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Articles in August, 2008 issue of Word Ways

• English: best for play with words
  by A. Ross Eckler
• Obamanastics
  by A. Ross Eckler
• Colloquy
• Insiders
  by Jim Puder
• Three Jog Knight
  by Harold Jacobs
• A uni-verse of language, Part 2
• A needed new word?
  by Don Hauptman
• FREEEE fall
• Scrabble tales, scrabble tiles
• Ross's spoonergram
• Stock market conditions
• Interlocking ladders
• A hidden word ladder
• When words don't fail us
• Two recent off-the-cuff puns by Morry Markowitz
• Bait and rebate
• A cinematic coincidence
• Morrie's friend Don Hauptman provides the following postscript…
• Ray, Gene, and the Washington Post word contests
• A new jenning
• For Peter Reading, author of "The Prison Cell and Barrel Mystery"
• Wal-Mart wine
• Rhyming the unrhymeable
• Misheard Beatles tunes
• Filling the alphabetic gaps
• Unique words
• Riding the wild limerick
• Acrostic equations
• Who gives a grunt?
• The elementiad
• Beheading
  by Andy Liu
• Punk whiz 4
  by Anil
• More Baileyisms
  by Arthur I. Schulman
• Pretending
  by Martin Gardner
• Forty-three names
  by Darryl Francis
• Never Make Fun
  by Martin Gardner
• Variation on a theme of Francis
  by Jeremiah Farrell
• Comparative homophonic trios
  by Anil
• Sentence carried out
  by Anil
• Vowel twisters
  by Tomoyuki Tanaka
• Sherlockian wordplay & "SH" puzzle
  by Tomoyuki Tanaka
• Spoonertoons 5: drawing a sign in the land
  by Don Hauptman
• Missing persons
  by Steve Kahan
• ETC
  by David Morice
• Urban renewal
  by Steve Kahan
• Fibonacci words: "Howl, Sex Orgy Poet!"
  by Anil
• Another unidictionary nine-square
  by A. Ross Eckler
• A Mel Stover recollection
  by Bob Friedhoffer
• Digital diversions
  by Susan Thorpe
• Town-and-state name transposals
  by Darryl Francis
• Share Toys
  by Martin Gardner
• Amoebic charades
  by Susan Thorpe
• Answers and solutions
• Word order