What are they called? I totally forgot the name!
(ie. pots, stop. pot, top.)
you know?
2007-01-01 19:32:23 · 1 answers · asked by sasha 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
There are several terms used for it. The one I usually use, and which I think may be the most common is "anadrome" (a combination of "anagram" = making a new word or phrase by changing the order of letters, and "palindrome" - a word or expression that reads the same forwards or backwards).
Other terms are variations of palindrome or anagram, or some combination of the two, such as:
heteropalindromes, semi-palindromes, half-palindromes
reversgrams, reversible anagrams, word reversals
[Wikipedia also lists "antigram", but this term is generally used to describe a pair of anagrams with opposite MEANINGS]
The most fun name is one invented by Lewis Caroll -- "Semiordnilap" (the reverse of "palindrome")
http://www.anagrammy.com/anagrams/faq3.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semordnilap
Related to this, you might enjoy the following sentence -- a palindrome, but constructed with three sets of anadromes:
"rats live on no evil star"
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/palindromes?view=uk
2007-01-02 05:51:03 · answer #1 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