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What is an Anagram? What are those? An anagram is a word or phrase that is created by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. This is a common game at parties (i.e. wedding showers take the name of the bride and groom and try to create new words.) Below are some very clever anagrams because they mean practically the same thing. The
word anagram when composed into an anagram becomes:
History of the Anagram Historians differ on the origin of the anagram. Some feel that they started as far back as the 4th century B.C. with the Greek. In particular someone named Lycophron (poet) who was a favorite entertainer of the wealthier society folks by making up flattering anagrams of their names. (I assume he was well rewarded for this too!) Another idea is that Pythagoras in 6th century B.C. used anagrams to find deep philosophical meanings in words. And yet, many want to give the Romans credit for the ones who created the anagram, although the examples today that still exist are a bit flawed. However, the most famous example of of an anagrammatic word play is the SATOR square. This square was first discovered at Cirencester in Rome (evacuation site) and it looks like this: ROTAS OK, it's not very square-like here when I type it, but I think you get the idea? The words read across and down the same. According to the translation of all four of the words, it means "Arepo the sower, guides the wheels at work" or if you want to go a bit deeper and more philosophical some say, "God controls the Universe." As a result, this infamous word square was believed to be of Christian origin for many years. And if you went with that idea, then these letters also got rearranged with the word "APATERNOSTEROS" going horizontal and diagonal with the "N" being the central letter making the cross. (Unfortunately I can't type that here.) Anagrams seemed to somehow disappear after the Greeks and Roman times until suddenly popping up again around the 13th century by the Jewish Cabbalists, who used them for mystical importance. Suddenly,
anagrams represented a sign of intelligence and learning among people
throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. They quickly spread
throughout the continent, but were especially popular in France.
Thomas Billon actually got to be appointed the "Official Royal
Anagrammatist" to King Louis XIII. Another French King,
Charles IX had a mistress named Marie Touchet whose anagrammed name
became Je Charme Tout (I guess they interchanged the letters I and J and
U and V in those days?), and the King found this especially humorous? ;) The
term "Je Charme Tout" in French means "I charm all." Andre Pujon (another Frenchman) transposed his name as Pendu A Rion, and then committed a murder in the town of Rion so that he could be hanged there in belief that this was his mystical anagram destiny. However, the real priority of anagrams (especially in the Middle Ages) was for religious purposes. And I assume that since the most intelligent could do this, (remember a lot of folks were iliterate?) then it was only the aristocratic, wealthy and religious men or monks who could afford an education that were really skilled to create these anagrams. The most famous Mediaeval anagram was based on the trial of Jesus and on Pilate's question (in Latin) "Quid Est Veritas?" or What is Truth? The reply could be reformed as "Vir Est Qui Adest" or "It is the man before thee." In the 17 centuries, scientists often recorded their results using anagrams to protect their discoveries from being stolen. Galileo, Hygens and Robert Hooke used anagrams on purpose so that they could be the first to claim fame in whatever it was they were seeking.In more recent days, many authors who want to choose a pen name often take their real name and form an anagrammed name from it. For example: A female author who is named Anne B. Wopweski might want to write as a male with an anagramed version of her name being "Weson K. Pinneba." In the Victorian era, it was the thing of the time to rearrange the letters of a common word or phrase to form another word or phrase that had the same relevance or was pretty similar. An example: Astronomer = Moon Starer. In the 19th Century it was also the ta-dah thing to take the names of a famous or popular personality and transpose the letters. An example of this is: Florence Nightingale = Flit on, Cheering Angel. The person who came up with that was none other than Lewis Carroll (author of "Alice in Wonderland") who playfully challenged his readers to form one word from the phrase "New Door." Ironically if you rearrange the letters you get New Door = One Word! Socially today, anagrams live on in games, crossword puzzles and even on pages like this on the internet. Dabbling with words doesn't seem to be as amusing today as it was hundreds of years ago. Single Word
Anagrams are: Here's one that
I think is funny as we are all not Every generation also creates its own words according to how it is living. Words such as Internet, Cell Phone, and Scanner didn't exist years ago, along with many of the popularities of our day such as Beanie Babies, GameBoy, Teflon, Jim Henson, Charles Schultz or even Monica Lewinsky! Our society not only is always inventing new items and "in phrases" and "Who is In and Cool", but also the words and phrases to go along with them. Challenge yourself to take some of the newer words and phrases of today and try to make anagrams from them. Below are some older examples to help keep the fun alive in today's new millennium of words! |
I don't know who the clever person or people are who discovered these.
