ABSTRACT
According to Webster, an anagram is a transposition of the letters of a word or phrase to form another word or phrase related in meaning to the original. Logophiles have noted that the letters of the word ANAGRAMS can be rearranged into ARS MAGNA, the Latin phrase for “great art.” As evidence of this greatness, consider the two dozen examples that follow. Some were culled from the vast listing found in “Palindromes and Anagrams,” Howard Bergerson’s book published in 1973 by Dover Publications.
EVIL / VILE
ANGERED / ENRAGED
ASTRONOMER / MOONSTARER
MEASURED / MADE SURE
PITTANCE / A CENT TIP
ENDEARMENT / TENDER NAME
DECLARATION / AN ORAL EDICT
DISINTEGRATION / DARN IT, IT IS GONE
PRESBYTERIANS / BEST IN PRAYERS
THE EYES / THEY SEE
INCOME TAXES / EXACT MONIES
GOLD AND SILVER / GRAND OLD EVILS
GRAND FINALE / A FLARING END
ELEVEN + TWO / TWELVE + ONE
THE NUDIST COLONY / NO UNTIDY CLOTHES
ADOLF HITLER / HATED FOR ILL
THE ACTIVE VOLCANOS / CONES EVICT HOT LAVA
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY / SOFT-LIT BEAUTY THERE
CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE / ACTUAL CRIME ISN’T EVINCED
MIGUEL CERVANTES DE SAAVEDRA / GAVE US A DAMNED CLEVER SATIRE
THE AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATION / IT IS ONE AREA RED MAN CAN THRIVE IN
IVANHOE BY SIR WALTER SCOTT / A NOVEL BY A SCOTTISH WRITER
WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE / HE SAW HIS RAGGED CONTINENTALS ROW
THE U.S. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS / IT’S ONLY FOR RESEARCH BUGS
