LipogramA written work composed of words chosen to avoid the use of one or more letters. Ouch! That mama roo is going to need a pouchlift after carrying around that brood!Ħ. Example: encourage contains courage, cog, cur, urge, core, cure, nag, rag, age, nor, rage and enrage. Kangaroo word or marsupialThis refers to a word carrying another word within it (without transposing any letters). (Do you get the feeling that fans of word play love to make up words?) Here's a semordnilap dieters can relate to: Stressed is desserts backwards.ĥ. SemordnilapA word or name that spells a different word backwards (notice what semordnilap spells backwards). Semordnilaps (coined by Martin Gardner in 1961) are also known as backronyms, volvograms, heteropalindromes, semi-palindromes, half-palindromes, reversgrams, mynoretehs, recurrent palindromes, reversible anagrams, word reversals, or anadromes. Need more palindromes? Find a huge stash here.Ĥ. Example: A declaration facetiously attributed to Napoleon, "Able was I ere I saw Elba." Weird Al Yankovic's song "Bob" spoofs Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" using a slew of palindromes. PalindromeA word, sentence, or longer written work that reads the same backwards. You may remember this one from typing class: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy sleeping dog," but Willard Espy came up with a shorter and more interesting one: "Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs." An abundance of pangrams, using some very obscure words or initials can be found here.ģ. PangramA phrase or sentence containing all 26 letters of the alphabet (ideally repeating as few letters as possible).
#Words backwards skin
IsogramA word in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once. Dimitri Borgmann's longest example: dermatoglyphics, the study of skin markings or patterns on fingers, hands, and feet, and its application, especially in criminology.Ģ. But what do you call a word that spells another word backwards, or a word that looks the same upside down? When terms for these orthographic puzzlers didn't exist, logolologists (such as the authors of the books listed below) were happy to invent some. The Shut Up! opening of this video refrenced the end of the classic Smosh video, How Not to Act on a First Date, back in 2006.If you love word play, you probably know that a word - or longer piece of writing - that reads the same forward and backward is called a palindrome. PA: Andrea Santana, Beau Miller, Brandie Rovito Wardrobe: Felicia Cowley & Feleicia Martin Produced by: Anthony Padilla, Ian Hecox, Ryan Todd Written by: Anthony Padilla, Ian Hecox, Ryan Finnerty Oh, er that doesn't work because it's a palindromeĮr, you can just say the word boob instead Yeah can you just say it, since you are one and it would be kinda wrong for me to say it It's just, y' know there's a whole 'history' behind the word Guys, it's not offensive if you say it backwards This little boy got bitten by a rattlesnakeĪnd he was gonna die if I didn't suck the venom out I don't really get along with his mom very well though So we came up with a super clever way to say bad words without anyone knowing To the point where people give us weird looks when we say curse words in public So we came up with a super clever way to say bad words without anyone knowing - All you gotta do is say them BACKWARDS. to the point where people give us weird looks when we say curse words in public. There's a problem we need to address: the world is getting more and more P.C.
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