These are called "Cognate Anagrams" because the letters of a word or phrase transpose to form another word or phrase that redefines the original word or phrase.
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Dormitory Desperation The Morse Code Slot Machines Animosity Snooze Alarm Alec Guinness Semolina The Public Art Galleries A Decimal Point The Earthquakes Eleven Plus two Contradiction Year Two Thousand A Decimal Point An Old Shoe The Countryside The Washington Post Southern California Norwegians School Cafeteria Poetry Alien Forms Rowdies Funeral The Archeologist Slot Machines Roast Turkey A Psychiatrist Pub's Motto = Life's Aim = Television Set Actions Speak Louder than Words Bargain Sale American Allegories Alphabetically Couples The Dawning Considerate Endearment Delicatessen Grand Finale Income Taxes Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott Lubrication Many a true word is spoken in jest The leaning Tower of Pisa Measurements The Mona Lisa Miguel Cervantes De Saavedra Muttering Payment Received Oliver Wendell Holmes One Good Turn Deserves Another Postman Pittance Ralph Waldo Emerson William Shakespeare Say it with flowers A Sentence of Death Retractions Silver and Gold Skin Care Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter A Stitch in time saves nine. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. The active volcanoes. Adolf Hitler An Aisle An alcoholic beverage. Alphabetically The amateur thespians American The American Indian America's Cartoonists The Arabian Desert The Arctic Circle The Artesian wells The Associated Press Bargain Sale Bathing Girls Big mean huns Beer saloons The Blarney Stone The Breweries Brush The California Gold Rush The cantakerous man The Carnegie Library The centenarians Charitableness Christian Christianity Cleanliness Clothespins Compassionateness Compensations Compound interest The compulsory education law A confirmed bachelor Considerate The countryside Crime does not pay The dentist Distillation Divorce scandal The earthquakes The ears The Emerald Island Emotional insanity Families Five dollars Fluctuations of stocks in Wall Street The Ford touring cars The game of billiards Garnet, Amethyst, Emerald A good name is better than great riches. Grand Finale Hustlers Ignorant Intrusion Investigators Jesus Christ, the savior of the world The judgment day of the blessed savior Ladies The Leaning Tower of Pisa Leprachaun (variant spelling) "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby." The liquor habit The lost paradise Love's young dream Lowspiritedness Lubrication Many a true word is spoken in jest The married man Measured Nominate Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island The nude in art An old-time Christmas One's birthday suit A pair of patent leather shoes The pastries The paths of glory lead but to the grave. The pharmacist Pioneer Pittance Plowshare Point Polly wants a cracker? Poorhouse Porcupines Positively no admittance. The Postmaster General Precaution Predomination Premeditation Prestidigitation! Produce Progressive A promissory note The railroad train The reckless automobilist The Red, White and Blue A Remington Rifle The Republican Party Resort Rhinestones Ridiculous The rings of Saturn A rolling stone gathers no moss. Roosevelt's Rough Riders Saint Elmo's Fire Say it with flowers A scoundrel Seclusion The Secret Service of the United States A sentence of death Separation A set of harness Shakespeare, the immortal Bard of Avon The shoe manufacturer A shoplifter Shrubbery A signal of distress The sign of the cross Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles." Six and three Skin Care Slithered The soldier of fortune Somebody's darling The Soprano Singer Special Delivery Stamps Spirit of the dead The Star Spangled Banner A state reform school Statue of Liberty Steaminess Stenographer's handiwork A stick of chewing gum A strip-teaser The submarine warfare Subtly Sunshine and Shadow Surgical Instruments Swedish Nightingale Sweetheart Tambourined Tantrums A telephone girl That settles it Theatrical costumes The Thirteen Original Colonies Time card To be your valentine To cast pearls before swine Traffic rules The trained nurses Transgressions The treason of Benedict Arnold Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" The typewriter An unmarried woman Unsightly Upholsterers The U.S. Library of Congress Valedictorian Volunteer Fire Departments Washington at Valley Forge Weird Nightmares Weather Vanes Western Union Presbyterian Mother-in-law |
