Last September as I drove south from Minnesota to Northeast Mississippi for the winter, I listened to a lot of Public Radio. One program introduced a fascinating aspect of words new to me. Synanagrams are Synonymous Anagrams, words formed by rearranging the letters of another word, such as star to arts. I had noticed several similar linguistic oddities in life and noted a few word pairs that are interesting when reversed (Wolf and Flow, Star and Rats) But Paul Anthony Jones on his site Haggard Hawks demonstrates that some words can be anagrammed to complex synonymous words. Examples include enraged restructured to angered, or statement to testament. Such pairs are called synanagrams. (I love the very sound of that word and know my logophile friends will, too.) Read more at https://www.haggardhawks.com/single-post/2017/09/11/+Synanagram
The November 6, 2017 broadcast on www.waywordradio.org also introduced antigrams, an anagram variety in which the letters of one word are rearranged to create its opposite. Examples include united and untied, and the word forty-five which anagrams to over fifty. Enjoy the full episode at
https://www.waywordradio.org/2017/11/6/
Which word phenomena do you know and love? One of my favorites is the word immoral becoming immortal by the simple addition of the Greek letter “Tau” shaped like the Tau cross.
Listen. Observe. Communicate. I consider words and the use of words one of the most wonderful gifts on our planet.
I love words and learned some new ones, anagrams, antigrams, and synanagrams. Read this word fun (and complexity) and share your thoughts and favorite words.