GRAPHING THE PROVERBS

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247 O O OO ucson rizona s my recent contributions to ord ays show enjoy graphing. ut one day got bored with long words which would never use in writing or speech. omehow thought of graphing proverbs.

1 247 O O OO ucson rizona s my recent contributions to ord ays show enjoy graphing. ut one day got bored with long words which would never use in writing or speech. omehow thought of graphing proverbs. ere is a sample. he reader is no doubt familiar with king and queen graphing (placing the different letters of a word on a chessboard in such a way that one can trace out the word by king's move or queen's move in chess). My original plan was to use king graphing only. owever the words in many proverbs do not all connect. ometimes words like OF or or don't make it. For some cases mixed in a second (related) proverb. his worked sometime but the pair often became too much for a king graph. o shifted to queen graphing. Finding these challenging searched out longer proverbs and now a new problem arose. planned to present graphs as "decipher" puzzles but some are nearly impossible to decipher. o present them in a way that can be adapted to searchaword puzzles. have a computer program for king graphing. potential graph was first laid out in rough form with pencil and paper. he guts were then entered into the computer program letter by letter until recognized that a king graph was or was not possible. f it was usually let the computer finish but sometimes completed the picture using tiles on a checkerboard. f a king graph was not possible tried to extend the king graph nucleus to a queen graph again using tiles on a checkerboard. Often all that was needed to complete a queen graph was an offset of one or two tiles; other times quite a bit of manipulation was needed. Occasionally a queen graph was not possible. For either type of graph tiles were sometimes shifted to make the final form compact and/or symmetrical. ome of these proverbs (or sayings or cliches) are not politically correct (a woman's place...) today. hose of rish origin are easily recognized by the pugnacious tone. he proverb about the crows is of cottish ongln. oosterchicken analogies usually indicate a panish origin. Many proverbs appear in collections from several languages. o illustrate the game the following graphs may be read as "all that glitters is not gold" "big fish eat little fish" and "a graph a day keeps boredom away". he page preceding the graphs lists the proverbs to be searched for or taken as hints in deciphering. he nswers and olutions keys each proverb on the list to the number accompanying its

2 248 graph. here are 61 proverbs on the list which are to be located in 1 different graphs. ing graphs are in general more difficult to decipher than queen graphs because the tightness allows more false leads. t is possible that some graphs may include unplanned proverbs.... F 1 M limitation of both king graphs and queen graphs is that there can be no more than eight joins to a letter. ith proverbs that limit often occurs with the letter caused by O O and/or OU. O O can be replaced with O' but have avoided all contractions in this article. Often this replacement is of no value because some word like OMOO also calls for the O join. he proverb "do not take love for granted or you will lose it" became graphab1e when OU was replaced with as shown below. he proverb "they speak of my drinking but never of my thirst" became queen graphab1e when OF was replaced with OU. noticed that the letters in graph 39 are all on the same color squares of a checkerboard allowing me to reform the graph to the one on the right below. his is related to making ordinary searchaword F 39. F M 8 puzzles. he best plan there is to make two separate rectangular crossword arrays con vert each to a diagonal array and intermix by placing each on a separate color. hen add connecting words orthogonally as you can. ing graphs are actually searchaword graphs if one considers each bigram to be a twoletter word. 1 leopard can not change his spots 2 man s tongue has often broken his nose 3 shut mouth makes no enem1es 4 woman s place is at home

bsence makes the heart grow fonder 6 ctions speak louder than words 7 fter the game the king goes into the sack like the pawn 8 ll that glitters is not gold 9 pril showers bring May flowers 1 ad news

3 bsence makes the heart grow fonder 6 ctions speak louder than words 7 fter the game the king goes into the sack like the pawn 8 ll that glitters is not gold 9 pril showers bring May flowers 1 ad news travels fast 11 eggars cannot be choosers 12 etter safe than sorry 13 eware of reeks bearing gifts 14 irds of a feather flock together 1 read is the staff of life 16 eath is the poor man f s physician 17 o not bite the hand that feeds you 18 o not bite off more than you can chew 19 very man has his price 2 xplore every avenue 21 Familiarity breeds contempt 22 ood luck beats early rising 23 ad you not been among the crows you would not have been shot 24 e that will enter aradise must have a good key 2 e who sleeps with dogs wakes up with fleas 26 itch your wagon to a star 27 llgotten gains never prosper 28 mitation is the sincerest form of flattery 29 t is easier said than done 3 t takes two to tango 31 eave no stone unturned 32 eave well enough alone 33 ook before you leap 3/+ ove is blind 3 ove makes the world go around 36 Make hay while the sun shines 37 Melons and women are difficult to judge 38 Might is right 39 Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows 4 o news is good news 41 o pain no gain 1+2 One rotten apple spoils the barrel 43 olitics makes strange bedfellows 4/+ ractice makes perfect 4 abbits and lies multiply easily O.6 hoemaker stick to your last. 47 trike while the iron is hot Olt8 he best thin gs in life are free 49 he early bird gets the worm he early bird catches the worm 1 he grass is always greener on the other side of the fence 2 he pen is mightier than the sword 3 he wolf may lose his teeth but never his nature 4 here is always an exception to the rule here is no place like home 249

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An Idiom a Day Will Help Keep the Boredom In Schooling Away #1. What are idioms?

An Idiom a Day Will Help Keep the Boredom In Schooling Away #1 What are idioms? Dictionary A- noun- form of expression peculiar to one language; dialect Dictionary B- noun- A form of expression whose understood