Information about Logology
Logology is the study of words with an emphasis on letter patterns, often as part of recreational wordplay such as anagrams, palindromes and isograms, rather than on meaning. The name "logology" for this study was popularized, to the extent that it is popular at all, by Dmitri Borgmann, an author of several books on language in the late 1960s. See Borgmann's books for more about logology:
Logology is also the name of a fictional new religion in Greg Bear's novel, Heads.
An isogram (also known as a "nonpattern word") is a logological term for a word or phrase without a repeating letter.
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- Copyright 1965. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons
- Beyond Language (Adventures in Word and Thought) Copyright 1967. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons
- Curious Crosswords (edited and annotated by Borgmann) Copyright 1970. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons
Logology is also the name of a fictional new religion in Greg Bear's novel, Heads.
anagram (Greek anagramma 'letters written anew', passive participle of ana- 'again' + gramma 'letter') is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once; e.
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palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that has the property of reading the same in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted). Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing.
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- Isogram is also another name for a contour line
An isogram (also known as a "nonpattern word") is a logological term for a word or phrase without a repeating letter.
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Dmitri Alfred Borgmann (1927-1985) is an author probably best known for coining the word "Logology" and writing the 1965 logological book, . He also founded in 1968. He was a member of MENSA and was of German-Ukrainian background. He has two sons, Mark and Keith.
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A new religious movement or NRM is a term used to refer to a religious faith, or an ethical, spiritual or philosophical movement of recent origin that isn't part of an established denomination, church, or religious body.
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Gregory Dale Bear
Greg Bear (2005)
Born: July 20 1951
San Diego, California
Occupation: Novelist
Genres: Science fiction, Speculative Fiction
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Greg Bear (2005)
Born: July 20 1951
San Diego, California
Occupation: Novelist
Genres: Science fiction, Speculative Fiction
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