Word: omy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some helpful hints for the Scrabble set (aaa is a hookworm disease of ancient Egypt, and the zzxjoanw is a musical instrument). Unfortunately, he omits acrostics, telestichs, lipogrammata, univocalic verses, Richelieu's equivoque or Swift's "Lacerated Latin" verses, in which Latin words make English statements ("Omi de armis tres,/ Imi na dis tres./ Cantu disco ver/ Meas alo ver?"). But he does include a section on the word square, the prototype of the crossword puzzle, and tops it off with an impressive sentence square composed entirely of five-letter words...