Jay in Barre, Vermont, asks: If someone is passionate about conservation, they’re called a conservationist, but if someone is passionate about conversation, they’re a conversationalist. Why the extra syllable in conversationalist? This...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski’s puzzle features sentences that include a short word that anagrams to another word, and is defined by yet another word in the sentence. For example, if the clue is I can get no research done because the room is so...
The name Britney Spears anagrams to Presbyterians. The same letters, used once each, produce the name of a Protestant group. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of ““Britney Spears” Anagrams to “Presbyterians”” I’m such...
An antigram is a variety of anagram, in which the letters of one word are rearranged to create its opposite. Examples of antigrams include united and untied, and the word forty-five, which anagrams to over fifty. This is part of a complete episode...
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...
Anagrams are words formed by rearranging the letters of another word, such as star and arts. As Paul Anthony Jones points out on his site Haggard Hawks, some words can be anagrammed to a synonymous word, such as enraged and angered, or statement and...