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{{Short description|Magazine on recreational linguistics, logology and word play}}
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{{Infobox magazine
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Word Ways
| image_file = Word Ways Vol. 46 № 4 (November 2013).svg
| image_file = Word Ways Vol. 46 № 4 (November 2013).svg
| image_size = 180px
| image_size = 180px
| image_caption = Cover of the November 2013 issue
| image_caption = Cover of the November 2013 issue
| category = [[Recreational linguistics]]
| category = [[Recreational linguistics]]
| abbreviation = Word Ways
| editor = Jeremiah Farrell
| editor = Jeremiah Farrell
| publisher = [[Greenwood Publishing Group|Greenwood Periodicals]] (1968–1969)<br />
| publisher = {{ubl|[[Greenwood Publishing Group|Greenwood Periodicals]] (1968–1969)|[[A. Ross Eckler Jr.]] (1970–2006)|[[Jeremiah Farrell]] (2007–)}}
[[A. Ross Eckler]] (1970–2006)<br />
[[Jeremiah Farrell]] (2007–)
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| country =
| firstdate = 1968
| firstdate = 1968
| frequency = Quarterly
| frequency = Quarterly
| website = http://wordways.com/
| website = {{URL|http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/}}
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| country = USA
| based = [[Indianapolis, Indiana]]
| issn = 0043-7980
| issn = 0043-7980
| LCCN = sf77000251
| LCCN = <!-- sf77000251 -->
| OCLC = 1604435
| OCLC = 1604435
}}
}}
'''''Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics''''' is a quarterly [[magazine]] on [[recreational linguistics]] and [[logology]]. It was established by [[Dmitri Borgmann]] in 1968 at the behest of [[Martin Gardner]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Eckler |first1=A. Ross |year=2010 |title=Look back! |journal=Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=167–168 |url=http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol43/iss3/6/}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Eckler |first1=A. Ross |year=2010 |title=Word Ways: Making the alphabet dance (part one) |journal=Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=219–240 |url=http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol46/iss3/20}}</ref> [[A. Ross Eckler, Jr.]] was [[Editor-in-chief|editor]] until 2006 when he was succeeded by [[Jeremiah Farrell]] ([[Butler University]]).
'''''Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics''''' is a quarterly [[magazine]] on [[recreational linguistics]], [[logology (linguistics)|logology]] and [[word play]]. It was established by [[Dmitri Borgmann]] in 1968 at the behest of [[Martin Gardner]].<ref name="lookback"/><ref name="dance1"/><ref name="evans"/><ref name="johnson"/> [[Howard Bergerson]] took over as [[editor-in-chief]] for 1969, but stepped down when [[Greenwood Periodicals]] dropped the publication.<ref name="lookback"/><ref name="evans"/><ref name="winkel"/> [[A. Ross Eckler Jr.]], a statistician at [[Bell Labs]], became editor until 2006,<ref name="evans"/><ref name="winkel"/> when he was succeeded by [[Jeremiah Farrell]] ([[Butler University]]).<ref name="campbell"/>


''Word Ways'' was the first periodical devoted exclusively to word play, and has become the foremost publication in that field.<ref name="evans"/><ref name="colossal"/> Lying "on the midpoint of a spectrum from popular magazine to scholarly journal",<ref name="winkel"/> it publishes articles on various linguistic oddities and creative use of language. This includes research into and demonstrations of [[anagram]]s, [[pangram]]s, [[lipogram]]s, [[reduplication|tautonym]]s, [[univocalic]]s, [[word ladder]]s, [[palindrome]]s<ref name="zuckermann"/> and unusually [[longest words|long words]],<ref name="johnson"/><ref name="winkel"/><ref name="espy4"/><ref name="gardner"/><ref name="lederer"/> as well as book reviews, literature surveys, investigations into questionable logological claims, puzzles and quizzes, [[mnemonics]]<ref name="zuckermann1"/> and a small measure of linguistically oriented fiction.<ref name="winkel"/><ref name="abrahams"/>
== Contributors ==

