|
|
Article: WORD GAMES CAN OFFER PLENTY OF FUN FOR LOVERS OF LANGUAGE.(News/National/International)
- Article from:
- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 7, 1998
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 Rocky Mountain News. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of Dialog LLC by Gale Group. 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)
|
Byline: James Kilpatrick Universal Press Syndicate
Several years ago a word lover in Boynton Beach, Fla., Manuel A. Gutierrez, sent me a provocative letter. He asked if I knew a 10-letter word that could be written with only the top row of letters on a standard keyboard. I am a flop in the anagram game, but at last I got it: TYPEWRITER. Hooray for me!
A couple of weeks ago, the mail brought galleys of The Word Circus, by Richard Lederer, a charming compendium of word games. Browsing through its pages, I came across an entry that rang a bell:
``When we seek to find the longest word that can be typed on a single horizontal row of a standard ...