Logology
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Logology is the study of recreational linguistics, an activity that encompasses a wide variety of word games and wordplay emphasizing letter patterns. The field is in ways analogous to recreational mathematics.
Some topics that are studied in logology include lipograms, acrostics, palindromes, tautonyms, isograms, pangrams, bigrams, trigrams, tetragrams, transdeletion pyramids, pangrammatic windows etc.
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[edit] Etymology
The term "logology" was in the past used to refer to the science of word studies[1] but was adopted by Dmitri Borgmann to refer to recreational linguistics.[2]
[edit] Logologists
[edit] Bibliography
- Borgmann, Dmitri (1965). Language on vacation: An olio of orthographical oddities. Scribner. pp. 318.
- Eckler, Ross (1997). Making the Alphabet Dance: Recreational Wordplay. St Martins Press. pp. 277. ISBN 0312155808.
[edit] Works cited
- ^ "Logology n. 2". Oxford English Dictionary Online. Oxford University Press.
- ^ Farrell, Jeremiah. "Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics". http://wordways.com/. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
[edit] See also
- Eunoia (book)
- Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics
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