Word Ways

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Word Ways

Area of ​​Expertise Recreational linguistics
publishing company Greenwood Periodicals (1968–1969)

A. Ross Eckler (1970–2006)
Jeremiah Farrell (2007–) (United States)

attitude 1968
Frequency of publication quarterly
editor Jeremiah Farrell
Web link wordways.com
ISSN (print) 0043-7980

Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics is a quarterly magazine about word and letter games .

Word Ways was the first magazine to focus solely on word games and is now the premier English language publication in the field. It defines itself "in the middle of a spectrum between the general-interest magazine and academic magazine" and publishes articles on linguistic peculiarities of all kinds. This includes research results and reports on, as well as examples of anagrams , pangrams , leipograms , reduplications , univocalisms , word lines and unusual long words as well as book reviews, literature overviews, logological journalism, puzzles, quizzes and linguistically oriented fiction.

The magazine was founded in 1968 by the US publisher Greenwood Periodicals and at the suggestion of the author Martin Gardner , Dmitri Borgmann was appointed first editor-in-chief. In 1969 Howard Bergerson took over the editorial office, which he resigned after a year. Now more was A. Ross Eckler, Jr. , statisticians at Bell Laboratories , editor and publisher until mathematician Jeremiah Farrell in 2007 took over the leadership of the magazine.

In 1972 best-selling author Willard R. Espy discovered Word Ways and used material from several dozen articles in his anthology series Almanac of Words at Play . The first of these contained subscription instructions for Word Ways , which generated so many inquiries that the editors hesitated for decades to change their address.

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  1. ↑ a b c d Rod L. Evans: Tyrannosaurus Lex: The Marvelous Book of Palindromes, Anagrams, and Other Delightful and Outrageous Wordplay . Penguin Books, London 2012, ISBN 978-1-101-58863-5 .
  2. ^ Martin Gardner, Ken Jennings: Colossal Book of Wordplay . Puzzlewright, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4027-6503-2 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Brian J. Winkel: Word Ways, a journal worth going your way . In: Cryptologia . 1, No. 3, 1977, pp. 232-234. doi : 10.1080 / 0161-117791832968 .
  4. ^ A b Dale D. Johnson, Bonnie von Hoff Johnson, Kathleen Schlichting: Logology: Word and language play . In: James F. Baumann, Edward J. Kame'enui (Eds.): Vocabulary Instruction: Research to Practice . Guildford Press, 2004, ISBN 1-57230-933-4 , pp. 180 .
  5. ^ A b Willard R. Espy: The Best of an Almanac of Words at Play . Merriam-Webster, 1999, ISBN 0-87779-145-7 .
  6. ^ Martin Gardner: New Mathematical Diversions . Mathematical Association of America, 1995, p. 248.
  7. ^ Richard Lederer: The Word Circus . Merriam-Webster, 1998, ISBN 978-0-87779-354-0 .
  8. ↑ Marc Abrahams : Wordplay proves a fruitful area for research . In: The Guardian , December 17, 2012. Retrieved October 22, 2014.  
  9. ↑ a b A. Ross Eckler: Look back! . In: Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics . 43, No. 3, 2010, pp. 167-168.
  10. ^ A. Ross Eckler: Word Ways: Making the alphabet dance (part one) . In: Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics . 46, No. 3, 2010, pp. 219-240.
  11. ^ T. Campbell: On Crosswords: Thoughts, Studies, Facts and Snark About a 100-Year-Old Pastime . Koehler Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-938467-46-2 , p. 117.
  12. ^ Willard R. Espy: An Almanac of Words at Play . Clarkson Potter, 1975, ISBN 0-517-52463-5 .
  13. ^ Willard R. Espy: Another Almanac of Words at Play . Clarkson Potter, 1981, ISBN 0-233-97288-9 .
  14. ^ Willard R. Espy: A Children's Almanac of Words at Play . Clarkson Potter, 1982, ISBN 0-340-34852-6 .
  15. ^ A. Ross Eckler: Willard R. Espy, 1910-1999 . In: Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics . 32, No. 2, 1999, pp. 83-84.

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