Word Play

As a blogger, you can't help but love words. So if you get a chance, see if you can pick up the small book called Words Fail Me by Teresa Monachino. She finds the inconsistencies and nonsense in the English language. It's quite entertaining. As an example, I like her section on antigrams.

"Whereas anagrams simply transpose the letters in a word to give us a new meaning, antigrams have a more sinister tendency. Rearranging the letters of the words on the left-hand page gives a new word or phrase on the right that opposes or contradicts it."

Some examples:

astronomers	no more stars
funeral	real fun
honestly	on the sly
silent	listen
forty-five	over fifty
medicate	decimate

And my favorite:

elvis

lives

Check it out. It's a fun read and the perfect book for the powder room, if you know what I mean...

-Wes