Subject: Anagrams and palindromes, was Re: Spoilers from TP merchandise
From: twain@blake.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin)
Date: 1990-09-17, 16:15
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1158600046@cdp> forestwatch@cdp.UUCP writes:
> >


> >BOB is an anagram--like DAD it is spelled the same way backwards
> >and forwards.



Sorry to be pedantic, but BOB and DAD are not anagrams but palindromes.
A palindrome is a word, phrase or sentence that reads the same backwards
and forwards, e.g. Able was I ere I saw Elba, or A man, a plan, a 
canal: Panama. 

An anagram is a word or phrase created by reordering another word or 
phrase, such as CHARM = MARCH.

--Barbara 


--
Barbara HlavinReason, an ignis fatuus of the mind,
twain@blake.acs.washington.eduWhich leaves the light of nature, 
U Washington AI-10/Seattle 98195Sense, behind.  -John Wilmot