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Article: Tourmaline magic.
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- Word Ways
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2008 Jeremiah Farrell. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The pale beige mineral-gem Tourmaline happens to be my birthstone and possesses unexpected magical properties as we will soon see. It is also of great interest logologically since as an isogram it splits nicely into five two-letter words TO-UR-MALI-NE all of which may be found in standard dictionaries. Other splits are possible, making this gem very special.
Further, upon separation of the five vowels and five consonants, we obtain the balanced word set:
TRMLN
O TO OR OM LO NO
U UT UR MU LU NU
A AT RA MA LA AN
I IT RI MI LI IN
E ET RE ME EL NE
These 25 words can be ...