The world, overcrowded and jostling itself with all of its masculine calumnies....
I found the best anagram in English (2017)
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Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#42https://wordsmith.org/anagram/ is nice for finding multi-word anagrams, and it has a hall of fame link also.
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#43That was pretty good for a one-word anagram. Back in the 1990s I wrote a program that generated anagrams for longer phrases and I was surprised to find these prescient ones: Saddam Hussein = He damns Saudis Charles Manson = Slasher con man David Letterman = Dead mitral vent Mary Jo Kopechne = My joke chaperon * Benito Mussolini = So, I bout Leninism Lee Harvey Oswald = Oe, why ever Dallas? * * "Chaperon" is a valid a…
Clint Eastwood = Old West Action is still my favorite serendiptious anagram. I also like the mathematically correct ELEVEN PLUS TWO = TWELVE PLUS ONE especially because it's also an numeric anagram 11 + 2 = 12 + 1
And it’s 13 letters long
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#44Some of my favorite pairs from the big list: misrelation / orientalism; superintended / unpredestined; incorporate / procreation (don't mind if i do!); predators / teardrops (a cause and effect); counteridea / reeducation (a bit synonymous); streamlined / derailments (quite opposite!); truculent / unclutter; colonialist / oscillation; renavigate / vegetarian; persistent / prettiness; paternoster / penetrators (hmm);…
Also "Xenoparasite Exasperation" - would have made a great title for a 1960s/70s Sci-Fi B movie...
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#45One of the longest anagrams I know that doesn't involve obscure medical words is "astronomers" and "moon starers." Both of these phrases contain the same letters but in a different order, making them anagrams of each other. This anagram contains 11 letters and is quite interesting, as both phrases relate to looking up at the night sky and studying celestial bodies. ChatGPT
The wordsmith link in my other comment tells me that one is a triple on that theme:
astronomers = moon starers = no more stars
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#46That was pretty good for a one-word anagram. Back in the 1990s I wrote a program that generated anagrams for longer phrases and I was surprised to find these prescient ones: Saddam Hussein = He damns Saudis Charles Manson = Slasher con man David Letterman = Dead mitral vent Mary Jo Kopechne = My joke chaperon * Benito Mussolini = So, I bout Leninism Lee Harvey Oswald = Oe, why ever Dallas? * * "Chaperon" is a valid a…
Ronald Wilson Reagan = Insane Anglo Warlord
Also "Orwellian radon snag"
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#47Some of my favorite pairs from the big list: misrelation / orientalism; superintended / unpredestined; incorporate / procreation (don't mind if i do!); predators / teardrops (a cause and effect); counteridea / reeducation (a bit synonymous); streamlined / derailments (quite opposite!); truculent / unclutter; colonialist / oscillation; renavigate / vegetarian; persistent / prettiness; paternoster / penetrators (hmm);…
in French we have chien (dog) / niche (doghouse)
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ronald Wilson Reagan = Insane Anglo Warlord
Dick Cavett, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/04/style/dick-cavett-intervi... > I guess I’ll be known for nothing more than being the man who realized that “Spiro Agnew” was “grow a penis.” Gore Vidal said, “It could be ‘grow a spine,’ too, but yours is better.” Boy, they're really socking it to that Spiro Agnew guy again.
His pal Richard Milhous Nixon = Nix Hanoi child rumors
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#49That was pretty good for a one-word anagram. Back in the 1990s I wrote a program that generated anagrams for longer phrases and I was surprised to find these prescient ones: Saddam Hussein = He damns Saudis Charles Manson = Slasher con man David Letterman = Dead mitral vent Mary Jo Kopechne = My joke chaperon * Benito Mussolini = So, I bout Leninism Lee Harvey Oswald = Oe, why ever Dallas? * * "Chaperon" is a valid a…
I did Wikipedia article titles and found: Atlantic casino resort spa / Carter assassination plot
That would make an excellent 'not to be confused with'.
Re: I found the best anagram in English (2017)
#50My personal favourite is that an anagram of Banach-Tarski is Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski.