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Index
of Earlier Issues
Vol.
1 Issue 1 November 1991
Page 1 Foreword. 3 Latest
WordsWorth (Ver. 9). 4 Menu. 5 Ancillary Utilities. 6 Order 10 Wordsquares.
Vol.
1 Issue 2 May 1992
Page 1 Foreword. 3 Latest
WordsWorth (Ver. 10) 4 Other Activities. 5 Progress Report on the Order10
Wordsquares. 7 Tensquare
Program Details.
Vol.
1 Issue 3 August. 1994
Page 1 Introduction and
Editorial. 2 Tales of a Manx Cat & Viking. Spoonergrams. 3 Word Building.
4 Lay Your
Cards Right. 5 May I Have
a Word?. 9 Raising the Temperature. 10 Letter Frequencies in 10-Letter
Words.
11 Comcal’s Compact Cornish
Calendar. 12 American English. 13 Epilogue.
Vol.
1 Issue 4 Nov. 1994
Page 1 Editorial. WordsWorth
Notes. 2 Letters to the Editor. 3 Pyramid Plunder. 4 Can You Recall the
Day?
5 What is a Pangram? 6 Gematria.
8 Stem to Stern. 9 Cornish Century Calendar 1900 to 2000. 11 Letter
Frequencies. 13 Is this
General Knowledge.
Vol.
1 Issue 5 Feb. 1995
Page 1 Editorial. WordsWorth
Notes. 2 Letters to the Editor. 3 Easter Sunday. 5 Gathering of Clans.
6 Alphabetical Assemblies.
7 Sri Lankan Gift. 8 The Coining of Words. 10 Crakdown / Totter. 11 The
Language
Simulation. 12 Some Question
of Precedence. 13 64 Sorts. .
Vol.
1 Issue 6 May 1995
Page 1 Editorial. WordsWorth
Notes. 2 Letters to the Editor. 3 Haplograms. 5 Isomorphic Codings. 7 No
Looking
Back? 8 Woolly Bookkeeper.
9 Table to Find Date of Easter. 10 ITEMITEMITIME. 11 Snippets. 12 Wordsquare
Patterns. IBC Answers.
Vol.
1 Issue 7 Aug. 1995
Page 1 Editorial / Letters
to the Editor. 2 There’s Nowt So Queer as Folk. 3 Slough Doughn or Houghry
Ough.
4 Eddie’s Whirls. -graph
v -gram. Counting Sheep. 5 Numbers of Cornishmen. 6 Pangrammish. 7 Billy
Sugger’s
High Rabbit. 8 The Straight
Tensquare. 10 Screen Dumps of Tensquare Creation. 12 Snippets. 13 Answers
and
Stop Press. IBC National
Lottery Week Numbers.
Vol.
1 Issue 8 Nov. 1995
Page 1 Editorial / Letters
to the Editor. 2 Hammering Outrages Fans. 3 Hexadecipal. 4 Comparing Number
Bases.
6 The Spoor of a Lunarist.
9 Scrabble. 12 Nations of the World. 13 Answers & Prime Crossword.
IBC Snippets
and Stop Press.
Vol.
1 Issue 9 Feb. 1996
Page 1 Editorial / Letters
to the Editor. 2 Comcal’s 25 Centuries Calendar. 3 Provenance of Esophagographers.
4 Unigate Scrabble©
Winner. 6 Packing Them In. 8 Order Please! (Ascii-ically). 9 Coincidences.
10 Knives,
Forks & Spoonerisms.
11 Things They D’Say. 12 Sticks and Stones. 13 A Load of Ideas. IBC Stop
Press.
Vol.
1 Issue 10 May 1996
Page 1 Editorial. Letters
to the Editor. 2 Eddie’s Whirls. Archangel. 3 Words Within Words. WordsWorth’s
Database.
4 Tiling. 9 Sounding Bras(s).
No Longer Shorter. 10 Celtic Britain. 11 Harmony of the Spheres.
12 V*W*L-L*SS. Quo Vadis?
13 Crossed Words / Words Crossed./ Ten into Nine Won’t Go. 14 Miscellaneous
Patterns. IBC Numbers of
Words in WordsWorth Files.
Vol.
1 Issue 11 Aug 1996
Page 1 Editorial / Letters
to the Editor. 2 Straight Down the Square. 3 Longer Sentences. 4 Only When
I Laugh.
5 Word in a Word. 7 Para-Dice.
8 Pi’ide. Colourful Space Filler. 9 Squares on the Quadrilateral. 11 Non-
Pythagorean Scalene Triangles.
14 Answers. IBC Stop Press.
Vol.
1 Issue 12 Nov. 1996
Page 1 Editorial. 2 Letters
to the Editor. 3 Eddies Whirls. Fizz & Wups. 4 Things They D’Say. 5
Aboriginal
Languages. 9 More on Tiling.
10 Snippets. 11 Knight’s Tour . Sticks and Stones Will. 12 Spreadsheet
Wordlistings.
13 Play on Words. 14 Answers.
IBC Season’s Greetings.
Vol.
2 Issue 1 Jan. 1997
Page 1 Editorial / Letters
to the Editor. The curious number: 710 5537 57735 31573 A Historical Note
/ Getting On
Line. 4 Eddie’s Whirls /
Editor’s Note. 5 Progression of Word Squares. 8 Taken to Infinity. 9 Ups
and Downs /
Snippets. 10 Plural Add
S; No More Plural. Pronounced Success. Palindromic Stretch. 11 Anagramatically
Speaking.
12 Shall Kin with Kin Confound?
Re Silent Listener. 13 It’s in the Pipeline. A Spherical / Argument / Inside
Out. 14 Play on Words. No
Comment. IBC Last Name Endgame / Answers.
Vol.
2 Issue 2 Apr. 1997
Page1 Editorial / Letters
to the Editor. 3 Reflecting on Spiegel. 4 Surfing the Internet. 6 Trisection
of An/gl/es.
7 By Straight Edge and Compass
Alone. 8 Typewritertype. 10 The Silent Alphabet. Literalism. 11 Snippets
/
Canning’s Enigma.12 Spherical
Objects.14 Addenda / Answers.IBC Parish Church St Mawgan in Pydar.
Vol.
2 Issue 3 July 1997
Page 1 Editorial / Letters
to the Editor. 2 About Letters. 3 Pascal Words. 4 WordsWorth’s Listings.
5 Press Cuttings.
Crosswords at the Crossroads.
World Wide Web. 7 Words Worth While. 8 Man versus Machine. 10 From
Time to Time / And, etc.
11 Caught in the lingo Net / Free Ads. 12 A Lot of Bulls and Dogs Hit.
13 The Spelling
Checker. Spooner-rhyme /
Spoonericks. 14 Answers / Stop Press. IBC Clueless!
Vol.
2 Issue 4 Oct. 1997
Page 1 Editorial / Letters
to the Editor. 2 Logological Sites on the Internet. 3 Triple Agents? 4
Tailored Crosswords.
5 Clueless Crossword. 6
SubVariant Words. 7 Alphabetic Finish / The Tensquare. 8 Letter Shifting.
9 Vulgate Words. 10 Word
Variants. 12 About Letters (Part 2). 13 Alphabet Avenue / Snippets / Answers.
14 The Y’s Crossword. IBC
Comcal’s Word Buster.
Vol.
2 Issue 5 Jan. 1998
Page 1 Editorial / Letters
to the Editor. 2 Once More Unto the Breach. 3 Quadalphabetics. 7 About
Letters (Part 3).
8 Edwardian Chains. 9 Are
They Plurals? 11 Peninsula Wordsearch. Space for Thought. 12 General Knowledge
Crossword. Snippets. 13
Ex’asperation / Overheard. 14 Answers. 15 TEA (The Electronic Alveary).
