*smile*

[beetiger]

I feel a lot better now. Thank you for all of the pets.

I used the letter links to spell out "plethora" for Rhys, and hung it on his playmat. He pulled off half of it and started doing a little wiggly dance. I wsn't sure quite what it was but then I looked in his hand and realized it must be a "hora".

Then I used the links to spell "diaper" for him. bard_bloom came home and looked at the toy and said, "Repaid? What, are you teaching him about finances?" O ye wordplayers and linguists, is there a special name for a word that spells another word backwards? Also, do you know any other good ones (without any duplicate letters) that I should make for the baby to play with?

Come to think of it, that's another one. pets/step. In the area I grew up in there was a store called "Pets Pets Pets" but we always called it "Pets Pets Step" because the sign looked like this:

P----------S
E--------T
T------E
S----P
PETS

Tonight bard_bloom has to go out and do Important Ritual Stuff, so baby and I are home alone. Bwah hah hah. I hope he goes to sleep early, I'm going to eat popcorn and watch a DVD, woo hoo hoo.

Art Garfunkel got busted for pot. That's kind of a bummer, since I was listening to his kids' album at the time I found out. On the other hand, the fine is $100, which is less than I paid for the ticket to his last concert, which had a lot of other people at it, so I guess it's okay.

Um, I think I better stop now.

Comments

[kai-ta-loipa.livejournal.com]

Some people use "anadrome" (anagram + palindrome) but that isn't a grammatically recognized word, and I believe it is also the French word for a type of fish. I'm pretty sure that there is no term for a word that spells another when reversed; it is simply a type of anagram. (It would actually make more sense if the former were the definition, because "anagram" means "to write backward".)

star -> rats, live -> evil, now -> won, net -> ten, not -> ton.... I can't think of any others offhand, but playing Text Twist on Yahoo! games usually produces several. :)