Nooooooooooooooooooooooo. . . . Tell me it ain't so! Doonesbury has dwindled down to a hit-or-miss Sunday strip, Luann flounders with an unsteady footing in college, and now Edge City is retiring.
What is Fiorella to do? The comics are the main reason she still subscribes to a newspaper. Well, that and the anagrams.
Dear God--are the anagrams next?
Showing posts with label anagrams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anagrams. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
To Subscribe or Not to Subscribe
Should Fiorella continue subscribing to the newspaper or not? She isn't interested in sports, never reads the entertainment section, and ignores ads. And she could get the comics and her fix of national and international news on Google.
On the other hand, Fio likes reading stuff on paper, and she'd miss out on the screwball vicissitudes of Texas politics. And she'd miss the anagrams too--which are more decipherable than the politics.
On the other hand, Fio likes reading stuff on paper, and she'd miss out on the screwball vicissitudes of Texas politics. And she'd miss the anagrams too--which are more decipherable than the politics.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Anagram Techniques
When Fio first got interested in the newspaper's daily anagram, she would write the letters down, cut them out, and test various random arrangements. Stupid Fiorella--the first thing she looks for now are morphemes like er/re, ing, s and ed/de. She also checks out possible consonant combinations like sh, ch, th, sch, and ght. She's also learned a few tricks along the way, like that doubled letters side by side in an anagram are usually separate when the word is decoded, and vice-versa.
Take DONUH, for instance. Fio knows English words rarely end in h unless it's in combination with c, s, or t. She also knows ou frequently occur together (as do ea, ai, and oi). The answer is HOUND.
RREROT is fairly easy because Fio's also picked up the trick of checking an anagram out by scanning it backwards. TORERR alerts her brain to the obvious--TERROR.
STURHH. Hmmm. Just one vowel, which means just one syllable, and s is joined with t in the initial offering, which mean it should really be attached to one of the hs, which leaves the other h for the s. Dawns the light: THRUSH,
And if all else fails, Fiorella writes the letters down, cuts them out and arranges them randomly.
Take DONUH, for instance. Fio knows English words rarely end in h unless it's in combination with c, s, or t. She also knows ou frequently occur together (as do ea, ai, and oi). The answer is HOUND.
RREROT is fairly easy because Fio's also picked up the trick of checking an anagram out by scanning it backwards. TORERR alerts her brain to the obvious--TERROR.
STURHH. Hmmm. Just one vowel, which means just one syllable, and s is joined with t in the initial offering, which mean it should really be attached to one of the hs, which leaves the other h for the s. Dawns the light: THRUSH,
And if all else fails, Fiorella writes the letters down, cuts them out and arranges them randomly.
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