PalindromeA word, sentence, or longer written work that reads the same backwards.
You may remember this one from typing class: "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy sleeping dog," but Willard Espy came up with a shorter and more interesting one: "Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs." An abundance of pangrams, using some very obscure words or initials can be found here.ģ. PangramA phrase or sentence containing all 26 letters of the alphabet (ideally repeating as few letters as possible). IsogramA word in which no letter of the alphabet occurs more than once. Dimitri Borgmann's longest example: dermatoglyphics, the study of skin markings or patterns on fingers, hands, and feet, and its application, especially in criminology.Ģ. But what do you call a word that spells another word backwards, or a word that looks the same upside down? When terms for these orthographic puzzlers didn't exist, logolologists (such as the authors of the books listed below) were happy to invent some. If you love word play, you probably know that a word - or longer piece of writing - that reads the same forward and backward is called a palindrome.
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