It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. ~Franklin P. Jones
I had the unusual experience by reading this ebook “Palindromes and Anagrams” by Howard W.Bergerson. Normally I find these kind of books to be boring but this one has piqued my interest right from the start.
So what is a palindrome and a anagram?
Palindrome –A palindrome is a word, number or phrase or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted).
Anagram - An anagram is a rearrangement of the letters in either a word or a phrase (using each letter exactly once in the word or phrase created).
A la Dan Drown
Source : Wikipedia
But that is not it, here are the other jargons
Ambigram : An anagram which is ambiguously opposite to the original phrase, such as The Nuclear Regulatory Commission = your rules clone atomic nightmares
Anigram or animagram An animation (usually in a computer format) showing the letters of a word or phrase moving as they rearrange to form an anagram.
Antigram An anagram which is antonymous of the original phrase, such as violence = nice love.
Pairagram A transposed couplet in which the anagrams are linked in meaning, or form a sentence when juxtaposed. Examples are Elvis = lives8 and married = admirer
Pangram Not really a variety of anagram, but included here because of the similarity in name and meaning. So called perfect pangrams are anagrams of the alphabet, e.g. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz = The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Spamagram A term used exclusively in the newsgroup alt.anagrams. Those who spam the newsgroup (i.e. post irrelevant messages) will find their words anagrammed by alt.anagrams regulars. The resulting anagrams are termed spamagrams.
Synanagram Single words that are anagrams of other single words, such as angered = enraged
Trianagram Also called triplets, these are three-way anagrams such as mastering = emigrants = streaming.
Ref : www.fun-with-words.com
I also found some references to these in my old Jughead and Archie’s comics. Of all these my most favourite is an oxymoron.
Oxymoron- a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in "cruel kindness" or "to make haste slowly."
Here is one of my own oxymoron "Fun at work"
P.S I guess my boss won't be reading this blog
