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Tue 7 Mar, 2006 12:12 am
Could someone out there please tell what the relationship to these tweo words are:
AVON
NOVA
I always seem to stuff up.
Thanks
Melissa
It's a palindrome. The same wors, spelt backwards is palindrome.
So that would make it an ANAGRAM ????
Edam cheese is made backwards.
Okay everyone has lost me now.
So is it an an anagram, homophone or synonym.
PLEASE someone out there please tell me.
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If palindromes are words which are the same spelt backwards, what is the word for a word which is another word spelt backwards?
There is no generally accepted term. The simplest word for such words is something like semi-palindrome or half-palindrome. However, some other suggestions have been made, including the elegant heteropalindrome, the ugly reversgram (or better, reversible anagram), and the outrageous semordnilap!
The sentence 'rats live on no evil star' is full of these semi-palindromes.
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/palindromes
If you have to choose one of the three choices you havr given, choose anagram.
It is palindrome, all palindromes are anagrams.
To answer your question, it is an anagram.
OK Lissy. I have now had a cup of coffee, and the brain is starting to work.
Homophone : Two words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings i.e. "pair" and "pear".
So Avon and Nova don't fit that category.
Anagram : When the letters of a word, or phrase, are jumbled up in order to make another word, or phrase i.e........
Eleven plus two (jumble up the letters, and it becomes)..... Twelve plus one.
Palindrome : A word or phrase which, when spelt backwards, makes another word, or phrase. i.e. Edam (the cheese) = Made.
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