Online Anagram Generator Makes Wordplay Easy
Hundreds Of Word Combinations At Your Fingertips With Computer Program
POSTED: 12:55 am CDT June 6,
2003
DENVER -- If you love wordplay and you love anagrams -- words that can be rearranged to create other words -- then the Anagram Generator at Wordsmith.org can keep you occupied for hours.
The site lists all of the classic anagrams, like Elvis -- lives or a "dormitory" is "dirty room," but the fun is finding out what other words your name can create (hey, aren't we all vain to some extent?). For example, I plugged in my name and I get "keg in my U.N."There's probably no practical application for this site -- unless you want to write novels with secret codes (like JK Rowling's Tom Marvolo Riddle) or you're looking for a business name or password made up with your name. Nevertheless, it's amazing to see how many different combinations of words can be created in a matter of seconds.The only bad part is that the program limits you between 22 and 24 letters and you have to wade through a long list of junk words to find the gem. You can try the advanced function to filter out the options and find interesting phrases, but it's hit or miss.There are other anagram generators online, and free downloadable programs that allow many more words. (Google even has a subsection for this category). But I found this site to be one of the easiest and quickest to use.The creator of the site, Anu Garg, says, "All life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. They never lie."That may be true, but for some of us who aren't as smart as Lisa Simpson (remember that episode?) we need help in finding that truth.Cory Calhoun didn't need a computer program to create what many experts consider the one of the world's best anagrams. His all-time gem: "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 = In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."
The site lists all of the classic anagrams, like Elvis -- lives or a "dormitory" is "dirty room," but the fun is finding out what other words your name can create (hey, aren't we all vain to some extent?). For example, I plugged in my name and I get "keg in my U.N."There's probably no practical application for this site -- unless you want to write novels with secret codes (like JK Rowling's Tom Marvolo Riddle) or you're looking for a business name or password made up with your name. Nevertheless, it's amazing to see how many different combinations of words can be created in a matter of seconds.The only bad part is that the program limits you between 22 and 24 letters and you have to wade through a long list of junk words to find the gem. You can try the advanced function to filter out the options and find interesting phrases, but it's hit or miss.There are other anagram generators online, and free downloadable programs that allow many more words. (Google even has a subsection for this category). But I found this site to be one of the easiest and quickest to use.The creator of the site, Anu Garg, says, "All life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. They never lie."That may be true, but for some of us who aren't as smart as Lisa Simpson (remember that episode?) we need help in finding that truth.Cory Calhoun didn't need a computer program to create what many experts consider the one of the world's best anagrams. His all-time gem: "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 = In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten."Copyright 2008, Internet Broadcasting. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
