More Anagrams

More anagrams:

  • ANGERED = ENRAGED
  • CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE = ACTUAL CRIME ISN’T EVINCED
  • DISAPPOINTMENT = MADE IN PINT POTS
  • ENDEARMENTS = TENDER NAMES
  • MARRIAGE = A GRIM ERA
  • MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS = NOTED MISCALCULATIONS
  • PUNISHMENT = NINE THUMPS
  • ROME WAS NOT BUILT IN A DAY = ANY LABOUR I DO WANTS TIME
  • SAINT ELMO’S FIRE = IS LIT FOR SEAMEN
  • SAUCINESS = CAUSES SIN
  • SOFT-HEARTEDNESS = OFTEN SHEDS TEARS
  • A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE = THIS IS MEANT AS INCENTIVE
  • WESTERN UNION = NO WIRE UNSENT

Louis XIII appointed a Provencal to be his royal anagrammatist. He was paid 1,200 livres a year.

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Harry S? Truman

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You can start fights among copyeditors by asking them how to punctuate Harry Truman’s name.

The 34th president had no middle name — just the letter S. So the question is, do you add a period afterward? Purists say no, it’s not an abbreviation. Pragmatists say yes, if you omit the period then some readers will stop at the “error.”

Truman himself usually signed his name with a period, but he once remarked that it should be omitted. That’s why, to this day, some newspapers refer to him as Harry S Truman.

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