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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--ananym ananym (AN-uh-nim) noun A name formed by reversing letters of another name, often used as a pseudonym. [From Greek ana- (back) + -onym (name).] Examples: o Talk show host Oprah's production company is named Harpo. o Doctor Seuss (Theodore Geisel) wrote many books under the name Theo LeSieg. o Samuel Butler wrote a satirical novel Erewhon (near reverse of Nowhere). "Rongis was an ananym - so named by an employee of the stagecoach company whose own name was Ali Signor." John McPhee; Rising from the Plains; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1986. This week's theme: words about words. X-Bonus The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and novelist (1811-1896)

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