A Dirty Room A Rope Ends It Here Come Dots Cash Lost in 'em Is No Amity Alas! No More Z's Genuine Class Is No Meal Large Picture Halls, I Bet I'm a Dot in Place That Queer Shake Twelve Plus One Accord Not In It A year To Shut Down! I'm a dot in place. Had No Sole No City Dust Here Ah, Spotting Hot News! Hot
Sun or Life in a Car? Swen or Inga Hot Cereal Fiasco Try Poe Life On Mars Weirdos Real Fun He's Got a Hot Relic Cash Lost in 'em Try our steak? Sit, Chat, Pay, Sir. Bottom's Up! Families See, it's not live Talk or airs can not show up deeds An Aisle Grab Main Race Lies Galore I play all the ABC Up Close Night Waned Care is noted Tender Name Ensliced eates A flaring end Exact Monies A novel by a Scottish writer Act, Rub, Oil in Men joke and so win trusty praise What a foreign stone pile Man uses meter Ah, not a smile? Gave us a damned clever satire Emit Grunt Every Cent Paid Me He'll do in mellow verse No, rogues never do endorse that! No Stamp A Cent Tip Person whom all read We all make his praise We flirt so this way Faces one at the end To recant, sir Grand old evils Risk Acne "Time's running past" we murmur. This is meant as incentive? He wants back dearest gone from here. Cones evict hot lava. Hated for ill. Is a lane. Gal, can I have a cool beer? I play all the ABC. Inapt hams use theatre. Main race I am in a thinned race No artists are as comic It's a heated barren Chart ice circlet Water's in all these Had editor's set space An Aisle Grab In slight garb Human beings Boosers' Lane Blather sent on ye Where it's beer Shrub Fools hunt a real rich dig. Thus note a mean crank Be literary -- charge in! I can hear ten "tens" I can bless earth Rich Saint! Charity's in it All niceness So let's pinch Stamps one as so nice Pass coin to men To do sum in per cent You must learn; police do watch. I face no bold charmer. Care is noted. No city dust here Damper on society? Dints teeth Do it in a still Love can discard That queer shake Hearest Ireland lads' theme A loony taint is in me Life's Aim I'd sell for a V A little luck wins: fortunes scoot fast Tin roadster Aim ball for this edge Three neat art gems, my lad! Be not a hoarder; right acts gain esteem. A flaring end Let's rush No rating Is to run in Great on visits Tis the just child who saves of error Jesus, thy advent so famed be our delight Ideals A foreign heap tilts enow Unreal chap Fine tale; find thou a novel by Charles Dickens Quit! I rob health Earth's ideal spot Go luny over dames Depression wilts Oil acts in rub Men joke and so win trusty praise I'm her darn mate Made sure A mention Two Canadian province: lands I dread! Nature hinted St. Nicholas made trim This nudity so bare Thereat a foot-apparel shines Pies, tarts, eh? The poet Gray doubts that Hell forgave. Ah, part chemist Opener, I A cent tip Helps a row On tip Sly wan parrot, cackle. O, our hopes! Use pin crop No place to visit any d___ time. He's letter-post manager I put on care I'd remain on top At times I ponder Presto! A digit in it. Due crop G.O.P.'s revisers Payor remits soon Hi! I rattle and roar. He kills; some courts abet it. Hah, we bled under it. I'm long neat firer A public partner, they Or rest Note shiners Ludicrous, I O, hunt star fringes Stroller on go, amasses nothing. Gov. R's true hero soldiers Is lit for seamen So we flirt this way? An old curse Closes us in These
stout detectives ferret each sin One is apart Fastens a horse Oh, this remarkable man's a favored poet. Ouch! A man's feet-hurter Has to pilfer Berry Bush It's S.O.S. read in flags He's
right to confess Irk Acne Slid there To hustle friend or foe So boy demands girl Her top noises rang Price speeds mail vastly This is of departed Blest pennant has regard Home to foster rascal A style of tribute Seen as mist In shorthand workers' Thing of magic we suck Attire sparse Fine rare water ambush But sly Show in sun and shade Smart curing utensils Sing high, sweet Linda She we treat I beat on drum Must rant Repeating "Hello?" Let this attest I am art's cute clothes One coalition retireth English I'm traced Yet none but a lover I One's labor is perfect waste Careful first Tender hearts in us As stronger sins Lo! None defend the traitor scab God grew food in Eden! Eve took fall. Huge water tale stuns. End had you tense. Write pretty, eh? A man-admirer unwon Hints ugly Restores plush It's only for research bugs Lead in a victor Run to divert flame ere spent A few, they all go on starving Thing we dream, Sir Ah, veer at N.E.S.W. No wire unsent Best in prayer Woman
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Source:
"Palindromes and Anagrams" by Howard W. Bergerson
Dover Publications, NY © 1973
This books listed
1,169 anagrams. I picked out the most interesting.
