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Mirror writing. Mirror writing is formed by writing in the direction that is the reverse of the natural way for a given language, such that the result is the mirror image of normal writing: it appears normal when reflected in a mirror. It is sometimes used as an extremely primitive form of cipher. A common modern usage of mirror writing can be ...
An ambigram is a calligraphic composition of glyphs (letters, numbers, symbols or other shapes) that can yield different meanings depending on the orientation of observation. [2][3] Most ambigrams are visual palindromes that rely on some kind of symmetry, and they can often be interpreted as visual puns. [4]
Anadrome. An anadrome[citation needed] (also emordnilap, [1] semordnilap[2] and levidrome[a]) is a word that has its spelling derived by reversing the spelling of another word. It is therefore a special type of anagram. There is a long history of names being coined as ananyms of existing words or names for entities related to the thing named by ...
An animation illustrating the anagrammatical origin of the name of the Florida town El Jobean. These are geographic anagrams and anadromes. Anagrams are rearrangements of the letters of another name or word. Anadromes (also called reversals or ananyms) are other names or words spelled backwards. Technically, a reversal is also an anagram, but ...
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as madam or racecar, the date " 22/02/2022 " and the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama ". The 19-letter Finnish word saippuakivikauppias (a soapstone vendor), is the longest single-word palindrome in everyday use ...
If done correctly, all letters were of the same height, and a flat surface of type was created. The form was placed in a press and inked, and then printed (an impression made) on paper. [3] Metal type read backwards, from right to left, and a key skill of the compositor was their ability to read this backwards text.
The Four Loves is a 1960 book by C. S. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian and philosophical perspective through thought experiments. [1] The book was based on a set of radio talks from 1958 which had been criticised in the U.S. at the time for their frankness about sex.
Tennōji Station in 1938. Horizontal writing from left to right is becoming popular. Signs for “砂川遊園” and “ハイキング割引” are written horizontally from left to right. However, the sign for “阪和食堂” is written horizontally in the traditional right-to-left style. Other vertically written signs also stand out.