458: Anagram Mar 10, 2016

Anagrams are words out of which the rearranged letters make a new word, or set of words. For instance all of the letters in, "twelve plus one" are the same as in "eleven plus two" is an anagram. These words are entirely random, so when coincidences such as the fact that Japan's former capital city, Kyoto, and present capital, Tokyo, are anagrams of each other, or the Kingdom of Java's former capital, Kartasura and then later Surakarta (now moved to Surabaya) are anagrams, it is nothing more than luck. Less coincidental is the way that people often like to seek them out for fun, such as Louis XIII, who appointed a Royal Anagrammatist for entertainment.