Anagramatic Names
An anagram is a word or phrase created after changing the order of the letters of another word or phrase. Changing the order that letters appear can often dramatically change the meaning of what is written.
Anagrams are possible with many words and phrases and sometimes also with our own names. A word or name spelled in reverse is called an anadrome. An anadrome spelled the same in both directions is a paladrome. Anagram, anadrome, and paladrome names are ananyms.
Our names are sometimes said to be the words we most like to hear. How different might our names seem if we were deliberately dyslexic and rearranged the letters? A ROSE might still smell as sweet by any other name - but it might not sound as nice (as a SORE). Other times, DESSERTS can be created - simply by changing what is STRESSED.
Have you ever reversed or rearranged the letters or even just changed the spacing in your own name(s) to create new words or meanings?
LEON reversed becomes NOEL; EDNA reversed becomes ANDE; and OREN can be reverse to become NERO. The words formed in reverse are not always other names. The name ENOLA in reverse is ALONE; DEB backwards is BED; PAM spelled the opposite direction is MAP.
More often, though, simply reversing the order of letter doesn't work; the letters have to rearranged (like solving the popular puzzle jumble): NATE to NEAT; KATE to TEAK, and SHARM to HARMS or MARSH.
Other times it's not even necessary to rearrange the order of letters to create new meanings; just add some punctuation and/or spacing: IMPOSSIBLE? -> I'M POSSIBLE!
What about YOUR name?
Anagrams are possible with many words and phrases and sometimes also with our own names. A word or name spelled in reverse is called an anadrome. An anadrome spelled the same in both directions is a paladrome. Anagram, anadrome, and paladrome names are ananyms.
Our names are sometimes said to be the words we most like to hear. How different might our names seem if we were deliberately dyslexic and rearranged the letters? A ROSE might still smell as sweet by any other name - but it might not sound as nice (as a SORE). Other times, DESSERTS can be created - simply by changing what is STRESSED.
Have you ever reversed or rearranged the letters or even just changed the spacing in your own name(s) to create new words or meanings?
LEON reversed becomes NOEL; EDNA reversed becomes ANDE; and OREN can be reverse to become NERO. The words formed in reverse are not always other names. The name ENOLA in reverse is ALONE; DEB backwards is BED; PAM spelled the opposite direction is MAP.
More often, though, simply reversing the order of letter doesn't work; the letters have to rearranged (like solving the popular puzzle jumble): NATE to NEAT; KATE to TEAK, and SHARM to HARMS or MARSH.
Other times it's not even necessary to rearrange the order of letters to create new meanings; just add some punctuation and/or spacing: IMPOSSIBLE? -> I'M POSSIBLE!
What about YOUR name?
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