Arensmeier Articles: Anagrams

Anagrams

(Sent by Eilene Williams, Friendsview Retirement Community, Newberg, Oregon.)

An anagram, as you know, is a word or phrase that is made by transposing or rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. The following are exceptionally clever. Someone out there either has way too much time to waste or is deadly at Scrabble.

Dormitory	Dirty Room
Evangelist	Evils Agent
Desperation	A Rope Ends It
The Morse Code	Here Come Dots
Animosity	Is No Amity
Mother-in-law	Woman Hitler
Snooze Alarms	Alas! No More Z’s
Alec Guinness	Genuine Class
Semolina	Is No Meal
The Public Art Galleries	Large Picture Halls, I Bet
A Decimal Point	I’m a Dot in Place
The Earthquakes	That Queer Shake
Eleven Plus two	Twelve Plus One
Contraction	Accord Not In It

This one’s truly amazing:

“To be or not to be: that is the question, whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.”

And the Anagram:

“In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.”

And for the grand finale:

“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

--Neil A. Armstrong

The Anagram:

“A thin man ran; makes a large stride, left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!”