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Article: Silvery sleep.(Elvis Presley word games)
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- Word Ways
- Article date:
- August 1, 2002
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 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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August 2002 is the 25th, or silver, anniversary of the death of rock'n'roll singer Elvis Presley. Elvis died in August 1977, and has been the subject of two previous articles of mine in Word Ways, "Elvis Lives" in February 1993, and "Elvis for Everyone" in May 1993. Prompted by recent trips to Tupelo, Mississippi (his birthplace) and Memphis, Tennessee, I decided to take a new look at the wordplay that could be spun around some of the words, names and song titles in Elvis' life and career. My fundings are presented here twenty-five years after Elvis' death.
First off, the title of this article is simply an anagram of ELVIS PRESLEY. I suspect this has appeared ...