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An animation of the anadrome of wolf and flow.. An anadrome [1] [2] [3] [4] [a] is a word or phrase whose letters can be reversed to spell a different word or phrase ...
Anadromes (also called reversals or ananyms) are other names or words spelled backwards. Technically, a reversal is also an anagram, but the two are derived by different methods, so they are listed separately.
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...
A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.
The post 26 Palindrome Examples: Words and Phrases That Are the Same Backwards and Forwards appeared first on Reader's Digest. Palindrome words are spelled the same backward and forward.
A reverse dictionary is a dictionary alphabetized by the reversal of each entry: stock (kcots) diestock (kcotseid) restock (kcotser) livestock (kcotsevil) Before computers, reverse dictionaries were tedious to produce. The first computer-produced was Stahl and Scavnicky's A Reverse Dictionary of the Spanish Language, in 1974. [1]
Backwards may also refer to: Anadrome, a term created from another word spelled backwards "Backwards" , episode of sci-fi TV sitcom Red Dwarf. Backwards, a novel based on the episode; Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia, 1984 American TV program "Backwards" (Rascal Flatts song), a 2006 country music song on Me and My Gang
An upside-down interrobang (combining ¿ and ¡, Unicode character: ⸘), suitable for starting phrases in Spanish, Galician and Asturian—which use inverted question and exclamation marks—is called an "inverted interrobang" or a gnaborretni (interrobang spelled backwards), but the latter is rarely used. [17]