Thursday, September 18, 2008

Word Woman

Welcome to another mind-bending installment of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! Your brain is meant to last a lifetime, so keep it in good working order with life-long learning. Now, let's warm up those memory cells with the Word of the Week:

Anagram: (ann-a-gram) [noun] The rearrangement of the letters of a word or sentence to form a new word, as ward from draw or stare down from don't swear. -- "The New York Times Everyday Reader's Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, Mispronounced Words", Laurence Urdang, Ed., New York Times Book Company, 1972.

Example: I am a librarian is an anagram for I am a brain (liar!). Hmmm, I wonder if that's significant?

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