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#196932 - 02/03/11 04:46 AM Lewis Carroll anagram
zeroid stranger Registered: 02/03/11 Posts: 3 Loc: The Netherlands	Some say that the anagram 'eleven plus two = twelve plus one" is due to Lewis Carroll. Can anyone supply the exact reference, please?
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#196934 - 02/03/11 07:11 AM Re: Lewis Carroll anagram [Re: zeroid]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13803	I've learned one interesting thing. An anagram of this sort, where the anagram and the original are identical in meaning, is called an anugram(!). I couldn't find anything to suggest that this particular anugram is due to either Lewis Carroll or Charles Dodgson.
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#196938 - 02/03/11 09:43 AM eleven plus two.. [Re: Faldage]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10538 Loc: this too shall pass	okay, this is widely quoted as an example of an 'anugram' (and I note that Anu glosses it in his anagrams odds & ends with not so much as a hint of explanation or even a smirk). but, while not having done any extended research, I didn't note any *other examples.
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#196939 - 02/03/11 10:13 AM Re: eleven plus two.. [Re: tsuwm]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10538 Loc: this too shall pass	here are some "clever" anagrams, some of which may be true: clever? true?? the comments to this list include claims for origin/dates, and one such claim is this: Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one. Melvin O. Wellman, 1948 here's some support for the Wellman claim: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-118185171.html anyone care to verify the following? To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. = In one of the Bard’s best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten. Edited by tsuwm (02/03/11 10:21 AM)
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#196956 - 02/03/11 04:02 PM Re: Lewis Carroll anagram [Re: Faldage]
zeroid stranger Registered: 02/03/11 Posts: 3 Loc: The Netherlands	Is called an 'anugram' by whom? Not me, and I think I'm entitled to an opinion. The following two Spanish anagrams are my own: uno + catorce = cuatro + once (1 + 14 = 4 + 11) and dos + trece = tres + doce (2 + 13 = 3 + 12)[first pub. in Word Ways, Feb 1992, Vol 25, No 1]. But I would still like to know who is responsible for two + eleven = one + twelve.
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#196957 - 02/03/11 04:07 PM Re: Lewis Carroll anagram [Re: zeroid]
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10538 Loc: this too shall pass	one is left to assume, then, that you don't buy Wellman?!
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#196958 - 02/03/11 04:52 PM Re: eleven plus two.. [Re: tsuwm]
olly old hand Registered: 12/18/06 Posts: 956 Loc: Auckland, New Zealand	anyone care to verify the following? its all here tsuwm = Hamlets wit rules
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#196961 - 02/03/11 09:06 PM Re: eleven plus two.. [Re: olly]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11613 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	OMG! OLLY! You are WONderful, sir! Hands down winnah and hats off to you!
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#196980 - 02/04/11 05:45 AM Re: eleven plus two.. [Re: tsuwm]
zeroid stranger Registered: 02/03/11 Posts: 3 Loc: The Netherlands	Okay Joe, many thanks for the link.
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#197007 - 02/04/11 10:27 PM Re: eleven plus two.. [Re: zeroid]
wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/06/01 Posts: 6785 Loc: Worcester, MA	minimalist anugram: YEA = AYE
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