Word square place names). However, 11-squares are possible if words from a number of languages are allowed ("Word Ways", August 2004 and May 2005). It is possible to estimate the degree of difficulty of constructing word squares. 5-squares can be constructed with as little as a 250-word vocabulary. Roughly, for each step upwards, one needs four times the number of words. For a 9-square, one needs over 60,000 9-letter words, which is practically all of those in single very large dictionaries. For large squares, the vocabulary prevents selecting more "desirable" words (i.e. words that are unhyphenated, in common use, without contrived inflections,
Six-Word Memoirs & Obscure" was released in early 2008. It collected almost 1,000 Six-Word Memoirs, including additions from many celebrities like Richard Ford, Deepak Chopra, and Moby. It was a "New York Times" bestseller, featured in many stories in "The New Yorker" , and highlighted on National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation". As a romantic follow-up to "Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs from Writers Famous & Obscure," "Smith" released "Six-Word Memoirs on Love Heartbreak" in early 2009. "Six-Word Memoirs on Love & Heartbreak" contains hundreds of personal stories about the pinnacles and pitfalls of romance. The editors of