Paul Hellweg

Qualche esempio dalla lettera “D”: dysania (somnabulism: difficulty in becoming fully awake after sleep), dypnophobia (phobias: fear of dinner conversations), Doramania (manias: abnormal interest in fur), dulocracy (government: by slaves or servants), Daphnomancy (“-omancy” words, laurel tree), Dysmorphosteopalinklasy (long medical terms: 23 letters), Da, De, Di (short words: of, of, gods), Drw, Dw, Dwr (archaic vowelless words), Dress (Acronyms: Drains Resources, Entailing Silly Sacrifices), Doundrins (food and drink: afternoon drinking), Duende (delightful words: the power to attract via personal charm). Un libro inutilissimo ma piacevole, con acrostici, anagrammi, antigrammi (funeral = real fun), cronogrammi, lipogrammi (Mary had a tiny lamb, it’s wool was pallid as snow – in cui manca sempre la lettera “e”), palindromi (A man, a plan, a canal: Panama), pangrammi (The quick brown fox…ma non solo), univocalici (Meg kept the wee sheep / The sheep’s fleece resembled sleet…). Serve a poco ma può piacere ai patiti della parola.
Segnalato da Simon Turner… (meer)