1330: Semordnilaps Aug 2, 2018

People are naturally very good at spotting patterns without even trying too much. In addition to all of the anagrams, palindromes, and other such patterns, there is the so-called 'semordnilap'; these are words with a different meaning when spelt backwards, and the name was chosen by Martin Gardiner as it it the reverse of 'palindromes'. An example of this is the word 'stressed', which is 'desserts' spelled backward, and of course 'semordnilap' is a semordnilap itself. Comment some of your own favorites.
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