Doublets, a word-puzzle, by Lewis Carroll |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
admissible adverb Album April bolter BRAVO BREAD Change cheep CHIN CHOKER clove COINS competitor complete the Chain consonants constitute a Doublet crass creSS CRUST Double Acrostics DOUBLETS ALREADY SET e'en eight marks FISH floe FLOUR following Glossary four links four-letter Doublet given words hale HARE head helve inflections interposed words KETTLE kilt kink least possible number letter LEWIS CARROLL Link unless links would score marks are assigned marks assigned mitre moat neuter noun number of Links number of marks palter peat preceding word PREFACE TO GLOSSARY prep prizes Prove Puzzle QUELL quilt RAVEN rick riddles ROGUE series a Chain Set Links shale shier shin sloe sore SOUP spelt spud strow tail tench v.A. art v.a. cool v.a. fast v.a. fate v.a. sear v.a. suit valve Vanity Fair verb vowels wend words given
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 5 - a Doublet," the interposed words "Links," and the entire series "a Chain," of which I here append an example— HEAD heal teal tell tall TAIL It is, perhaps, needless to state that it is de rigueur that the links should be English words, such as might be used in good society. The easiest "Doublets" are those in which the consonants in one word answer to consonants in the other, and the vowels to vowels; "head" and "tail" constitute a Doublet of this kind.
Seite 4 - But riddles I had none at hand, and therefore set myself to devise some other form of verbal torture which should serve the same purpose. The result of my meditations was a new kind of Puzzle - new at least to me - which, now that it has been fairly tested by a year's experience, and commended by many friends, I offer to you, as a newly-gathered nut, to be cracked by the omnivorous teeth which have already masticated so many of your Double Acrostics.
Seite 4 - The rules of the Puzzle are simple enough. Two words are proposed, of the same length; and the Puzzle consists in linking these together by interposing other words, each of which shall differ from the next word in one letter only. That is to say, one letter may be changed in one of the given words, then one letter in the word so obtained, and so on, till we arrive at the other given word. The letters must not be interchanged among themselves, but each must keep to its own place. As an example, the...
Seite 4 - VANITY, — Just a year ago last Christmas, two young ladies — smarting under that sorest scourge of feminine humanity, the having ' nothing to do ' — besought me to send them 'some riddles.' But riddles I had none at hand, and therefore set myself to devise some other form of verbal torture which should serve the same purpose. The result of my meditations was a new kind of Puzzle...
Seite 4 - Puzzle consists in linking these together by interposing other words, each of which shall differ from the next word in one letter only. That is to say, one letter may be changed in one of the given words, then one letter in the word so obtained, and so on, till we arrive at the other given word. The letters must not be interchanged among themselves, but each must keep to its own place. As an example, the word 'head' may be changed into 'tail' by interposing the words 'heal, teal, tell, tall.
Seite 6 - The object is to complete the Chain with the least possible number of Links. 2. Each word in the Chain must be formed from the preceding word by changing one letter in it, and one only. The substituted letter must occupy the same place, in the word so formed, which the discarded letter occupied in the...
Seite 10 - ... the chaffy spelt, to sile the pory cole, or to swill a spate from a piny ait to the song of the spink. Frils and the mystic Gole are strangers in his sheal : the chanceful Gord hath never brought him gold, nor ever did a cate become his ain. The Doubleteers will no doubt spank him sore, with slick quotations and wild words of yore, will pour upon his head whole steres of steens and poods of spiles points downwards. But he trusts that those alone who habitually use such words as these in good...
Seite 8 - ... competition, so that those who already possess copies will be able to correct them, and will not be obliged to buy a new edition. "Vanity Fair" Office, 13, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, LONDON. DOUBLETS ALREADY SET IN "VANITY FAIR" March 29: Drive PIG into STY. Raise FOUR to FIVE. Make WHEAT into BREAD. April 5: Dip PEN into INK. Touch CHIN with NOSE. Change TEARS into SMILE. April 12: Change WET to DRY. Make HARE into SOUP. PITCH TENTS. April 19: Cover EYE with LID. Prove PITY to be GOOD....
Seite 10 - ... have so strongly shent him, and pre to being soaked in the spate of their wrath, asks for a fiver of minutes for reflection. Choker is in a state of complete pye. He feels that there must be a stent to the admission of spick words. He is quite unable to sweal the chaffy spelt, to sile the pory cole, or to swill a spate from a piny ait to the song of the spink. Frils and the mystic Gole are strangers in his sheal : the chanceful Gord hath never brought him gold, nor ever did a cate become his...
Seite 9 - STEAL COINS. April 26: Make EEL into PIE. Turn POOR into RICH. Prove RAVEN to be MISER. May 3: Change OAT to RYE. Get WOOD from TREE. Prove GRASS to be GREEN. May 10: Evolve MAN from APE. Change CAIN into ABEL. Make FLOUR into BREAD. May 17: Make TEA HOT. Run COMB into HAIR. Prove a ROGUE to be a BEAST. May 24: Change ELM into OAK. Combine ARMY and NAVY. Place BEARS on SHELF. May 31: HOOK FISH. QUELL a BRAVO. Stow FURIES in BARREL. June 7: BUY an ASS. Get COAL from MINE. Pay COSTS in PENCE. June...