Wordplay

Anagrams are Fun




Anagrams can be fun.
For example:

1 Can you make one word out of the letters in ' new door? '

Yes.... The letters in newdoor = the letters in oneword


Five different shop name anagrams!


2 When is enough not enough?
When it is one hug......
Everybody knows that one hug is not enough!

3 A triple Anagram

Parental means "pertaining to the influence of a parent."
Paternal means "pertaining to the influence of a father."
Prenatal certainly involves the influence of a mother!


4 A Shakespearian Anagram

               
"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...."

The above is an exact anagram of the following:

" In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies,
Our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts
About how life turns rotten."

5 Here are some examples of words or phrases which provide us with apt anagrams!

An aisle             Is a lane

A decimal point        Im a dot in place

Departed this life        He's left it, Dead: R. I. P.

Desperation              A rope ends it

Disintegration           A rotting inside

Fourth of July            Joyful Fourth

H.M.S. Pinafore         Name for ship

Incomprehensible      Problem in Chinese    

 Metaphysicians        Mystics in a heap

Miscalculation            I call a miscount

The nudist colony       No untidy clothes

Old England               Golden land

The Postmaster-General       He's letter-post manager

Prosperity                   Is property

A shoplifter                 Has to pilfer

Slot machines             Cash lost in 'em

Upholsterers             Restore plush



       
6 Mathematical Anagrams, in English and Spanish

ELEVEN+ TWO = TWELVE + ONE

CATORCE + UNO (14 + 1 ) = ONCE + CUATRO (11+ 4 )

DOCE + TRES ( 12 + 3 ) = TRECE + DOS (13+ 2 )


7 A Latin Anagram from the Bible Story

                

Pilate asked Jesus, prior to His crucifixion, QUID EST VERITAS? ("What is Truth?")

To this Christ made no answer, but the answer is an anagram of the question.
"EST VIR QUI ADEST." (It is the Man who stands before you)

Finally, an anagram of ANAGRAMS is ARS MAGNA, "The Great Art."

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