The following notable people have made repeated contributions to the journal.<ref name="index">{{cite web |url=http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/ |title=''Word Ways'' author index |accessdate=23 February 2014}}</ref>{{OR|date=February 2014}}
[[Willard R. Espy]] discovered ''Word Ways'' in 1972, and eventually used material from several dozen articles in his ''Almanac of Words at Play'' [[anthologies]].<ref name="espy4"/><ref name="espy1"/><ref name="espy2" /><ref name="espy3"/> The first of these included complete subscription details for ''Word Ways'', which generated so many inquiries that for decades the publishers were reluctant to change their address.<ref name="espy"/>
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{{columns-list|colwidth=30em|

* [[Leonard R. N. Ashley]]
In the November 2020 issue, editor Jeremiah Farrell announced that the publication of ''Word Ways'' would be suspended, but will hopefully resume in the future.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Farrell |first1=Jeremiah |title=More Word Ways? |journal=Word Ways |date=November 2020 |volume=53 |issue=3 |page=4 |url=https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5950&context=wordways |access-date=19 September 2020}}</ref>
* [[Dmitri Borgmann]]

* [[Paul Dickson]]
== Current editorial board ==
* [[A. Ross Eckler, Jr.]]
* Editor: Jeremiah Farrell, Butler University
* [[Willard R. Espy]]
* Lacey Echols, Butler University
* [[Jeremiah Farrell]]
* Kirstin L. Ellsworth, South Pasadena, California
* [[Darryl Francis]]
* Barbara Howes, Butler University
* [[Martin Gardner]]
* Katie Mohr, Wiley Publishing Company
* [[Solomon W. Golomb]]
* David D. Wright, Hangzhou, China
* [[Mike Keith (mathematician)|Mike Keith]]
* Electronic Journal Publishing Assistant: Laina Ridenour, Butler University
* [[Donald Knuth]]
* [[Richard Lederer]]
* [[Dave Morice]]
* [[Jeremy Morse]]
* [[Simon P. Norton]]
* [[William Sunners]]
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}}


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Word game]]
* [[Dave Morice]], former editor
* [[Linguistics]]


