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They are defined as words or phrases in which the letters can be transposed, or twisted around, into other words/phrases, while still making sense and having the same meaning. Here are some examples:

Absence makes the heart grow fonder
He wants back dearest gone from here

Angered
Enraged

Alphabetically
I play all the ABC

Asinine
Is inane

Apple Macintosh
Laptop machines

Adolf Hitler
Hated for ill

Allegories
Lies galore

Can you come up with some?

2007-02-09 06:46:14 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

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[Some old chestnuts that have been going around for several years]

President Clinton of the USA
To copulate he finds interns

and I found these

President Boris Yeltsin enjoys "endless insobriety trip," while "the end of the world is nigh" becomes a frantic "down this hole -- frightened!" And "eleven plus two" amazingly uses the same letters as "twelve plus one."

Computer-generated anagrams are becoming longer, cleverer and funnier as special software, first written in 1988, has steadily improved. Here are two astonishing recent ones:

Original phrase: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. (Neil Armstrong)."

Anagram: "A thin man left planet, ran, makes large stride, pins a flag on moon. On to Mars!"

Original phrase: "To be or not to be: that is the question, whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arows of outrageous fortune" (Shakespeare).

Anagram: "In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."

(An English-speaking anagrammist is someone who, if asked to name the four points of the compass, replies "Thorn, Shout, Seat and Stew.")

Anu Garg created Internet Anagram Server (I, Rearrangement Servant).

Finally, Stifle is a very strange word. It's an anagram of itself.

The Towering Inferno -- Not worth fire engine

Tony Blair MP -- I'm Tory, Plan B

William Shakespeare -- I am a weakish speller

President Clinton of the USA -- To copulate, he finds interns

Dormitory -- Dirty room

Evangelist -- Evil's agent

Desperation -- A rope ends it

The Morse Code -- Here come dots

Slot machines -- Cash lost in 'em

Animosity -- Is no amity

Mother-in-law -- Woman Hitler

Snooze alarms -- Alas! No more Zs

The best things in life are free -- Nail-biting refreshes the feet.

2007-02-09 22:03:16 · answer #1 · answered by smci 7 · 0 0

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