic Miscellany The Year in Bloopers The annual harvest of misprints, malapropisms and headlines that got away from their sub-editors. Don Hauptman