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L’Ishing du Gwujlang III

by Dorothea Dorfman and Theodora Mundorf
with additional assistance from Lini Nealey and Lucia Chaloux

Alert readers will already be acquainted with l’ishing from our previous discussions (SpecGram CLXX.2, etc.). Though outwardly similar to French verlan, l’ishing swaps words that map onto one another when some portion of the sounds at the end of a given word are moved to the front, or vice versa. For example, dinner /dɪnər/ and innard /ɪnərd/ can be used in place of one another, as in “I’m famished, let’s get some innard.”, or “That guy just cut that other guy’s belly and a bit of his dinner came out.”

Unlike verlan, l’ishing words normally cannot be formulated on the fly, so glossaries have been created for neophytes. However, words are not listed in the glossaries, only mnemonically merged definitions (MMDs). For example:

an evening meal for an intestine (referring to an innard dinner)

We have acquired another clutch of such MMDs, and seek your help in determining the paired words they refer to. The MMDs are provided below.

In order to increase the response rate from SpecGram readers, The SpecGram Puzzle Elves™ have agreed to treat this as a puzzle. Submit your answers to the editors of SpecGram by November 15, 2014, and you could win a prize.* Some most likely correct answers and winners will be announced in the December issue.

Disclaimer

Your dialect and/or transcription system may vary.

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Word Ladder 二
Solution

In other puzzle-related news, the solution to last month’s Word Ladder 二 puzzle has been provided here. A whole heaping bunch of puzzlemeisters figured this one out. Of the countless billions of correct answers, the following were selected for recognition.

Adam Hesterberg • Eric Chen • Gretchen McCulloch • Moritz Rathgeber • Siva Kalyan

Each will receive a SpecGram prize of their choosing, while supplies last.


* Note that SpecGram Anti-Hoarding Guidelines stipulate that puzzle-related prizes cannot be won by anyone who has won a puzzle-related prize in the last three months—though honor, fame, and glory may still be seized† on the metaphorical field of puzzle-related battle.

† Except where taxed, prohibited by law, or otherwise restricted, constrained, limited, regulated, controlled, hindered, impeded, hampered, obstructed, checked, curbed, shackled, confined, or otherwise subject to thesaural interference.


Parenting Styles and Progeny Success—A Practical Guide to Broken-Record Parenting—The Linguistics Edition—Book Announcement from Psammeticus Press
SpecGram Vol CLXXI, No 3 Contents