when a word spells something right side up and upside down. I think it's ____gram
2006-10-05 19:56:53 · 5 answers · asked by waterbear 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It is an ambigram alright see this ambigram samples
http://www.danbrown.com/secrets/ambigram.html
http://www.danbrown.com/secrets/ambigram2.html
2006-10-05 20:06:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In English you could use the word "palindrome" which is also Greek and means "both ways" from the words "palin" = "again" and "drome" = way, street.
In Greek we call it "cancer-read" from the words "cancer" which means "crab" (and a crab moves only sideways) and "read", the past tense of "read".
You can find the word you want in ILLUMINATI by Don Brown. Although I've read the book in Greek, the word is in there and I think it's mentioned like "ambigram" or something similar....
Good luck!
2006-10-06 03:18:11 · answer #2 · answered by ngiapapa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think you mean it can be read from either end, or backwards and front wards. its called an anagram
2006-10-07 10:50:26 · answer #3 · answered by gypsy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ambigram
2006-10-06 02:58:31 · answer #4 · answered by Kuji 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its called a palindrome. like...RACECAR
2006-10-06 03:02:00 · answer #5 · answered by Nara 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