An anadrome[citation needed] (also emordnilap,[1] semordnilap[2] and levidrome[a]) is a word that has its spelling derived by reversing the spelling of another word. It is therefore a special type of anagram. There is a long history of names being coined as ananyms of existing words or names for entities related to the thing named by this subset of anadromes. Note that a levidrome usually spells another, existing word backwards, e.g. pots vs. stop,[6] while an anadrome results in novel letter sequences, such as Canada yielding Adanac (quite common street name in Canadian cities).
- ^ "Is 'Emordnilap' a Real Word?". Snopes. 13 December 2014.
- ^ updated, Arika Okrent last (April 29, 2014). "9 words created by spelling other words backwards". theweek.
- ^ https://fox4kc.com/news/what-is-a-levidrome-merriam-webster-recognizes-new-word-in-honor-of-little-boy/
- ^ "Latest word on 'levidrome': Oxford says it's not ready, but linguist begs to differ". Times Colonist. October 14, 2018.
- ^ "A Victoria 10-year-old created a word for a linguistic oddity. Over the past four years, it's come to mean so much more". Capital Daily.
- ^ "Fox 4".
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