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Colloquy. Rex Gooch writes about "Anything Trilinear tri��lin��e��ar?adj.Relating to, having, or bounded by three lines. ": "it isnot sound to argue that Susan Thorpe was unaware of, or did not use[software having isomorph-related functionality] ... The fact is thatresults are the product of data as well as method. For example, in thecase of LeXpert, the database consists of just 220,000 words, less thanany top dictionary, and around 10% of what Chris Cole is aiming for (andthat is a realistic aim). LeXpert is excellent for Scrabble, as thewords are all official Scrabble words and may be restricted to UK or USsubsets. The program itself is capable: for example, given the patternABCDEA, it will only produce words in which the first five letters areall different, whereas some programs may allow B=C, etc. However, Ifound it inscrutable, not appreciating a Help system which explains thata "prionic homonon" is a homonon which is prionic. It needs atutorial or examples--perhaps the website helps. Darryl kindly showed mehow to do the pattern-matching he described ... LeXpert is capablewithin the limits of the types of search and word list it offers, is noteasy to understand, but is free ... Also available on the Internet isTEA (The Electronic Alveary). It immediately offers a search pattern,which is very powerful: [to find isomorphs of AMERICAN] you just type12345617 and Start to do a search, and it produces very many more words,presented by dictionary (e.g. Web2). The search does include otherdoubled letters. It is not free. Crosswords are a specialty ... The Web3CD-ROM CD-ROM:see compact disc. CD-ROMin full compact disc read-only memoryType of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). I find infuriating. The dictionary is itself very clear, thoughit does not identify plants, etc., sufficiently, giving only part of thefull name. It provides searches by all manner of things of greatinterest, such as word origins and parts of speech, and is easy to use.The infuriating part is when you see it finding 40,000 words, tellingyou it will give you 4000 of these, actually presents 2000, and then youfind many of these are duplicated or irrelevant (the match occurring onthe second word of a phrase). I paid for it, and regret it. Darryl notesthat you cannot use a wildcard in looking for anagrams an��a��gram?n.1. A word or phrase formed by reordering the letters of another word or phrase, such as satin to stain.2. anagrams (used with a sing. ... Wordweb isanother program which promises anagrams, pattern searching and`customisable dictionaries'. There is a trial version lacking thesefeatures. It has definitions, and a thesaurus ... There were otherprograms in the past, but as for which I recommend: whatever suits! Whatdo I use? None, though I am sometimes tempted." Jeff Grant writes: "Something that may interest you--I was inthe Auckland University Library recently and happened to see DiccionarioMedieval Espanol by Martin Alonso (1986). What is unusual about thisSpanish lexicon is that Volume 1 is A-C A-C Air Conditioning and Volume 2 is Ch-Z!" Sir Jeremy Morse writes: "I can see a number of words in SusanThorpe's `Symmetrical Letter Patterns' which could be replacedby commoner examples, e.g., COLPECTATIC by CLIMACTERIC climacteric:see menopause. , andQUASIHUMOROUS by MULTITUDINOUS, but I could not make a single addition.In Darryl Francis's "The State Capitals Revisited" heproposed several coinages: for Frankfort `heroin trafficker', forHarrisburg `harbouring rivers', for Honolulu `convolvulus convolvulus(kənvŏl`vyələs): see morning glory. moth', for Indianapolis `dispensational gifts', for JeffersonCity `jailworthy offences', for Oklahoma City "amatory am��a��to��ry?adj.Of, relating to, or expressive of love, especially sexual love: an amatory mood; an amatory embrace.[Latin am locksmith', and for Salt Lake City `ecstatically drunk'. [Someof these can actually be found in OED OEDabbr.Oxford English DictionaryNoun 1. OED - an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principlesO.E.D., Oxford English Dictionary quotations.] William Brandt writes "in coming up with a title for the story[`Gull-day-looks Enter Tree Bars'] several alternatives wereconsidered: Gaul-dilocks (the little girl from France), Gelding-locks(the little girl who liked to train horses), Goal-dilocks, (the littlegirl who liked to play hockey), Guilty-locks (the little girl who stoleour affections), Gull-dilocks (the little girl who liked to watch seabirds), Goldi-lacks (the little girl who was very poor), Goldi-lakes(the little girl who lived by a body of water), Goldi-leeks (the littlegirl who liked vegetables), Goldi-likes (the little girl who was veryfriendly), Goldi-looks (the little girl who liked to stare at people),and Goldilox (the little girl who liked to eat bagels)." In a follow-up letter, Anil added the following to "VowelCascades, Vowel Movements and Di-Odes": "Vowel movements,because of their similarity to ablauts, could also be called "soundoffs" after the etymology of ablauts, "off sounds", andby comparison with the familiar military cadence, "Sound off, one,two, ..." But I doubt any ablauts cover all five vowels. Theclosest I know is the Random House (RH) example `sing sang sungsong." The latter itself alphabetises into a 4-vowel cascadedefinition: sang: Sing-song sung. This in mm, by rhyme, conjures upanother cascade: "Dang Deng! Ding-dong dung!", a ratherunflattering view of the late Chinese leader but a `good' (Group 1)vowel cascade if we allow significant post-RH names. L Frank Baum'scharacter names Tallydab, Tellydeb, Tillydib, Tollydob & Tullydub(see 98-138) are double vowel movements. But this is cheating since theywere specially created to fit that category. Well before it was named,however." Errata er��ra��ta?n.Plural of erratum. : insert `or' between two distinctinterpretations (1), `rest' should be `nest', a synonym ofhide, (15), `kits' should be `kites' (23), no hyphen between`dib' and `deb' (25b), `nattily' should be `nuttily'(28). Richard Lederer has found the ten-letter pyramid word PEPPERTREE(hyphenated hy��phen��at��ed?adj.1. Having a hyphen: a hyphenated adjective.2. Often Offensive Of or relating to naturalized citizens or their descendants or culture. in the OED, two words in Webster's Third). For a listof other such words, see the May 1982 Word Ways. John Kilpatrick constructed the following sentence of words thatcan be used in a card-trick mnemonic (see "Goose ThighsRehashed" in the May 1994 issue): LOVELY VIRGIN STRAYS THOUGHUNDEAD. He writes "It was Wimbledon at the time, possibly 20 yearsago, before great chunks of steel industry in Sheffield had closed, butwhen there was little to do in the office. It took me 20 minutes todream up the above, in a sort of informal competition, but with the wordVOLLEY. On the motorbike on the way home, I realised the anagram anagram[Gr.,=something read backward], rearrangement of the letters of a word or words to make another word or other words. A famous Latin anagram was an answer made out of a question asked by Pilate. ofVOLLEY, making a rather good sentence (last word a little weak but notmuch ! can do about it)." Oops! "Fish" should be omitted in the third palindrome palindrome:see anagram. in"Junk Palindrome Email", and the "Mod rats ..."palindrome in Bruce Young's "Ma, Is A Fool As Aloof As IAm?" article should include "evil" before"stardom". In "A Modified Ten-Square" the Ajnodontiareference should be Anodontia, and ETERNESSE on page 9 is lacking asecond N. In "Jailhouse Businesswoman ..." the first erratum [Latin, Error.] The term used in the Latin formula for the assignment of mistakes made in a case.After reviewing a case, if a judge decides that there was no error, he or she indicates so by replying, "In nollo est erratum at the bottom of the page should have started AUIEO / CARBURETION ... In"The Oz Contradictionary: Part 4" replace wraith with wrath in"Down With Gravity". Darryl Francis writes to say he found a new transposition transposition/trans��po��si��tion/ (trans?po-zish��un)1. displacement of a viscus to the opposite side.2. forNashville: HANSVILLE, a town in Kitsap County, Washington Kitsap County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington, named after Chief Kitsap of the Suquamish tribe. As of 2000, its population is 231,969. Its county seat is at Port Orchard, and its largest city is Bremerton. according tothe Rand McNally Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide (i 967). TheCentury Atlas of the World (1897) shows another Hansville in Minnesota. In Kickshaws Kick´shaws`n. 1. Something fantastical; any trifling, trumpery thing; a toy.Art thou good at these kickshawses!- Shak.2. A fancy dish; a tidbit; a delicacy.Some pigeons, . . . , Dave Morice posed a question from Anil: Did you evernotice that the Roman numeral numeral,symbol denoting anumber. The symbol is a member of a family of marks, such as letters, figures, or words, which alone or in a group represent the members of a numeration system. for 69 can be expressed as LIXX? DarrylFrancis says "not so!" The Roman numeral for 69 can only beLXIX.