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Taxonomy rant!
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 |
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