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Ambigram: a word which can be read just as well mirrored or upside down; Blanagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase and substituting one single letter to produce a new word or phrase; Letter bank: using the letters from a certain word or phrase as many times as wanted to produce a new word or phrase
Natural ambigram palindromes exist, like the words "wow", "malayalam" [138] (Dravidian language), or the biotechnology company Noxxon that possesses a palindromic name associated to a rotational ambigram logo. But some words are natural ambigrams, though not palindromes in the literary acception, like "bud" for example, because b and d are ...
He created his first ambigram, which he called an "upside-down word", in 1972 using the word heaven. [10] [14] By 1980, Langdon claims both he and Stanford graduate student Scott Kim invented ambigrams, albeit separately. Kim called his creations inversions; in 1984, Douglas Hofstadter coined the term ambigram.
The 9-letter word Rotavator, a trademarked name for an agricultural machine, is listed in dictionaries as being the longest single-word palindrome. The 9-letter term redivider is used by some writers, but appears to be an invented or derived term; only redivide and redivision appear in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; the 9-letter word ...
Name Example Notes Afterimage illusion An afterimage or ghost image is a visual illusion involving an image continuing to appear in one's vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased. Afterimage on empty shape (also known as color dove illusion) This type of illusion is designed to exploit graphical similarities. Ambiguous image
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Polski: pl:Ambigram imienia pl:Mahometa i Alego Arabic-script ambigram, where Muhammad محمد upside down is read as `Ali علي, and vice versa. English: [Original description] This image was developed by me on the basis of a calligraphic image presented to me many years ago.
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