== References ==
== References ==
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{{Reflist|colwidth=30em|refs=
<references />
<ref name="winkel">{{cite journal|last1=Winkel |first1=Brian J. |year=1977 |title=Word Ways, a journal worth going your way |journal=[[Cryptologia]] |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=232–234 |doi=10.1080/0161-117791832968}}</ref>
<ref name="zuckermann">{{cite journal |last1=Zuckermann |author-link=Ghil'ad Zuckermann |first1=Ghil'ad |year=1998 |title=Lear's In Israel?|journal=Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=154–155 |url=https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol31/iss2/18/}}</ref>
<ref name="espy">{{cite journal |last1=Eckler |first1=A. Ross |year=1999 |title=Willard R. Espy, 1910–1999 |journal=Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=83–84 |url=http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol32/iss2/2/}}</ref>
<ref name="zuckermann1">{{cite journal |last1=Zuckermann |author-link=Ghil'ad Zuckermann |first1=Ghil'ad |year=2011 |title=Mnemonics in Second Language Acquisition |journal=Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=302–309 |url=https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol44/iss4/21}}</ref>
<ref name="lookback">{{cite journal |last1=Eckler |first1=A. Ross |year=2010 |title=Look back! |journal=Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=167–168 |url=http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol43/iss3/6/}}</ref>
<ref name="dance1">{{cite journal |last1=Eckler |first1=A. Ross |year=2010 |title=Word Ways: Making the alphabet dance (part one) |journal=Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=219–240 |url=http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol46/iss3/20}}</ref>
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<ref name="evans">{{cite book |last=Evans |first=Rod L. |date=2012 |title=Tyrannosaurus Lex: The Marvelous Book of Palindromes, Anagrams, and Other Delightful and Outrageous Wordplay |location=London |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-1-101-58863-5 }}</ref>
<ref name="gardner">{{cite book |last=Gardner |first=Martin |date=1995 |title=New Mathematical Diversions |url=https://archive.org/details/newmathematicald0000gard|url-access=registration |publisher=Mathematical Association of America |page=[https://archive.org/details/newmathematicald0000gard/page/248 248] }}</ref>
<ref name="colossal">{{cite book |last1=Gardner |first1=Martin |last2=Jennings |first2=Ken |author2-link=Ken Jennings |date=2010 |title=Colossal Book of Wordplay |publisher=Puzzlewright |isbn=978-1402765032 }}</ref>
<ref name="campbell">{{cite book |last=Campbell |first=T. |date=2013 |title=On Crosswords: Thoughts, Studies, Facts and Snark About a 100-Year-Old Pastime |publisher=Koehler Books |page=117 |isbn=978-1938467462 }}</ref>
<ref name="lederer">{{cite book |last=Lederer |first=Richard |date=1998 |title=The Word Circus |url=https://archive.org/details/wordcircusletter00lede |publisher=Merriam-Webster |isbn=978-0877793540 }}</ref>
<ref name="espy1">{{cite book |last=Espy |first=Willard R. |date=1975 |title=An Almanac of Words at Play |url=https://archive.org/details/almanachofwordsa0000unse |publisher=Clarkson Potter |isbn=978-0-517-52463-3 |url-access=registration }}</ref>
<ref name="espy2">{{cite book |last=Espy |first=Willard R. |date=1981 |title=Another Almanac of Words at Play |publisher=Clarkson Potter |isbn=978-0-233-97288-6 }}</ref>
<ref name="espy3">{{cite book |last=Espy |first=Willard R. |date=1982 |title=A Children's Almanac of Words at Play |publisher=Clarkson Potter |isbn=978-0-340-34852-9}}</ref>
<ref name="espy4">{{cite book |last=Espy |first=Willard R. |date=1999 |title=The Best of an Almanac of Words at Play |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780877791454 |publisher=Merriam-Webster |isbn=978-0-87779-145-4 }}</ref>
<ref name="abrahams">{{cite news |author-link=Marc Abrahams |author=Marc Abrahams |title=Wordplay proves a fruitful area for research |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/dec/17/higher-education-research-wordplay |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=December 17, 2012 |access-date=October 22, 2014 }}</ref>
<ref name="johnson">{{cite encyclopedia
|last1=Johnson
|first1=Dale D.
|last2=von Hoff Johnson
|first2=Bonnie
|last3=Schlichting
|first3=Kathleen
|editor1-last=Baumann
|editor1-first=James F.
|editor2-last=Kame'enui
|editor2-first=Edward J.
|encyclopedia=Vocabulary Instruction: Research to Practice
|title=Logology: Word and language play
|year=2004
|publisher=Guildford Press
|isbn=978-1-57230-933-3
|pages=180
}}</ref>
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}}


== External links ==
==External links==
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* [http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/ Official website, including free online back issues and abstracts of recent issues]
* {{Official website|http://wordways.com/}}
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* [http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/ Free online back issues and abstracts of recent issues]


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Latest revision as of 20:20, 8 October 2024

Word Ways
Cover of the November 2013 issue
EditorJeremiah Farrell
CategoriesRecreational linguistics
FrequencyQuarterly
Publisher
First issue1968
CountryUSA
Based inIndianapolis, Indiana
Websitedigitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/
ISSN0043-7980
OCLC1604435

Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics is a quarterly magazine on recreational linguistics, logology and word play. It was established by Dmitri Borgmann in 1968 at the behest of Martin Gardner.[1][2][3][4] Howard Bergerson took over as editor-in-chief for 1969, but stepped down when Greenwood Periodicals dropped the publication.[1][3][5] A. Ross Eckler Jr., a statistician at Bell Labs, became editor until 2006,[3][5] when he was succeeded by Jeremiah Farrell (Butler University).[6]

