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The well known phrase “History repeats itself” is an anagram (a word or phrase made by using the letters of another word or phrase in a different order) of “Years profile this test”
“Ronald Reagan” is an anagram of “A darn long era”
“George Herbert Walker Bush” is an anagram of “Huge Berserk Rebel Warthog”
“Margaret Thatcher” is an anagram of “That great charmer”
“Clint Eastwood” is an anagram of “Old West Action”
“Madam Curie” is an anagram of “Radium came”
“Disraeli” is an anagram of “I lead, Sir”
“Tom Cruise” is an anagram of “So I'm Cuter”
“Alec Guinness” is an anagram of “Genuine Class”
“Raiders of the Lost Ark” is an anagram of “Ford, the Real Star, is OK”
”The Towering Inferno” is an anagram of “Not Worth Fire Engine”
“The Silence of the Lambs” is an anagram of “The Con Bites Male Flesh”
“Eleven plus two” is an anagram of “twelve plus one”
“Dormitory” is an anagram of “Dirty Room”
“Dictionary” is an anagram of “Indicatory”
“A telescope” is an anagram of “To see place”
“Slot Machines” is an anagram of “Cash Lost in'em”
“The Railroad Train” is an anagram of “Hi! I Rattle and Roar”
“Christmas tree” is an anagram of “Search, Set, Trim”
“A Decimal Point” is an anagram of “I'm a Dot in Place”
“Debit card” is an anagram of “Bad Credit”
“Mark Knopfler the guitarist and lead singer with Dire Straits” is an anagram of “A first-rate plonker! He wails, makes a right turgid, strident din”
Dire Straits most famous single was Sultans of Swing
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“Spiderman” is an anagram of “P.S. I'm a nerd”
“Postman Pat” is an anagram of “Stamp Panto”
“Goldilocks and the Three Bears” is an anagram of “Her snack good as her little bed” and “Girl had cereals, then took beds”
“Traditional Italian Food” is an anagram of “radiation, toil, fat and oil!”
Spaghetti Bolognese
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“Semolina” is an anagram of “Is No Meal”
Semolina Bread
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Some of the most famous words in English literature come from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
"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."
An anagram of this sentence is:
"In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."
“Bedtime story” is an anagram of “Most tired. Bye!”
The following quote by Kurt Vonnegut: “Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.” is an anagram of “A masquerade can cover a sense of what is real to deceive us; to be unjaded and not lost, we must, then, determine truth.”
The following quote by Oscar Wilde: ”There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.” is an anagram of “Wilde died broken, beaten 'n' total nut. Hate being sunk in that rotten gaol. Shh, gay is taboo.”
The following quote by Neil Armstrong: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Is an anagram of “A thin man ran; makes a large stride; left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!”
Longest Palindrome: The longest known palindrome – a word that reads the same backwards or forwards – in any language is the 19-letter word saippuakivikauppias, which is Finnish for "a dealer in lye", meaning a seller of soap stone. The longest palindrome in the Oxford English Dictionary is the 12-letter tattarrattat, a nonce word (invented for a particular event or occasion) meaning rat-a-tat. The Irish author James Joyce used the word in Ulysses (1922): "I knew his tattarrattat at the door."
Longest Word In English With Each Letter Twice: "Unprosperousness", at 16 letters long, is the longest word in the English language in which each letter occurs at least twice. In the word "Sestettes", a musical term meaning pieces of music for six voices, each letter appears three times.
Shortest Word In English With All Five Vowels: "Eunoia", at six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels. Taken from the French, it means "of well mind" and indicates a stable mental state, although another interpretation of the word is "beautiful thinking". It is also the title of a novel by the poet Christian Bok, in which each chapter is written using only one vowel. There are many seven-letter words with this property, including "adoulie", "douleia", "eucosia", "eulogia", "eunomia", "eutopia", "miaoued", "moineau", "sequoia", and "suoidea". Note: The word iouea is a genus of Cretaceous fossil sponges, although as scientific word not in common usage, it is not eligible for consideration.
Longest English Word Consisting Only Of Vowels: "Euouae", at six letters long, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and the word with the most consecutive vowels. It is a medieval musical term that indicates the vowels of the syllables of "seculorum Amen," which ends the Latin hymn "Gloria Patri".
Longest Monosyllabic English Words: "Scraunched", meaning to crush or crush noisily, and the archaic word "strengthed", each 10 letters long, are the longest English words that are only one syllable long. There are more 9-letter words: "scratched", "screeched", "scrounged", "squelched", "straights", and "strengths".
“A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss” is an anagram of “Stroller on Go, Amasses Nothing”
MALI is the only country whose name is an anagram of the capital city of another country - LIMA, Peru.
AFGHANISTAN and KYRGHISTAN, (as well as TUVALU) are the only countries with three consecutive letters in their names.
QAZAQ (an alternative spelling of "Kazakh") not only consists of alternating vowels and consonants, but is also a palindrome (a word or group of words that is the same whether you read it forwards from the beginning or backwards from the end).
The following are all board game-related puns (an amusing use of a word or phrase which has several meanings or which sounds like another word):
He gave up playing chess, and went on to a checkered career.
The price of chess sets has gone up across-the-board.
Is someone who sells old chess pieces a pawn broker?
Those interested only in board games at Christmas might just be chess nuts roasting by an open fire.
Checkers was invented starting at square one.
“The cockroach” is an anagram of “Cook, catch her”
“Butterfly” is an anagram of “Flutter-by”
“A Domesticated Animal” is an anagram of “Docile, as a man tamed it”
“An endangered species” is an anagram of “See a race's end pending”
”Endangered species” is an anagram of “See creeping end ... sad”
The following sources are used on this page: Anagram Genius, Wordsmith, Word Oddities, Pun of the Day and Guinness World Records.
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