The Oregon town names Ragic and Ekoms are anadromes; backwards they spell Cigar and Smoke. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Backward Town Names”
By the way, grant, speaking of anadromes, those words that form different words if they’re spelled backwards, that is the story behind the town of Rajik in Oregon. Actually, I think it’s just maybe a little post office or something, but somebody named Rajik this little area in Oregon for I guess an interest in cigars.
Oh.
I read you get cigar backwards.
Yeah, and apparently there’s some place not that far from there called Eckham’s.
Or at least it was an attempt to get a post office named Eckham’s, which is smoke spelled backwards.
It’s a follow on the cigar.
I see.
Yes.
Just a little further down the rail line.
Yeah, I mean, there are those places.
