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Encyclopedia > Word golf

Word golf is a game in which one word is turned into another through a process of substituting single letters. Each time a letter is replaced, a new English word must be formed. Players score points according to the number of steps taken. As in regular golf, the player with the lowest score at the end of the game wins. Find the perfect english language course with http://www. ... Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is an outdoor sport where individual players or teams play a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ...


The game was likely invented by Vladimir Nabokov, and is referred to in his hypertext masterpiece Pale Fire as a favorite pass-time of the fictitious American poet John Shade. Shade's neighbour Charles Kinbote notes that some of his own records include "hate-love in three, lass-male in four, and live-dead in five (with 'lend' in the middle)." In the index to Pale Fire, Nabokov provides the following example of scoring lass-male in four: lass, mass, Mars, male. Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков; pronounced: vlah-DEE-meer nah-BAWK-awf) (April 10 O.S. [April 22/23 N.S.], 1899 - July 2, 1977) was a Russian-American author. ... Pale Fire (1962) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, his fourteenth in total and fifth in English. ... John Shade is a fictional character in Vladimir Nabokovs 1962 novel Pale Fire. ... Charles Kinbote is a fictional character in Vladimir Nabokovs novel Pale Fire. ... Pale Fire (1962) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, his fourteenth in total and fifth in English. ...


See Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, Hypertext, Postmodernism, Word game Pale Fire (1962) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, his fourteenth in total and fifth in English. ... Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков; pronounced: vlah-DEE-meer nah-BAWK-awf) (April 10 O.S. [April 22/23 N.S.], 1899 - July 2, 1977) was a Russian-American author. ... Hypertext - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Post-modernist architecture rejects the rigid geometricity of modernist design in favour of radical, often asymmetrical, forms Postmodernism is a term applied to a wide-ranging set of developments in critical theory, philosophy, architecture, art, literature, and culture, which are generally characterized as either emerging from, in reaction to, or... Word games can be of several different types: Letter arrangement games, where the goal is to form words out of given letters: Anagrams -- both a simple game of rearranging letters and a linguistic recreation of making anagrams that seem to illuminate something about the original word, such as dog for...


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