Who would ever have guessed? It turns out that an unparalleled word in generating anagrams, i.e. letter scrambles, is P-A-L-I-N-D-R-O-M-E-S. We have taken advantage of that property to create this unique series of wordplay maps of imaginary American (and Canadian) locales, each one completed by its official two-letter state (or provincial) abbreviation.
A blogsite offering entertaining oddities since January 2020 at the rate of 30x/month. There are now over seventeen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- poetic (including song-lyrics), photographic, and computer-simulated -- are drawn from daily life as well as from poems and wordplay grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original (as are the song-lyrics), although portions evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
October 26, 2021
OCT 26, wordplay maps: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #11 and #12
October 25, 2021
OCT 25, Toronto ravines: Todmorden Mills
October 24, 2021
OCT 24, binomial phrases: "a hug and a kiss"
October 23, 2021
OCT 23, gruesome verse: two horrific quandaries for Hallowe'en
Hallowe'en is creeping up on us!
Check out the whole collection called "Gruesome Verse" on our blog "Edifying Nonsense" HERE.
October 22, 2021
October 21, 2021
OCT 21, Toronto ravines: Moore Park (Mud Creek) Ravine, photocollages #1-#2
October 20, 2021
OCT 20, singable satire: Hoagy Carmichael sings "STAR-NOSED MOLE"
PARODY-LYRICS
Star-nosed mole – I fail to grasp your charms -
October 19, 2021
OCT 19, Carolina lowcountry: wildlife revisited #1
October 18, 2021
OCT 18, humorists' scurrilous talk: 'the cock'
October 17, 2021
OCT 17, palinku (poetic novelty): identity
In this post, we continue with a novel form of poetic wordplay. To help the reader discern the origin of the lyrics, each palindrome (generally occupying one of the three lines of the poem) has been color-coded.
You can view all our "palinku" verses if you proceed with a single click to our more encyclopedic blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE. (Or if you prefer, you can stay on this particular blogsite and look for the offerings for the 17th day of each month -- there are now more than 60 of these.)
October 16, 2021
OCT 16, wordplay maps: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #9 and #10
LINKS to other nonsense in this series:
October 15, 2021
OCT 15, neologism (personal): POTUSA (abuelita latina)
October 14, 2021
OCT 14, English literature survey course: "The Raven" (Poe's poem)
October 13, 2021
OCT 13, mammalian wildlife: batty idioms
Authors' Note: BATS, the flying mammals, are found in many idioms, which mostly give them unfavorable press, including:
October 12, 2021
OCT 12, portraits of couples: loons
October 11, 2021
OCT 11, garden intruders: gnome adventures
Authors' Note: The propensity of garden gnomes to travel, often against their will, is explained here. The author does not condone the trespassing, theft or kidnapping inherent in the services proposed by the narrator to expunge egregious esthetics from one's neighborhood.
October 10, 2021
OCT 10, a brief saga (exemplary exemplification): ablauts and verb past-tenses
Authors' Note: Ablaut (AHB-lowt) is a linguistic term, derived from German, for a vowel transition resulting in a change in word meaning. Such changes are the basis of the simple past tense and the past participle in a substantial proportion of irregular English verbs, as exemplified in the second and third stanzas.
To review the blogpost displaying our entire collection of verses dealing with "Exemplary Exemplification", click HERE.
October 9, 2021
OCT 9, bottom line of medical humor: borborygmi
October 8, 2021
OCT 8, variant Nantucket limerick: moeurs of Nantucket
October 7, 2021
OCT 7, waterfowl: hooded merganser
October 6, 2021
OCT 6, death and the afterlife: [sic] to death
October 5, 2021
OCT 5, insects: computer 'bugs'
October 4, 2021
OCT 4, numbers: quartets, foursomes (4)
October 3, 2021
OCT 3, oncologic verses: benign tumors, a guidebook
October 2, 2021
OCT 2, wordplay maps: Scramble-towns of eastern Canada, #7 and #8
LINKS to other nonsense in this series: