Logology
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Logology is the study of words with an emphasis on letter patterns, often as part of recreational wordplay such as anagrams, palindromes and isograms, rather than on meaning. The name "logology" for this study was popularized, to the extent that it is popular at all, by Dmitri Borgmann, an author of several books on language in the late 1960s. See Borgmann's books for more about logology:
- Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities Copyright 1965. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons
- Beyond Language (Adventures in Word and Thought) Copyright 1967. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons
- Curious Crosswords (edited and annotated by Borgmann) Copyright 1970. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons
Logology is also the name of a fictional new religion in Greg Bear's novel, Heads.
