Did you know that parliament is an anagram
of partial men?
Or, Clint Eastwood an anagram of Old West Action?
Someone once said, "All the life's wisdom can
be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie."
Here is your chance to discover the wisdom of anagrams.
Cool Anagram Generator Tool
- The word "anagrams" is an anagram of
"ars magna", Latin for "great art".
- Louis XIII, the King of France during early seventeenth
century, appointed a Royal Anagrammatist for a handsome salary.
- The word stifle is an anagram of itself.
- Japan's former capital city (Kyoto, A.D. 794-1868) and
present capital city (Tokyo) names are anagrams of each other.
- Kingdom of Java's (Indonesia) former capital city was
Kartasura and then moved to Surakarta.
- 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.
- An anagram which has reverse spelling of a word and
itself spells a proper word is called a semordnilap.
- The name of synthetic fiber Spandex is an
anagram of expands.
- Clabbers is a variant of the Scrabble game.
In this game, all the rules are the same as for Scrabble except for one:
all words have to be anagrams of real words.
- Do Lewis Carroll's poems prove he was Jack the Ripper?
See The Straight Dope.
- It's said that the right to lampoon royalty and
politicians, using anagrams, was enshrined in English law, when King John
signed the Magna Carta (Anagram Act) in 1215. (-:
- Also Newton supposedly used an anagram in describing
calculus in a letter to Leibniz. See this and the book A Passion for Mathematics: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and
the Quest for Reality (page 30).
Auto
Anagrams
- Camry,
a car from Toyota is an anagram of my car.
- Elantra,
a car from Hyundai is an anagram of A rental.
- Subaru,
a car brand from Fuji is an anagram of U R a bus.
Pangram
A pangram is a sentence that uses
all letters of the alphabet. So if you are thinking about finding anagrams of
all letters from A to Z, what you are looking for is a pangram that is 26
letter long. Here are a few:
- Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz.
- Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx.
Anagram
in various languages
Spanish:
Anagrama = Amar gana (Love wins)
German:
Anagramm = Am ragman
French:
Anagramme
Italian:
Anagramma
Portuguese:
Anagrama
Anigram
An anigram is anagram which animates
to show itself at work. An example of anigram is at the home page of this site
which shows how letters of the phrase "Internet Anagram Server"
rearrange themselves to make "I, Rearrangement Servant". You can
display your own anigrams on your own Web page. See
here.
Anugram
An anugram is a true anagram. e.g.
Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one
All anugrams are anagrams but not
all anagrams are anugrams.