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What is the term for a sequence of letters that spells a word backwards and forwards, e.g., 'repaid' backwards is 'diaper'.
I know that a palindrome spells the same word backwards and forwards, but this is a different situation.
Can anyone help?
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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well, it's a type of anagram (reverse anagram?), for one... - ron o.but the *artificial term that's been coined for the concept is Semordnilap (palindromes reversed), a word or phrase that spells a different word or phrase backwards. link
Last edited by tsuwm; 12/07/2008 9:46 PM. Reason: being more responsive now
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stranger
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That's clever! Who coined this artificial term? Teop? Reniocdrow?
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