ie., one son sin sip tip tin ten one
A pseudo-anagram is an anagram where all but one letter in a word appears in it's pseudo-anagrammatic partner (or PAP for short), ie., one & son. 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.
The words used can include names as long as they are in a dictionary, encyclodepia or atlas (including specialty ones other than foriegn language dictionaries) - also can use internet ones.
Here are two interocking PACs that make a figure-8 shape.
one ton tan tap sap map man men one OR
one son sin sip sap tap tip tin ten one
(note my two lists can meet in the middle)
Can you make other PACs with one, or with other words ?
What is the greatest number of letters you can have in your base word ?
In what other ways than in the example above can you make PACs intersect ?
Can you also make them so that in each pair of words within the PAC the common letters are in different positions in each word?
PSUEDO-ANAGRAMATIC ELLIPSES
Most of our PACs are not real circles. A real circle is the 'shortest' journey around a point. My initial PAC has 6 words between the final and the initial ones, this suggests that 2n words is the shortest route where n = number of letters in each word.
Perhaps what we've found are more like ellipses so they should be PAEs -
PSUEDO-ANAGRAMATIC ELLIPSES !
We need to search for a real PAC for 4 letter words.