whats its called you use the word god and reverse it to dog??
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whats its called you use the word god and reverse it to dog??
also what is it called you take words like therapist, and break it down to The rapist?
Are there any books, or links that spealise in words with hidden meanings, maybe hidden meanings behind political names???
Hope anyone can help me!!!! thanks
2007-02-25 05:38:24 · 4 answers · asked by emzo2000 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Just to be clear... palindromes are words/phrases/sentences that are identical when backwards and forwards:
Hannah
Racecar
A man, a plan, a canal, panama!
A palindrome is an anagram, but not all anagrams are palindromes.
Loop to Pool, Dog to God, those are not palindromes, they may be anagrams, but poor examples as all you are shuffling are the first and last letters. True anagrams are words like "satin" and "stain," or "Quid est veritas?" [What is truth?], and the answer "Est vir qui adest" [it is the man who is here]. Those are more intricate anagrams.
Taking words like "therapist" and breaking it down into "the rapist" or taking "justice" and breaking it into "just ice" doesn't have a specific term, it's just a matter of breaking up the morphemes, which are groups of phonemes that contain meaningful information that can't be further broken down into meaningful bits.
If you go to www.verbaladvantage.com, you will find a website chock full of interesting information about our language. The guy who runs the websites and writes the book is a genius.
2007-02-25 06:22:49 · answer #1 · answered by greecevaca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To the person who gave the racecar and hannah examples, those are not anagrams. They are palindromes, words that are the same when reversed.
The scrambled words and phrases are anagrams. Dan Brown's The DaVinci code had some nice examples of anagrams and other clever word puzzles.
This site is good for solving, or creating, anagrams.
http://www.ssynth.co.uk/~gay/anagram.html
2007-02-25 13:51:56 · answer #2 · answered by Kisrah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She's right. It's an anagram, or an example of dyslexia.
I like to tell people I'm a dyslexic athiest. I don't believe there's a dog.
2007-02-25 13:43:15 · answer #3 · answered by The Avatar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's called an anagram
and some other ones are:
racecar- racecar
hannah-hannah
lived-devil
pool-loop
2007-02-25 13:41:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