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Please explain or pray tell. What are swiftie puzzles, NPR's etc.?

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Did you hear the swiftie puzzles on NPR's All Things Considered Sunday
Edition?

J. Del Col

NPR is National Public Radio. Local community colleges generally carry it on
their stations. Each Sunday at around 8:35 eastern time, the puzzle editor
of the NY Times, Will Shortz, joins the program along with the winner of the
previous weeks winner. He then presents a word puzzle for the listener to
solve, in parts. It's fun.

"Swifties" are Tom Swifties, where a statement is attributed to Tom (or
another individual) and a descriptive word is added at the end. For example:

"The bypass was successful, the cardiologist said heartily!"

More word fun here, including the occasional swifties:

http://www.miniclip.com/games/hangaroo-2/en/

Diana


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Diana Kulaga wrote:
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Did you hear the swiftie puzzles on NPR's All Things Considered Sunday
Edition?

J. Del Col

wendy7 wrote:
J,
Please explain or pray tell. What are swiftie puzzles, NPR's etc.?


NPR is National Public Radio here in the US. All Things Considered
Sunday Edition is a news and feature show on Sunday mornings. It has a
puzzle feature hosted by Will Shortz, the man who composes the Sunday
crossword puzzle in the New York Times.

Swifties are made by using a punning adverb to follow a brief
quotation. They get their name from the Tom Swift books that were
popular reading for boys up until the 1950's or so. Tom Swift was a
boy genius who was always coming up with amazing inventions. In the
books no character simply said something; they always said something
like this. "The airplane is on fire!" Tom said heatedly. That's a
Swifty.

Some other examples--

"I can't solve this puzzle," Tom said cluelessly.

"That's a weighty problem," Tom said heavily.

"I may have to go to prison," Tom said penitently

Etc, ad infinitum.


J. Del Col