Ashwin Sanghi

The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there's an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.

Indian Author

Homer Hickam

Interestingly, 'October Sky' is an anagram of 'Rocket Boys', the same letters just moved around. This was discovered by director Joe Johnston using an anagram program on his computer.

American Author

Christopher Hitchens

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.

Douglas Adams

I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.

English Writer

Anagrams are often used in puzzles and games for entertainment.

Word Play

Creating anagrams can be a way to exercise your brain and improve vocabulary.

Cognitive Exercise

Authors may use anagrams to add depth to character names or to hide meanings.

Literary Device

Anagramming tests your creativity in finding meaning in new word arrangements.

Creative Thinking

Anagramming shows the flexibility of language, where letters form multiple words.

Language Flexibility

Anagramming can lead to surprising connections between words.

Discovery and Surprise

 who showed them six big piles of anagram puzzles. The kids got to choose which pile of anagrams they would like to do, and they even got to choose which marker they would write their answers with. When the second group of children came in, they were brought to the same room, shown the same anagrams,

Sheena Iyengar: The art...

 anagram in the same way when you slide down and escalate and you gather what kind of thing and your center of gravity is all over the place that's what happened to those not smooth at all like at all so there's no way you could do it in rubber shoes that's a fact

Rubber, Meet Road PIPE Man...

 which markers to write their answers with now when the third group came in they were told that their anagrams and their markers had been chosen by their mothers in reality the kids who were told would