Anagrams
are nothing more than taking a word and rearranging its letters to form a new
word. It’s especially cool when you can
create words of opposites using the same letters.
Some
words can’t be turned into anything else, like “writer” or “author.” Some words can be inverted, such as “keep”
and “peek”. Some words take some
thought. “Diamond” could be “midland” or
“mondial.”
A
useful site for anagrams is www.wordplays.com. In addition to showing you anagrams, it can
show you words that stat with a particular word, words that end with that word,
or words that merely contain that word.
For instance, type in “shit” and we find 23 words, from 5-12 letters
long, that contain, start, or end with the synonym for “dung. The site also offers definitions of all
words.
Scrabble
players should love this site. Really,
anyone amused by language, word play, and culture should check it out.
Another
site worth seeing is www.manythings.org. It
shows you 600 anagrams, arranged by word length or topics. Who knew so many words come from the same
letters?
Another
site, www.fun-with-words.com, shows words strung together to form anagram phrase
that relate to each other, such as:
The
eyes
They
see
Debit
card
Bad
credit
The
Morse code
Here
come dots
Schoolmaster
The
classroom
Eleven
plus two
Twelve
plus one
Desperation
A
rope ends it
The
site also features:
*Anagrams
of sayings and sentences
*Very
long anagrams
*Anagrams
of famous people’s names
*Celebrity
one-word anagrams
It
also had a section on crude anagrams, including:
I
have a large penis
He
is plain average
Large
breasts
Great
braless
President
Clinton of the USA
To
copulate, he finds interns
The
menage a trois
A
giant threesome
Husband
and wife
Fun
was had in bed
www.word-buff.com points out alphagrams as a way of solving anagrams. Alphagrams put the letters of a word in
alphabetical order.
Why
do writers love words so much? We all
seem to enjoy nuances, history, and quirks as it relates to the alphabet, the
dictionary, and the language. Anagrams,
synonyms, homonyms, spelling, compound words, and all of the sideshow oddities
draw us in, with childlike curiosity. We
love word games, from Scrabble and crossword puzzles to jumbo word searches and
Hangman. We love how so many things seem
to attach themselves to a letter, word, or phrase, as if we can decode life by
understanding such things as palindromes or rhymes.
For
word junkies, check out these sites:
By
the way, “anagram” doesn’t have an anagram.
Ok,
word nerds, I leave you with this: “Rhythms” is the longest word in English
without the standard vowels, a, e, i, o, or u. Also, there is only one common
word in English that has five vowels in a row, “queueing.”
I
leave you with some sample anagrams:
Bats
Stab
Note
Tone
Skill
Kills
Flow
Wolf
Nap
Pan
Ton
Not
Rock
Cork
Cape
Pace
Silent
Listen
Slut
Lust
War
Raw
Spit
Pits
Top
Pot
Team
Meat
Shit
Hits
Live
Evil
United
Untied
Maps
Spam
Pines
Spine
Kids
Skid
West
Stew
Rise
Sire
Words
Sword
Penis
Spine
Cares
Scare
Snot
Tons
Fats
Fast
Last
Salt
Weird
Wired
Dog
God
Death
Hated
Cloud
Could
Carp
Crap
Hate
Heat
Iced
Dice
DON'T MISS THESE POSTS
2016 Book Marketing & Book Publicity Toolkit
http://bookmarketingbuzzblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/2016-book-marketing-book-publicity.html
http://bookmarketingbuzzblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/2016-book-marketing-book-publicity.html
The Best Reference Books For Writers
Writers
Need A Breakthrough, Not A Breakdown
10
Things Writers Are Doing To Achieve Success
The 7 Tenets of Author
Branding
How we can improve the
world with books by 2030
How to make a blog post
go viral – or at least get opened
How to connect your book
to the news
Explore a guided tour
through the English language
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.