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| Editor | Jeremiah Farrell |
|---|---|
| Categories | Recreational linguistics |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Publisher | Greenwood Periodicals (1968–1969) A. Ross Eckler (1970–2006) |
| First issue | 1968 |
| Website | wordways.com |
| ISSN | 0043-7980 |
| OCLC | 1604435 |
Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics is a quarterly magazine on recreational linguistics and logology.
The magazine was established by Dmitri Borgmann in 1968 at the behest of Martin Gardner. Howard Bergerson took over as editor-in-chief for 1969, but stepped down when Greenwood Periodicals dropped the publication. A. Ross Eckler, Jr. became editor until 2006 when he was succeeded by Jeremiah Farrell (Butler University).
Word Ways was the first magazine devoted exclusively to wordplay, and has become the foremost publication in that field. It publishes articles on all sorts of linguistic oddities and creative use of language, such as anagrams, pangrams, lipograms, tautonyms, univocalics, word ladders, and unusually long words. Bestselling language author Willard R. Espy discovered Word Ways in 1972, and eventually used material from several dozen articles in his Almanac of Words at Play anthologies.
See also
References
- ^ Eckler, A. Ross (2010). "Look back!". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 43 (3): 167–168.
- Eckler, A. Ross (2010). "Word Ways: Making the alphabet dance (part one)". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 46 (3): 219–240.
- ^ Evans, Rod L. (2012). Tyrannosaurus Lex: The Marvelous Book of Palindromes, Anagrams, and Other Delightful and Outrageous Wordplay. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1-101-58863-5.
- ^ Johnson, Dale D.; von Hoff Johnson, Bonnie; Schlichting, Kathleen (2004). "Logology: Word and language play". In Edward J., Kame'enui (ed.). Vocabulary Instruction: Research to Practice. Guildford Press. p. 180. ISBN 1-57230-933-4.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|trans_title=(help) - Campbell, T. (2013). On Crosswords: Thoughts, Studies, Facts and Snark About a 100-Year-Old Pastime. Koehler Books. p. 117. ISBN 978-1938467462.
- Gardner, Martin; Jennings, Ken (2010). Colossal Book of Wordplay. Puzzlewright. ISBN 978-1402765032.
- ^ Espy, Willard R. (1999). The Best of an Almanac of Words at Play. Merriam-Webster. ISBN 0-87779-145-7.
- Gardner, Martin (1995). New Mathematical Diversions. Mathematical Association of America. p. 248.
- Lederer, Richard (1998). The Word Circus. Merriam-Webster. ISBN 978-0877793540.
- Espy, Willard R. (1975). An Almanac of Words at Play. Clarkson Potter. ISBN 0-517-52463-5.
- Espy, Willard R. (1981). Another Almanac of Words at Play. Clarkson Potter. ISBN 0-233-97288-9.
- Espy, Willard R. (1982). A Children's Almanac of Words at Play. Clarkson Potter. ISBN 0-340-34852-6.