Re: Anagram FAQ v0.0000001

HenHanna@NewsGrouper <[email protected]> Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:33:07 GMT

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          This was in 1994,   before Reddit,   before WWW


[email protected] (Brown, Devin J.) posted:

> What is an anagram?
> 
> Well, an anagram is a word that is made up of the letters of
> another word, but using the letters in a different order.  For
> example, an anagram for GOD might be DOG, although it does not
> have to be an exact backwards spelling, it simply worked in this
> case.  Take My name for example:
> 
> Devin Josef Brown       An anagram of this would be...
> Swerve, find no job   See?  All the letters are there.  Just add
> spacing and punctuation as you like.
> (thanks Ulf for that anagram of my name)
> 
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