ANAGRAMS

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.'

DEVELOPING SKILL

Submitted by Wild Kid Nick

If you want to develop your anagramatic skills using the webpage to find the anagrams is not a good solution. Did you also use the webpage for the PACs?

I guess the best solution is to do both - learn to find anagrams by trial & error and develop / learn about the underlying rules of the process. And also use the webpage to find them ('spec. if you are in a hurry). The webpage will use a set of rules to anagramate your input. Perhaps you could try and see if other anagrams can be found in a word / phase that you also got an anagram from the webpage.

Anagrammic Conversation

Submitted by Christopher Jury

Caleb Wells= Well cables.
What is the point of anagrams?=
Passionate Warmth of Hating.
That does not relate to anagrams!=
Stagnate a tolerant masterhood.
Anagrammic Gibberish?=
Margin Shabbier Magic.
Make an anagram conversation=
Anorak on maniac's ravagement???!!!!!

Officially Signed and Most Graciously Authenticated, His Most Imperial and Royal Majesty, Christophe Wilhelm the Twelfth, by the Grace of God, Deutsch Kaiser and King of Prussia, The Imperial Supreme Ruler Emperor of The Great German Empire and Grand Kaiser of The Mighty German Armed Forces.

ANAGRAM, ANAGRAMMATIC, AND ANAGRAMMARIZED

Submitted by Wild Kid Nick

I assume you worked out CALEB WELLS without assistance of online anagrammatic mechanisms?

ANAGRAMMIC is French for ANAGRAMATIC - the Latin is ANAGRAMMA.

And how about ANAGRAMMARING for the verb ? The past tense is in the sentence below.

Therefore, 'He had anagrammarized the phrase 40 different ways when his brother found in a minute an anagramatic solution that experts judged to be the greatest anagram ever.

Ahem...

Submitted by Brian Grady

No, I just made them up as I typed them in as a post.
MY LATEST BATCH:
Guess What = Washes Gut = Hugest Saw = Huge Swat
Fraud Monitoring Is On = Finding A Sour Monitor
I Must Go Now = Wooing Smut
I Must Go Now.

A CORRECTION - BRIAN

Submitted by Wild Kid Nick

Guess What = Washes Gut = Hugest Saw = Huge Swats

The above phrases belong to an angrammatic set [AS] with 4 or more members. Are there other members? Can you find a set with more than 4 members?

I am transferring this comment to my challenge about the angrammability of a word or phrase. The anagrammability of the above phrase is 4 / number of ways the letters 'guesswhat' can be ordered, which is[7!] x 36 . There are 36 different positions that 'ss' can be in the 9 spaces __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __. For any one positioning of the two 'ss's there are 7! orderings of the other 7 letters. Therefore the anagrammability of 'GUESS WHAT' =

4 / 181440 which is .000022

If there were only 2 anagrams the anagrammability would be .000011.
Of course, if there's more than 4 in the above AS then .000022 us uncorrect.

FOUND VERSUS MADE-UP

Submitted by Wild Kid Nick

I believe all anagrams are found and not made up. Each anagram is 'inherently' there in the possibilities of our language - much like new mathematical findings are inherent in numbers 0 - 9 and other underlying assumptions of maths.

Perhaps I am just playing with words. Is a Mozart Symphony or a rock song just found because the combination of tones in each is inherently possible given the pitches of Western Music?