The letters in the word sterilize can be rearranged to form the synangram Listerize. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Sterilize and Listerize as Synonymous Anagrams”
I have another synanogram for you. That’s a synonymous anagram. You take the letters of
One word and mix them up. This requires a little bit of background. If you think about
Joseph Lister, the 19th century English surgeon who pioneered…
As in Listerine.
Yes, yes. He pioneered antiseptic medicine, right?
And so listerize is a word that means to make something sterile, like sterilize.
Whoa, what?
That’s cool.
I wonder how many of these we can make or our listeners can make, right?
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