Rearranging letters as anagrams can be an entertaining aged worm (or word game). For example, you can switch around the letters in listen to make the word silent. Dormitory can be rearranged to form dirty room, and Morse code makes here come dots. An even more complicated anagram even works mathematically: eleven plus two can become twelve plus one. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Aged Worm Word Game Two”
You’re listening to A Way with Words, the show about language and how we use it. I’m Grant Barrett.
And I’m Martha Barnette. An anagram is a word or phrase that’s formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase and typically using all the original letters exactly once.
So, for example, the word listen can be rearranged to make the word silent. And we got a great anagram from John Ward in Dallas, Texas. He takes the phrase 11 plus 2 and he anagrams those words and they become 12 plus 1. So it’s 11 plus 2 and 12 plus 1. Both of those add up to 13 and they both have 13 letters.
Oh, that’s so nice. That’s such an excellent aged worm. I mean, word game. Oh, aged worm. Aged worm. It’s an anagram for word game. I guess it is. This is a classic word puzzle type, right? Anagrams?
Yes. Yes. And there are lots and lots and lots of these dormitory, anagrams to dirty room.
Oh yeah, that’s a great one.
Yeah. And I also like the Morse code, anagrams to here come dots.
That’s very good. Well, if you would like to nag a ram with anagrams, you can call us 877-929-9673. Send your favorite anagrams to words@waywordradio.org or share them through our website at waywordradio.org/contact.
