Oak Park Retirement Community » word play http://www.oakparkretirementcommunity.com Helping seniors with independent and assisted living in Oak Park, River Forest, Forest Park, Berwyn, and Elmwood Park. Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:49:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Word Play Workshop http://www.oakparkretirementcommunity.com/senior-fun/word-play-workshop/ http://www.oakparkretirementcommunity.com/senior-fun/word-play-workshop/#comments Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:22:39 +0000 admin http://www.oakparkretirementcommunity.com/?p=272 A workshop called “Word Play” will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Oak Park Arms, 408 S. Oak Park Ave. The public is invited to this fun and stimulating session.

Presented by Lisa Markwart of the Light Verse Foundation, the workshop concerns the etymology (origin) of words, palindromes and rebuses. Word games, brain teasers and puzzles will delight participants.

Where do words come from? How and when were they invented? Questions like these will be answered. Palindromes are words or phrases that read the same in both directions such as “eye” or “racecar.” A rebus is a representation of a word or phrase by pictures or symbols that suggest that word or phrase or its syllables. An example is: a picture of two gates and a head is a rebus for Gateshead.

The Oak Park Arms is a rental retirement community which provides independent and assisted living apartments and a full schedule of activities and services. Furnished apartments are also available for a short-term stay – a weekend, a week, a month or longer.

Word Play is free and open to the public, but reservations are requested. Call Jill Wagner at 708-386-4040.

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