CHALLENGE WRITTEN BY BRIAN GRADY
Anagrams are when you can rearrange letters in a word or phrase to make a new word or phrase. The best ones are when the new word is either an antonym or a synonym of the old one. For example:
Funeral = Real Fun,
Twelve plus one = Two plus eleven
Slot machines = Cash lost in 'em
Softheartedness = Often sheds tears,
Punishment = Nine thumps
Hated for ill = Adolf Hitler
Old west action = Clint Eastwood.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder =
He wants back dearest gone from here.'
Current events
Spider-Man Three = Spin mere thread
Nicholas Sarkozy = Nazi shocks Royal
Middle East arms race = Malice - desert's drama
A McDonalds quarter-pounder with cheese and fries = Crowded inquest: Man's end, corpse had heart failure
Diego Maradona = An arm? Good idea!
God bless America = Gas oil's embraced
Two thousand eight election = Could tie thee to Washington
The London Olympic games = Logical to spend money? H'm.
White House Intruder = Weirdo shut in eh? True.
The word stifle is an anagram of itself.
Ever wondered why there isn't another word that can be made by rearranging the letters of the word anagram?
anagrammist n. : one who composes anagrams and when asked for the four points of the compass is likely to reply thorn, shout, seat, and stew
Signed, Sealed, Pope General Caleb Benedictus XIII, Commander of the IVth Great and Bountiful Italian Empire.
Liberty
Statue of Liberty = Built to Stay Free
A Gentleman = Elegant Man
Presbyterian = Best In Prayer
The Detectives = Detect Thieves
The United States Bureau of Fisheries = I Raise the Bass to Feed Us in the Future
Signed, Sealed, Pope General Caleb Benedictus XIII, Commander of the IVth Great and Bountiful Italian Empire.
Nicholas Sarkosy
Is he that new French President?
Yes, the one that should not have got in.
Yes, the one that should not have got in.
Signed, Sealed, Pope General Caleb Benedictus XIII, Commander of the IVth Great and Bountiful Italian Empire.
ANAGRAM SETS & PSEUDO-ANAGRAM CIRCLES
Two challenges:
LARGEST SET OF ANAGRAMS
What is the largest set of anagrams of a single word / phrase ?
PSEUDO-ANAGRAMATIC CIRCLES [PACs]
A pseudo-anagram is an anagram where all but one letter in a word appears in it's pseudo-anagramatic partner (or PAP for short), ie., one & ton. Create PAP circles in which the PAPs change till the last word in the PAP chain shares no letters with the beginning word in the chain. Then return to the beginning word in the same way.
TWO RELATED EXAMPLES of PACs
one ton tan tap sap map man men one OR
one son sin sip tip tin ten one
(note my two lists can switch in the middle SIP SAP & TAP TIP)
Such PACS are probably easy with 3 letter words but what about with more than 3 letters ?
Can you make more than one PACS intersect? See my example - it has a figure-8 construction. Another kind of anagramatic symmetry (see my next post) - I may make these seperate challenges.
NIcholas Sarkosy
Why shoudn't he have got in ?
CAN YOU FIND ANAGRAMMATIC SYMMETRY ?
Here are the RULES that determine if symmetry occurs within an anagramatic relationship.
One or more letters act as an axis of symmetry [ALs]
Letters before the ALs in one word occur after the ALs in the other word of the anagramatic pair
When the group of letters are reflected accross the ALs, order within that group of letters does not need to be also reflected
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However, cognitive admiration will occur if you obtain reflection; lesser but still significant intellectual brownie points are awarded if the letters maintain their order after reflection.
Examples of reflected words are
YARD to DRAY
START to TARTS
ROOM to MOOR
I will refrain to finding anymore & look forward to being stimulated by your discoveries. I use the words 'find' and 'discover' here because the anagramatic relationships pre-exist within dictionaries or wherever these words are written. (Similarly to mathematical rules & proofs wait to be discovered).
Finally, anagrams concern the written version of the words what are some phonagrams (or phonanagrams), where it is the sounds of the words that are rearranged to create a new word?
ps., you can use proper names here (unlike scabble)
SArkosky
Me and my mum think he's evil.. :p
Signed, Sealed, Pope General Caleb Benedictus XIII, Commander of the IVth Great and Bountiful Italian Empire.
Sarkovsy
Why ? I must admit I know nothing about him.
Stifle:
Stifle is also an anagram of filets.