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Let’s Jump on the Word-Game Bandt Wagon
We all know what a palindrome is. Well, I do anyway: a word, phrase or sentence that is spelt the same backward as it is forward. Like ‘reviver’. Or here’s a good one: ‘lepers repel’.
But there is another class of words, at least as interesting as palindromes. They are those that, spelt backwards, deliver a different but valid word. Like doom/mood. Or tool/loot. Or room/moor. Two-syllable instances are more interesting: tuber/rebut, sued/deus, laced/decal, lever/revel.
Does this interesting class of words also have a name, I hear you ask? Yes, they do. They are called bandtograms, named to highlight their essential pointlessness. The examples I have given you are imperfect bandtograms.
Now consider the word ‘drawer’. If you reverse just the first syllable you get ‘warder’. This is called a semibandt. But each of these words, in turn, can be reversed to give a different word – a bandtogram:
drawer/reward to warder/redraw
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