16 Stop
Press. IBC White Christmas.
Vol.
2 Issue 6 Apr. 1998
Page 1 Editorial / Letters
to the Editor. 2 Word Lists. 3 Constrained Writing / Name Squares. 4 Animal
Chains.
6 Dictionary List. 7 About
Letters (part 4). 8 Thoughts on the Arrangement of Wordlisting Variants.
9 David’s
Daring Deed. 10 Linked Scrabble
Words. 11 Medically Clueless / A l'eau.. c’est l’heure. 12 Spooneristic
Names /
Word Sentence. 13 Snippets.
14 Answers. IBC Stop Pr./Straight/Animal Chain.
Vol.
2 Issue 7 Jul. 1998
Page 1 Editorial / Letters
to the Editor. 3 Is This a Hyphenated Word? 4 Refractory Rhyming. 6 The
Paths of
Righteousness. 7 About Letters
(Part 5). 8 Poetic Rhyme. 10 Window Lights Code. 11 Never a Crossword?
12 Eddie’s Whirls. Mary
Had a Little Lamb. 13 English As She Is Spoke. Best Fruit Cake Ever. WordsWorth
Download from the Web. 14
Editor’s Reply. Arnold & Sylvester in Trouble. IBC Dictionaries’ Dilemma.
Answers.
Vol.
2 Issue 8 Oct. 1998
Page 1 Editorial. 2 Letters
to the Editor. . 4 Fruit Cocktail. Akin to the Lady of Hitchen. 5 Sound
Pronunciation.
6 Court Disorder. 7 About
Letters (Part 6). 8 Slang. 10 Uncle George. 11 W(h)ither the Dictionary.
12 Eddie’s
Whirls. 13 Lottery F’ ever.
IBC Stop Press / Answers.
Vol.
2 Issue 9 Jan. 1999
Page 1 Editorial / Letters
to the Ed. 2 A Little Silliness / Conundrums / Epiphany / Magic Word Square.
3 Points of
View. 4 A Harmless Drudge.
Things Seen and Perhabsurd. . 5 Number Phrases / Spill Chucker. 6 Canned,
&
Packet Laughter. Scarce
Rhymes / Aspirin’ AOL. 7 Countdown (Fair Play). 9 STU Words. 10 Spoonergrams.
Variants’ Database. 11 Snippets.
12 The Big Crunch. 13 The Devil’s Dictionary. 14 Answers. IBC Book
reviews.
Vol.
2 Issue 10 April 1999
IFC Index of Earlier Issues.
Page 1 Editorial / Letters to the Ed. 2 Another View. Mayor Riyadh Ali
Tullam.
3 Eddie’s Whirls Yorky Yammer.
4 Yorkshire Pud: Master Cutler: Knock ‘is Duck Off. 5 Grandma’s Teacakes:
Yammer. 6 Some People have
been Gormless Since 1746. Court in the Act. 7 Magic WordSquare Program.
11 Snippets. 12 Capital
Banishment. 13 Multiprogrammed Business-woman Subpoeanaing ... IBC 1999
Total
Eclipse of the Sun. Answers.
Vol.
2 Issue 11 July 1999
Page 1 Editorial / Letters
to the Editor. 3 Plain English. As she is spoke. 4 C or K (pronounsed Sukcess.)
5 Chasing the Tensquare.
6 A Bunch of Fives. 8 Anagrams. 9 Single-Letter Homophones. 10 Figuring
It Out.
15 Snippets. Answers.
Vol.
2 Issue 12 Oct. 1999
IFC Index of Earlier Issues.
Page1 Editorial / Letters to the Editor. 2 Eclipse That! Book Review (Pinker).
3 Unsound Pronunciation.
5 Reply from Rex Gooch. 7 The American Language. 8 New Words. 9 Book Review.
The NPL 1st 15 Years. 10
DAWG. 11 Dismissing Tensquare Creation. 12 Logological (De)feats. 13 Snippets.