No individual credit for each one was given in the book.
If some of mine are the same as on other sites, I assure you I did not steal
from another site.
This page was one of the first I made when my site began. I had people email me
with some also.
But, to keep a record of all those emails is impossible. In no way can I
provide individual credits. Sorry!
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Malapropisms Every day spoken examples: They are often the result of what happens when a person talks faster than he thinks. Include me out. Nowadays, every Tom, Dick and Harry is named Mike. If people don't want to come to your party, nobody can stop them. This feels like deja vu all over again. That restaurant is so crowded, nobody goes there anymore. Either way, you win or lose. It ain't that I'm pessimistic; it's just that we ain't got a chance. For your information, I would like to ask a question. The future just ain't what it used to be. I feel a draft. Raise that window down. All right, I want you to listen very slowly... A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other. They intend to cut off our heads and throw them in our faces. I can't remember if I told you to stop forgetting? If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it's good enough for me. To ___ with the public. I'm here to represent the people. I'm not guilty and I won't do it again. I am defending the right of this girl to be judged innocent until she is proved innocent. Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice. I'm scared to death to get sick. I'm scared to death to marry you. This is so well-written, one can hardly comprehend it. If you've never seen it, it's worth seeing again. I can't eat on an empty stomach. For a change, give me the usual. It hasn't been touched by human hands, only me. Say "No!" to negativity. It's the people I tell things to that can't keep a secret, not me. Generally speaking, can you be more specific please? It didn't hurt at first, but then I got used to it. No one is faster than me. I take my time. If you want instant coffee, please wait one minute. Just how long have you had your birthmark? This could be done much faster if we only had more time. It's twelve in the morning. Half of all children born are boys or girls. I can be brainless if I put my mind to it. Occasionally I decide to be impulsive. I'll be there when I get there. Anonymity is my claim to fame. There's a certain universality of feeling which is almost worldwide. If God had meant people to go nude they would have been born that way. I've known him since he was born. Every number is greater than the one that follows it. Bless you, Sister. May all your sons be bishops. I'm not trying to belittle you. I'm just trying to knock you down to size. For your information, I'd like to ask you a question. If you can't keep quiet, shut up! Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't see it. I made that before I died. Predictions about the future are difficult. If you don't know where you are going, you must be careful or you might not get there. There's just no stopping tomorrow. The only way to beat them is to get more points. 99% of this is half-mental. You can observe a lot by watching. When you come to a fork in the road, take it. Our similarities are different. |
Malapropisms of Samuel Goldwyn
Hollywood director Samuel Goldwyn was very popular for his verbal potpourri and mixed metaphors. It got to the point where they were quoted in the press, and then re-quoted over and over until his publicity department simply started to makeup crazy Goldwyn quotes for promotions. So the following quotes are said to come from Mr. Goldwyn, but many feel they are the creations of his publicity team to help promote his films. Below are just a few that I feel are the best:
I'm having a bust made of my wife's hands.
Don't talk to me while I'm interrupting you.
Go ahead and destroy those old files, but make copies of them first.
This book has too much plot and not enough story.
The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
If you won't give me your word of honor, will you give me your promise?
We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
You're going to call him William? Every Tom, Dick and Harry is called William.
I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman and child in America to see it.
I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.
Goldwyn quotes
taken from "The Confused Quote Book" by Gwen Foss
© 1997 by JSA Publications, Printed by Gramercy Books
40 Engelhard Avenue, Avenel, NJ 07001
I own hundreds
of humor, joke and word books. When I first started my site, I was naive
about listing book credits at the bottom. I began first on a free
page on Erols Internet (now gone).
