![]() ![]() The Dylan Thomas play Under Milk Wood was set in a Welsh village with a Welsh-looking name, Llareggub. Retsof is now best known for a 1994 salt mine collapse. The little hamlet of Retsof, New York was named for William Foster, owner of a salt mine company there. There's also a big Annapolis summer music festival called Silopanna. In Annapolis, Maryland, there's a little street called Silopanna Road. Sometimes, when you're naming streets, you just run out of ideas. British slang for a young man who is up to no good. It features properly backwards-named characters like Yram (Mary) and Senoj Nosnibor (Robinson Jones). The title of Samuel Butler's 19th century novel lampooning the society of the time was meant to be "nowhere" spelled backwards, but the "h" was moved out of place. The Nacirema ("American" backwards) have become well known for what they tell us about the study of "exotic" cultures.īackwards spelling in the name of satire has a long history. Their culture was founded by a hero named Notgnihsaw, who, in a feat of strength, once threw a piece of wampum over the Pa-To-Mac river. Her next project will have to be an anagram (Pharo?).Ī 1956 anthropology paper by Horace Mitchell Miner examined "body ritual among the Nacirema," an exotic tribe in North America. Oprah has a magazine titled by her first initial ( O), a network named with both her initials (OWN – The Oprah Winfrey Network), and a production company that spells her name backwards (Harpo). The animators modeled the character after Walt Disney himself. The name of the sorcerer in Fantasia is "Disney" spelled backwards. Here are nine words, besides semordnilap, expressly built to be semordnilaps. While there are some semordnilaps that arose by chance (desserts-stressed, diaper-repaid), there are many, like "semordnilap," that were created on purpose, usually to not-so-covertly hint at the words they happen to be reversing. ![]() While a palindrome reads the same way backwards or forwards (otto, kayak), a semordnilap (itself a semordnilap of "palindromes") makes a completely different word when spelled backwards. "Semordnilap" is a word playfully coined by word-game lovers some time in the mid 20th century. ![]()
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