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LANGUAGE ON VACATION by Dmitri A. Borgmann. 318 pages. Scribner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word Salad | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

This resolutely useless information is published in one of the year's most peculiar and fascinating books, an encyclopedia of logology assembled by a stark-raving logomaniac named Dmitri Alfred Borgmann, a Chicago actuary whose name, when its letters are transposed, spells "damn mad boring trifler." Boring he is not. Among his offerings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word Salad | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...TRANSPOSITIONS, says Author Borgmann, are words rearranged into other words, and he gives examples in a rising order of difficulty: harmonicas-maraschino ; microcephaly-pyrochemical; oxhearts-thoraxes. Got the idea? Then go ahead and see how many transpositions can be formed from the word angriest-Borgmann lists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word Salad | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...ANAGRAMS & ANTIGRAMS, says Borgmann, are words or groups of words that can be transposed into words or groups of words that have the same or the opposite meanings. Anagrams: conversation-voices rant on; medical consultations-noted miscalculations; the nudist colony-no untidy clothes; Washington crossing the Delaware-he saw his ragged continentals row. Antigrams: evangelists-evil's agents; the lenten season-none eat less then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word Salad | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...PALINDROMES, as Borgmann presents them, are still more fun. Spelled the same backward as forward, they fall into several categories: palindromic words (Malayalam, evitative, detartrated); palindromic names and trade names (Mary Belle Byram, Yreka Bakery); vertical palindromes that read in reverse when they are turned upside down, either hand-printed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Word Salad | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

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