Then, I was in Yahoo Geocities, before I bought my own domain.
So, this page is one of the first I made and originates back to
1995.
But all my stuff does come from published sources or my own
creations!
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Tell Me A Story - Party Game This is a game that I played with my
friends. What you do is take 5 bowls and label each bowl: NOUN, VERB,
ADJECTIVE, GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION and SPECIFIC LOCATION. Give each person a lot of paper and a
pen/pencil. Ask each person (the more people the better) to write down on
separate pieces of paper 5 of each of the categories above. For example: 5 nouns: House, Kleenex,
Radio, Glass, Recliner 5 Verbs: Dash, Meander, Hesitate,
Think, Sneeze 5 Adjectives: Smooth, Prickly,
Impatient, Happy, Wet 5 Geographical Locations: Paris, Nile
River, Utah, Disneyland, the Badlands 5 Specific Locations: Mall, Home,
Kitchen, Garage, Classroom (If you want to add adverbs you can. But
that's a bit harder) Now, determine what kind of story
this is to be: Sci-Fi, Romance, Western, Soap Opera, Mystery, or Fairy Tale. (Note: Don't determine the type of
story first because that tends to influence the creative input of the
players.) Let everyone dump their slips of
paper (they folded them of course) into the proper bowls. Somehow, (dice, flip coin,
whatever...) determine who goes first, then second, third and so on. Each
person will pull one slip of paper from each bowl and tell their part of the
story using the words on the slips they drew. They can be presented in any order as
long as all of them are used. You can change the verb tense if
necessary. For example if you got the verb "Sing" you could use
"sang" "sung" or "singing." It's OK if you draw one of your own
submissions. ( And, if you get stumped it's ok to
ask for help. The only points are the laughs. The winners are everyone!) Here is an example: This will be
Sci-Fi story. The first person starts out the story using the words he has
drawn. Here is an example using each of the first words I came up with: "I've got to DASH" said the
spaceman as he ran out of his HOUSE that was
made of a new SMOOTH aluminum siding that Dupont's main office in PARIS created and
that he bought on sale at the MALL on Pluto. Then the next person continues the
story....till you reach "THE END." You can also make the game
interesting by setting specific rules: 1. All words have to be in one
sentence only. 2. Or, you can use up to 5 different sentences and make one
sentence per word drawn. (This all depends on the number of players and the
time you have.) The hardest spot is to be last
because you have to end the goofiness somehow! Good Luck!
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Here is a poem I wrote a while ago. I was born and raised in a
small town. We had two movie theatres. The oldest one was called the
"State Theatre" and was made in the classical theatre architecture
with fancy decorated walls, velvet chairs, a stage with a real curtain, etc.
After xx years the owners decided they didn't want to run it any more and
sold the property for a parking lot. How sad. :( This building was an
architectural legend and an icon of memories for generations. They remodeled
the other theatre (I know, building and fire codes right? ) into Cinema 1 and
2. Today those have been replaced by Multi-Plex Theatres or whatever. And, I
hate to think what kind of theatre will exist by 2050.
"FAREWELL TO THE STATE" It seems like only yesterday, Maybe it was at that When on Friday or Saturday night It was at the State theatre I sat. As I stayed glued to that velvet seat, By passion, humor or fright, I picked off the old bubble gum That belonged to someone else The previous night. Many, many times I sat there Indulging in that gourmet food (?) While the people behind me Would be acting very rude. Some would be throwing popcorn To all their friends below, While others were madly passionate Providing a great sideshow. There'd be others who were quietly watching Their idols on that gigantic screen, And yet others who were silently thinking, "What does this movie mean?" I will always remember Those beautifully decorated walls, And the smell of freshly popped popcorn That lingered in the halls; Those long, dark, steep stairs That climbed to the top above Where those of us sat Who really were in love. :) Even though the building's gone now, Our memories we shall keep Of those irreplacable two hours we had For only $1.25 each. We still can go to the movies For we have something new They've divided you in half And now call it Cinema 1 and 2. Progress comes and so some things must go All in their due time; But there's one thing that hasn't changed yet, There's still that long, long line! (Sheila Cicchi 1977) |
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