Word Ways information

*Word Ways*
	Cover of the November 2013 issue
Editor	Jeremiah Farrell
Categories	Recreational linguistics
Frequency	Quarterly
Publisher	Greenwood Periodicals (1968–1969); A. Ross Eckler Jr. (1970–2006); Jeremiah Farrell (2007–);
First issue	1968
Country	USA
Based in	Indianapolis, Indiana
Website	digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/
ISSN	0043-7980
OCLC	1604435

Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics is a quarterly magazine on recreational linguistics, logology and word play. It was established by Dmitri Borgmann in 1968 at the behest of Martin Gardner.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Howard Bergerson took over as editor-in-chief for 1969, but stepped down when Greenwood Periodicals dropped the publication.^[1]^[3]^[5] A. Ross Eckler Jr., a statistician at Bell Labs, became editor until 2006,^[3]^[5] when he was succeeded by Jeremiah Farrell (Butler University).^[6]

Word Ways was the first periodical devoted exclusively to word play, and has become the foremost publication in that field.^[3]^[7] Lying "on the midpoint of a spectrum from popular magazine to scholarly journal",^[5] it publishes articles on various linguistic oddities and creative use of language. This includes research into and demonstrations of anagrams, pangrams, lipograms, tautonyms, univocalics, word ladders, palindromes^[8] and unusually long words,^[4]^[5]^[9]^[10]^[11] as well as book reviews, literature surveys, investigations into questionable logological claims, puzzles and quizzes, mnemonics^[12] and a small measure of linguistically oriented fiction.^[5]^[13]

Willard R. Espy discovered Word Ways in 1972, and eventually used material from several dozen articles in his Almanac of Words at Play anthologies.^[9]^[14]^[15]^[16] The first of these included complete subscription details for Word Ways, which generated so many inquiries that for decades the publishers were reluctant to change their address.^[17]

In the November 2020 issue, editor Jeremiah Farrell announced that the publication of Word Ways would be suspended.^[18]

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^ Farrell, Jeremiah (November 2020). "More Word Ways?". Word Ways. 53 (3): 4. Retrieved 19 September 2020.

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[18] Farrell, Jeremiah (November 2020). "More Word Ways?". Word Ways. 53 (3): 4. Retrieved 19 September 2020.

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