Worthington. Etc. 14 Microsoft
Snub for Queen’s English. Word Goes out for New Words. 15 A Millennium
Poetry Competition.
Vol.
3 Issue 1 April. 2000
IFC Index of Earlier Issues.
Page1 Editorial / Letters to the Editor. 3 Words Are Numbered (1). 6 Earth,
Water,
Fire and Air. 7 Words Are
Numbered (2). 8 Believe it or Not. 10 Eddie’s Whirls. 11 The Mother Tongue
of 350
Million People. 13 The Odd
One Out. 14 Snippets. Near Miss. Words Are Numbered (3). Alphanumeric Words
15 Spell Checker. Answers.
Stop Press.
Vol.
3 Issue 2 April. 2000
IFC Index of Earlier Issues.
Page1 Editorial / Letters to the Editor. 3 Channel 4’s Countdown and the
OUP. ..4 A
Nones Event. 5 Newordisms.
An Odd Couple of Years. 6 Pangrams. 7 PI in the Sky. 8 Drawing Between
the
Lines. 9 Foundations of
Arithmetic. Language of Time. 11 King’s English. Pidgin Latin. 12 The Per
Missive.
Where They Should Have Lived.
Steps In Time. 13 Vehicle Location Lexicalized. 15 Answers. Snippets. Stop
Press.
Vol.
3 Issue 3 July 2000
IFC Index of Earlier Issues.
Page1 Editorial / Letters to Editor. 2 G's VoiceMail. 3 Haplograms for
PangramSearches.
4 Vehicle Licence Plates
Format Unveiled. Recognised Abbreviations. 5 Newordisms (2) 7 Distribution
of Prime Numbers.
10 Hidden Books of the Bible.
2000 Olympics. 11 Arabic Alphabet. 12 Doodle. Lucky Seven. 13 Spiral
Search Procedure for Tensquare
Words. 14 Snippets. 15 Answers. Stop Press.
Vol.
3 Issue 4 Oct. 2000
IFC Index of Earlier Issues.
Page 1 Editorial/Letters to the Editor. 2 Long Rooking or Song Rounding.
3 The Watchmaker.
Almost a Contribution. Maiden
Voyage. 4 Satin Weave. 5 National Lottery Combinatorials. 6 Computer
- Friend or Foe? 7 Averaged
Out? 8 Hyphen-aged? 9 More On primes. 10 What(ch) Sugar Daddy? 11 Prolific
Trigrams. Catabathysmomanic?
No Way! Emoticons. 12 What's in a Name? 13 Rabbit Out of the Hut. 14 Snippets.
15 Answers. Christmas Greetings.
Vol.
3 Issue 5 Jan. 2001
IFC Index of Earlier Issues.
Page 1 Editorial / Letters to the Editor. 2 J Meets K. CVs from Hell. 3
America. A View
from the Other Side. On
the 12th Recount of Christmas. 4 Making a Short Story Long. 5 X Marks the
Cell. Sheep
Sharing. Word Spiral. Harum-Scarum.
6 The English Language - or How to Confuse Foreigners. 7 Syracuse
Algorithm. 11 Strine Drum.
13 Impossipuzzle. 14 Snippets. 15 Answers. Stop Press.
Vol.
3 Issue 6 April 2001
Page 1 WordsWorth Compendium
2 Introduction. Appetite Whetter. 3 Editorial. Letters to the Editor. 4.
A View
from the Other Side. Marrowsky,
Metathesis, Slip of the Tongue 5 Alphanumeric Phone Numbers. 6 Ware? Can
You
Find More Towns? Lay Your
Cards Right. 7 The Countdown Games. 9 Challenge Problems. 10 All About
Nothing.
11 WordBuster. 13 TEA (
The Electronic Alveary ) 14 Hailstone Numbers. 15 Knot a Polygon. 16 Countdown
Rules
OK? Answers. 17/ 18 / 19
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