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#35418
07/12/2001 3:00 PM
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enthusiast
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enthusiast
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Posted a little while back:
Is there a -nym for words that are a different word when read backwards, like "dog" and "god," or "pot" and "top"?
There was an answer but it didn't mention ananym, which is the only word I know for this. In preparing to post this, I researched it and found it's a very obscure word, so probably a recent invention.
It seems to have a specific meaning of a reversed name adopted as a pseudonym.
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#35419
07/12/2001 3:25 PM
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Posts: 13,858
Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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"Ananym" ought to be brought out of obscurity by the word game enthusiasts.
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#35420
07/12/2001 11:15 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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Hey! Finally! a grammar name I can remember without an aide memoire!
Thank you
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#35421
07/13/2001 3:26 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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Wow, wow! I bow to our new High Priestess Pooh-Bah! Live long and prosper!  Now you can assume your place on the Upper Echelon and fill-in for tsuwm while he's gone! 
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#35422
07/14/2001 2:41 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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fill-in for tsuwm while he's gone
Oh my Gawd! Fill in for tsuwm? UM-posssible.
Does this mean I have to resign?
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#35423
07/14/2001 11:45 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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In reply to:
Does this mean I have to resign?
Has anyone else ever noticed that by adding "s" to the middle of "reign" you get "resign"? Now that you're a pooh-bah watch out for stray esses or else one of them could end your reign.
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#35424
07/15/2001 5:03 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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a reversed name adopted as a pseudonym.
For ex., if Oprah used "Harpo"? That kind of thing?
Frankly, the first thing I thought of when I saw this word was that but for one letter, it is the name of Anu's daughter.
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