Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Anagrams..!!


Hello World,

I was surfing the web today when i came across the term "anagram", i was further surprised to find out that Google suggested : nag a ram :         -__-.

Anyway i read a few definition of anagrams and this is how i can explain it to you, An anagram is a rearrangement of the letters of one word or phrase to form another word or phrase. it is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once, Fairly speaking, i think its just Genius.

There are special kind of anagrams, there are the one word anagrams (where a single word is anagrammed into another single word) it is sometimes referred to by wordplay specialists as transpositions. For example, "orchestra" is a transposition of "carthorse". there are some anagrams that are created by perfectly reversing the order of the letters. Examples include "Naomi" -) "I moan.", "Evian" -) "Naive" etc.. There is no completely established word for this type of anagram but the author of this SITE is trying to establish the term "anadrome" for these. The word is completely sound in terms of its derivation (from the ancient Greek "ana" meaning "back" and "dromos" meaning "running") and was used by Douglas St. Paul Barnard in his 1963 book "Anatomy of the Crossword".

Many books on wordplay also include the term antigram. This is an anagram where the meaning of the anagram is considered opposite in some way to the subject. A classic example is "funeral" -) "Real fun.

There are even anagrams which don't involve any rearranging of the sequence of letters in the least, merely the insertion or deletion of spaces. Some great examples include "Psychotherapist" -) "Psycho, the rapist" and "The IRS" -) "Theirs!". These have been referred to as "redividers" though the term can cause confusion as the word "redivider" is itself a palindrome {didn't bother to check what it means}.

Bla Bla Bla..., here is where the real fun starts, i anagrammed My Name, Nwaezuoke Kenechukwu Stephen, and i got this : 'Week skunk new eunuch poet haze.' : i seriously wonder what that means! i mean the Eunuch Part?.

I believe anagrams are a fun way to pass time on the web and most come with a scrabble solver, to help you form words like "QAT" who knew that!. Etcetera. you can check the following site or just Google nag a ram!.

Goodbye World.

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