Fun with Words What Do You Call a Word That Reads the Same Either Forward Or Backward? a Palindrome

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Palindrome Anagram Did you know what the fear of A palindrome is a word, number or Anagrams are words that have the same palindromes is called? sequence of words that reads the same letters but arranged in a dierent order to Aibohphobia, which is also a forward or backward. For example, race form other meaningful words. Examples: palindrome car. The term "palindrome" is derived “Earth” can be rearranged into “heart”; and from the Greek roots palin meaning “silent” into “listen”. The words "eleven plus "again or back" and dromos meaning two" can be written as "twelve plus one." course, direction, walkway. It was The term 'anagram' comes from the French Aptagram coined by English poet and playwright anagramme which in turn is derived from Ben Jonson in the 17th Century. So, When you rearrange the the Greek ana meaning "back or anew" "pop", "never odd or even" and "808" are letters of a word or phrase to and gram meaning "letter". all palindromes. form a word or phrase that is similar in meaning or that has relevance to the original word or Pangram phrase, it is called an aptagram. Examples: “The eyes” can be “The quick brown fox jumps over the Antigram rearranged into “They see”. lazy dog.” This sentence is a pangram, “Notes” becomes “tones”. Apt, which means a sentence containing all Antigrams are opposite anagrams. An right? the letters of the English alphabet. anagram becomes an antigram when Pangrams have been in use for years to it is opposite in meaning to the teach handwriting and typing, to original term or phrase. display typefaces and to test printers, Examples: The letters of “violence” can Time to play and other equipment. Another example be rearranged into “nice love” and with words of a pangram is: “Five or six big jet planes “funeral” into “real fun”. zoomed quickly by the tower.” Funny, isn't it? 1. Can you come up with a fourletter palindrome? (Clue: a Isogram Ambigram quick look) 2. ______is the antigram for A word that has no letter of the A word that reads the same upside 'united'. alphabet repeated is an isogram. down or when reected is an ambigram. 3. ______(an expert in one's “Ambidextrously”, “dialogue”, It is a kind of visual pun. Examples: subject) is a sevenletter isogram. “uncopyrightable” are isograms. It is also NOON, SWIMS, 1961. The term, coined by 4. ______(back of the neck) is dened as a word in which each letter American scholar Douglas Hofstadter, the anagram of 'pane'. appears the same number of times. comes from the Latin ambi meaning 5. 'School master' is the Examples: “peep”, “intestines” these are "both" + gram meaning "letter or written". aptagram of ______called pair isograms or secondorder Author Dan Brown's hardcover book jacket Answers isograms where each letter occurs twice of Angels & Demons has an ambigram 1. peep; 2. ‘untied’; 3. scholar; 4. exactly. Funnily, “isogram” itself is an designed by American typographer John nape; 5. ‘the classroom’ isogram! Langdon.

A QUEST c Ronaldo, Dybala get Juventus The atom bomb: Quick facts Learn the facts through this short Q and A... back winning on Serie A return Who invented the atom bomb? 20 win over Bologna lifts pressure o Sarri Scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, MILAN, ITALY: Cristiano Ronaldo and backheel ick as Juventus, chasing a “Important victory” including Enrico Fermi and Robert Oppenheimer. Paulo Dybala scored early as Juventus ninth consecutive Scudetto, opened up a AC Milan shrugged o the absence put their Italian Cup nal woes behind fourpoint lead on secondplaced Lazio. of Zlatan Ibrahimovic to sweep past Where was the ﬁrst atom bomb dropped? them with a 20 win over Bologna on “We need condence and this victory Lecce 41 and keep their bid for It was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan and a second Monday to move four points clear of will help us,” said Dybala. European football next season alive as bomb was dropped in nearby Nagasaki. Lazio on top of the Serie A table. “It's not easy to be brilliant right 10man Fiorentina were held 11 by Portuguese star Ronaldo had missed now, we hadn't been playing for a long basement club Brescia. When were they dropped? a penalty in the Italian Cup seminal time.” “It's an important victory,” said The bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, on 6th August, against AC Milan, and drew a blank Lazio travel north to fourthplaced Milan coach Stefano Pioli. AFP 1945. Nagasaki was bombed three days later. in the nal which Juventus lost 42 on Atalanta in Bergamo on Wednesday, penalties to Napoli. looking to keep their bid for a rst Serie Which aircraft was used for the bombings? But the 35yearold made no A title in two decades on track. The American B29 Superfortress, "Enola Gay", dropped mistake in Juventus's rst league game Inter Milan, in third, are nine points the rst bomb. The second too was dropped by a since beating Inter Milan 20 in Turin adrift of Juventus, and next host similar, though not the same aircraft. on March 8. Sassuolo. He converted a spotkick earned by What were the code names of the two bombs? Matthijs de Ligt after 23 minutes for his It's not easy to be "Little Boy" was dropped on Hiroshima and "The Fat 26th goal for the Turin giants in all Man" was dropped on Nagasaki. b brilliant right now, we competitions this season. hadn't been playing for Dybala curled in the second on 36 (Content provided by Amrita Bharati) minutes o a Federico Bernardeschi a long time. GOING UP IN FLAMES The Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were almost completely destroyed by the atom bombs referred to as ‘Little Boy’ and ‘The Fat Man’

A TECH BYTES c What is phishing? Phishing is a type of cyber attack. It tries to steal information such as credit card details, account numbers, and passwords from the victim computer. Usually, attackers pose as trusted entities and lure unsuspecting users into revealing sensitive information. Most phishing attacks are carried out in the form of email attachments Paulo Dybala curled in a brilliant second goal for Juventus. PHOTO: REUTERS or links, which when opened or clicked, can cause a serious dent to users’ Virus-hit Dybala still remains dangerous nancials. The best way to prevent yourself from ROME, ITALY: Paulo Dybala remains as dangerous as ever despite nearly 50 falling prey to a phishing attack is to days with the coronavirus. Dybala was isolated for 46 days starting in March when he continued to refrain from opening mails that seem Cristiano Ronaldo test positive for the virus week after week – even though he was reportedly suspicious, especially mails in the PHOTO: REUTERS spam or junk folder. A pro tip is to look for spelling and grammar mistakes in the text as several such without symptoms. Dybala's girlfriend also tested positive. emails have errors in them. "To tell you the truth, I didn't really feel that great today," Dybala said. Remember to install a good antivirus on your system as this too can prevent you from falling prey to "But I'm happy that I played a great match. During the time when I was cybercrime and virus attacks. idle I tried to stay in form by eating nutritiously." AP

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