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Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by StrangerInAStrangeLand, May 21, 2017.

  1. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    iceman - cinema

    sword - words

    strop - sport - ports

    Mars - rams

    strap - parts - traps

    phaser - phrase

    anagram - nag a ram

    later - alert

    trail - trial

    dairy - diary

    spies - pies

    lions - loins

    slime - miles - limes - smile

    fires - fries

    tires - tries

    palm - lamp

    swine - wines

    salt - slat

    lost - slot - lots

    stale - tales

    team - meat - mate - tame - meta

    drab - bard


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  3. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    Madam Curie - radium came / listen - silent / scamp - camps / redo - doer - rode / cats - scat / dire - ride / tide - diet / from - form / end - Ned - den / Enid - dine / diem - dime / mite - emit - time / remit - timer - miter / races - cares - scare / blue - lube / reheat - heater / stove - votes / flesh - shelf / herself - reshelf / father - ref hat / Keats - skate - stake - takes - Kate's - steak. / mister - timers / heart - hater / weak - wake / skater - streak - takers / Swede - weeds / danger - gander - ranged / great - grate / bake - beak - smear - reams

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  5. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    A man, a plan, a canal. Panama!

    (It was more relevant to a previous generation.)
     
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  7. karenmansker HSIRI Banned

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    Don't think this is an anagram, but rather a palindrome . . . . . (same to as fro')
     
  8. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    Thanks. An anagram makes a different word or phrase using the same letters.
    Some anagrams are useful in making palindromes.

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  9. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    A palindrome is a special - and more challenging - type of anagram.
     
  10. karenmansker HSIRI Banned

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    NO . . . . . not variants of the same (anagram) . . . . different critters!

    Wikipedia:

    A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as madam or racecar. Sentence-length palindromes may be written when allowances are made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers, such as "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!", "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" or "No 'x' in Nixon".

    An anagram is direct word switch or word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; for example, the word anagram can be rearranged into "nag a ram".
     
  11. gmilam Valued Senior Member

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    Donald Trump - Lord Dampnut
     
  12. DaveC426913 Valued Senior Member

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    Oh my god I must have been tired. You are of course, correct.
     
  13. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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  14. StrangerInAStrangeLand SubQuantum Mechanic Valued Senior Member

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    I do not know how that happened. I meant to put that in the Riddle thread.

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