You're listening to away with words, the show out language, and how we use it on Grant Barrett.

And on Martha Barnett. On our Facebook group, Teresa Abney posted about her new baby granddaughter

who was named after Teresa's late mother. She writes,

My mother's first name was Edna, which she hated, and her middle name was Marie.

In later years, my mother cleverly decided to go by Andy, which was her name spelled backwards.

And Teresa says, I have five sons, two of whom had daughters after my mom's passing,

and both wanted to name their daughter after her. Do reversal of some name spellings happen

regularly? Has it happened to you? And Grant, there's a word for this kind of thing. It's an

anodrome. It's a word that forms a different word when spelled backwards. It's like the word

palindrome, but it goes one way rather than both ways. Right. So when you talk about names spelled

backwards, Edna becomes Andy, and I think of Navella, which was popular for a while. Maybe

still is. That's heaven spelled backwards. Oh, yeah. We used to joke as a kid, spelling our names

backward and Grant is Tanarg, but nobody would use that. What else is out there? What else have people

done? A lot of people chimed in and said that they do know somebody whose name is a word spelled

backwards. DD Lloyd said, My niece Noelle was born in the spring, not at Christmas. She was named

after her dad, Leon. Oh, that's perfect. Yeah. That's a nice one. And David Wrights said,

I have a second cousin who was named Terragram after her grandmother Margaret. Okay. And Kyla Thompson

said, I had a family member named Delora. That's a D apostrophe L-O-R-A-H. They were planning on

naming her Harold. So they went for the name backwards. Oh, wow. That's clever. Delora. Although,

I bet that apostrophe causes all kind of chaos with computer systems. Yeah, probably does.

She has a twin sister who's named Lenora. So Lenora and Delora. I like those.

Nice. Yeah. I've always kind of been fond of matching names for siblings as long as it's not

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