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