Word Ways was the first periodical devoted exclusively to word play, and has become the foremost publication in that field.[3][7] Lying "on the midpoint of a spectrum from popular magazine to scholarly journal",[5] it publishes articles on various linguistic oddities and creative use of language. This includes research into and demonstrations of anagrams, pangrams, lipograms, tautonyms, univocalics, word ladders, palindromes[8] and unusually long words,[4][5][9][10][11] as well as book reviews, literature surveys, investigations into questionable logological claims, puzzles and quizzes, mnemonics[12] and a small measure of linguistically oriented fiction.[5][13]

Willard R. Espy discovered Word Ways in 1972, and eventually used material from several dozen articles in his Almanac of Words at Play anthologies.[9][14][15][16] The first of these included complete subscription details for Word Ways, which generated so many inquiries that for decades the publishers were reluctant to change their address.[17]

In the November 2020 issue, editor Jeremiah Farrell announced that the publication of Word Ways would be suspended, but will hopefully resume in the future.[18]

Current editorial board

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  • Editor: Jeremiah Farrell, Butler University
  • Lacey Echols, Butler University
  • Kirstin L. Ellsworth, South Pasadena, California
  • Barbara Howes, Butler University
  • Katie Mohr, Wiley Publishing Company
  • David D. Wright, Hangzhou, China
  • Electronic Journal Publishing Assistant: Laina Ridenour, Butler University

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Eckler, A. Ross (2010). "Look back!". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 43 (3): 167–168.
  2. ^ Eckler, A. Ross (2010). "Word Ways: Making the alphabet dance (part one)". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 46 (3): 219–240.
  3. ^ a b c d 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.
  4. ^ a b Johnson, Dale D.; von Hoff Johnson, Bonnie; Schlichting, Kathleen (2004). "Logology: Word and language play". In Baumann, James F.; Kame'enui, Edward J. (eds.). Vocabulary Instruction: Research to Practice. Guildford Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-1-57230-933-3.
  5. ^ a b c d e Winkel, Brian J. (1977). "Word Ways, a journal worth going your way". Cryptologia. 1 (3): 232–234. doi:10.1080/0161-117791832968.
  6. ^ Campbell, T. (2013). On Crosswords: Thoughts, Studies, Facts and Snark About a 100-Year-Old Pastime. Koehler Books. p. 117. ISBN 978-1938467462.
  7. ^ Gardner, Martin; Jennings, Ken (2010). Colossal Book of Wordplay. Puzzlewright. ISBN 978-1402765032.
  8. ^ Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (1998). "Lear's In Israel?". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 31 (2): 154–155.
  9. ^ a b Espy, Willard R. (1999). The Best of an Almanac of Words at Play. Merriam-Webster. ISBN 978-0-87779-145-4.
  10. ^ Gardner, Martin (1995). New Mathematical Diversions. Mathematical Association of America. p. 248.
  11. ^ Lederer, Richard (1998). The Word Circus. Merriam-Webster. ISBN 978-0877793540.
  12. ^ Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2011). "Mnemonics in Second Language Acquisition". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 44 (4): 302–309.
  13. ^ Marc Abrahams (December 17, 2012). "Wordplay proves a fruitful area for research". The Guardian. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
  14. ^ Espy, Willard R. (1975). An Almanac of Words at Play. Clarkson Potter. ISBN 978-0-517-52463-3.
  15. ^ Espy, Willard R. (1981). Another Almanac of Words at Play. Clarkson Potter. ISBN 978-0-233-97288-6.
  16. ^ Espy, Willard R. (1982). A Children's Almanac of Words at Play. Clarkson Potter. ISBN 978-0-340-34852-9.
  17. ^ Eckler, A. Ross (1999). "Willard R. Espy, 1910–1999". Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. 32 (2): 83–84.
  18. ^ Farrell, Jeremiah (November 2020). "More Word Ways?". Word Ways. 53 (3): 4. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
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