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| My Gonads Roar: The twisted world of anagrams – from pop idols to celebrity chefs by Richard Napier |
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What's in a name? A few vowels and some consonants – or a whole new identity just waiting to burst free? In My Gonads Roar, expert wordsmith Richard Napier rearranges hundreds of famous names to create a parallel universe – like the world we know, but funnier, ruder, and much more vitriolic. It's a place where Jeremy Clarkson (Only Cars Jerk Me), Britney Spears (Best PR in Years), Gordon Ramsay (My Gonads Roar) and even Princess Anne (Nice Spanners) appear as you have never seen them before.
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| Anagram: Webster's Timeline History, 1347-2007 by Philip Parker |
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Webster's timelines are comprehensive in scope and in the case of this book, the focus is on anagrams. This book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Anagram when it is used in proper noun form.a
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| Anagrams: For Crosswords and All Word Games by Chambers |
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This major new edition of Chambers Anagrams is an utterly indispensable aid for all lovers of crosswords, word games, Scrabble and television programmes like Countdown. The solution to even the trickiest anagram can be found in seconds – just rearrange the letters into alphabetical order and look them up as you would in a dictionary.
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| Of Anagrams by Henry Benjamin Wheatley |
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A monograph treating the history of anagrams from the earliest ages to the present time; with an introduction, containing numerous specimens of macaronic poetry, punning mottoes, rhopalic, shaped, equivocal, Lyon, and echo verses, alliteration, acrostics, lipograms, chronograms, logograms, palindromes, bouts rimés...
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| Fun-with-words.com > Anagrams Books > Biblia Anagrammatica |
| Biblia Anagrammatica: or the Anagrammatic Bible by Walter Begley |
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"A literary curiosity gathered from unexplored sources and from books of the greatest rarity. To all scholars bouquineurs, bouquinistes bibliophiles and bibliographers whose frequent delight it is to leave the beaten track of learning and to wander at their own sweet will into the by-paths and hidden nooks of literature, I dedicate this work begun with joyful expectation continued with increasing pleasure and ended with regret". Biblia Anagrammatica is a comprehensive volume including The Lord's Prayer in Seven Anagrams and The Magnificat in Three Anagrams. A portion of this book is in Latin.
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| Fun-with-words.com > Anagrams Books > The Great Show-And-Tell Disaster |
| The Great Show-And-Tell Disaster by Mike Reiss and Mike Cressy (Illustrator) |
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What has made BRIAN into a BRIAN and turned poor KRISTEN into a STINKER? When a young inventor named Ned realises he doesn't have anything for show-and-tell, he whips up something unique from the odds and ends in his closet. The Result is a device that scrambles the letters in a word, changing the object into something else entirely. It's bad enough that he changes his AUNT into a TUNA and the PEAS and GRAPES at the local grocer's into APES with PAGERS, but when he uses his device on his classmates and his unsuspecting teacher, he pushes things too far. Following a BUS ride (well a SUB ride actually) and a disastrous field trip to an art museum, Ned realises that he hasn't been kind. So putting his inventive mind to work, he comes up with an ingenious solution to fix all the trouble he's caused.
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| Fun-with-words.com > Anagrams Books > Mind Ticklerz Word Games |
| Mind Ticklerz Word Games: 750 Scramblers, Anagrams, Acrostics & More by Charles Timmerman |
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The word wonder himself, Charles Timmerman, offers readers a diverse selection of games that is sure to entertain. Readers can work to figure out patterns, take hints from mystifying clues, and fill in the missing pieces. Featuring word games like chronograms, scramblers, and anagrams for varying abilities, this game collection challenges readers to: decode famous quotes like: To err is human, to forgive divine. - Alexander Pope; decipher anagrams of famous names like: Hug Gores Web; name that phobia like: Apiophobia; and more! With hundreds of different word games presented to readers at once, this compilation is sure to encourage puzzlers to have fun while they try their hands at something new.
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| Fun-with-words.com > Anagrams Books > The Anagrammed Bible |
| The Anagrammed Bible: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon by Richard Brodie and Michael Keith |
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In this unique book, three complete books of the King James Version Bible are rendered as verse-by-verse anagrams, with the letters in each verse rearranged to form a different text having more or less the same meaning. Rich in literary and cultural allusions, it also holds the world record for the longest sustained work of anagramming in English (about 95,000 letters). Truly an anagrammatic tour-de-force! The authors of The Anagrammed Bible are both regular contributors to the alt.anagrams newsgroup, and Mike Keith is webmaster of the Word Ways site (Word Ways is the Journal of Recreational Linguistics). This book contains anagrams in many languages, mostly Latin.
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| Fun-with-words.com > Anagrams Books > The Anagram Dictionary |
| The Anagram Dictionary by Micheal Curl |
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This unique compilation lists approximately 20,000 words (including proper names) arranged in alphabetical order with all their known anagrams. It is an essential tool for any crossword enthusiasts, Scrabble players and addicts of all kinds of word games. the book also includes a brief history of anagrams from the ancient Greeks to the present day and explains why they came to be invested with mystical properties. The Anagram Dictionary makes a wonderful gift for word-lovers everywhere.
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| Fun-with-words.com > Anagrams Books > Palindromes and Anagrams |
| Palindromes and Anagrams by Howard W. Bergerson |
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Howard Bergerson's Palindromes and Anagrams is an important book in the world of anagrams. The author is a former editor of Word Ways and so the book is fairly comprehensive. It contains an excellent introduction to multi-word anagrams as well as a list of over one thousand examples mostly drawn from pre-1930 sources.
It also covers several other subjects related to wordplay including Palindromes, Palindromic Poetry and Vocabularyclept Poetry (using the words of one poem to create another).
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| Fun-with-words.com > Anagrams Books > Elvis Lives |
| Elvis Lives: And Other Anagrams by Jon Agee |
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Jon Agee has produced another gem! This collection of over sixty anagrams is illustrated in Agee's characteristic pen-and-ink cartoon style. The anagrams themselves are brilliant, although not all original: Nudist colony = no untidy clothes, alien forms = life on mars and Albert Einstein = ten elite brains. But it is the pictures that make this book what it is; every single one offers hilarity to a degree that will have you smiling long after you have put the book down. Elvis Lives comes just as highly recommended as Jon Agee's other offerings (on palindromes and oxymorons); he clearly has wordplay in his blood.
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| Fun-with-words.com > Anagrams Books > Warm Voices Rearranged |
| Warm Voices Rearranged: Anagram Record Reviews by Brandan Kearney and Gregg Turkington |
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With its appropriate anagram title Warm Voices Rearranged: Anagram Record Reviews presents a compendium of witty wordplay from the world of classic rock and pop music. There are almost six hundred entries arranged in order of artist. Both the artists' names and the titles of their albums are anagrammed to form apt criticisms of the pieces. Brandan Kearney and Gregg Turkington are clearly masters of their art. A good many of the anagrams in this book are wonderfully accurate in relation to the artists and albums anagrammed. Virtually every record review in the volume is negative but the authors explain that this is not their fault: "There is much to be said for the view of some sculptors, that their effort is not to shape a block of marble into a man, but to release the man trapped within the stone. Anagrams are not much different; one’s task is not to create, but to find something that already exists." The foreword of the book gives an interesting view of anagrams and their mystical connections. All in all this is an entertaining read, perfect for dipping into when you need a laugh. It's a must for any lover of words or music.
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