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{{short description|Word whose spelling is derived by reversing the spelling of another word}}
[[File:Anagram animation Canada = Adanac.gif|thumb|An animation of existing words or names for entities related to the thing named by the anadrome]]
An '''anadrome'''{{Citation needed|date=February 2021|reason=Maybe wrong usage of the word of a different meaning/etymology, see anadromous fish/species.}} (also '''emordnilap''',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/emordnilap-palindrome/ | title=Is 'Emordnilap' a Real Word? | date=13 December 2014 |work=Snopes}}</ref> '''semordnilap'''<ref name="the week">{{Cite web|url=https://theweek.com/articles/447485/9-words-created-by-spelling-other-words-backwards|title=9 words created by spelling other words backwards|first=Arika Okrent last|last=updated|date=April 29, 2014|website=theweek}}</ref> and '''levidrome'''{{efn|In 2017, a boy from Toronto, Canada coined "levidrome", and there were attempts to get it recognized by [[Merriam-Webster]] and [[Oxford English Dictionary]].<ref>https://fox4kc.com/news/what-is-a-levidrome-merriam-webster-recognizes-new-word-in-honor-of-little-boy/</ref> In 2018, Oxford replied that it is still not ready.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/latest-word-on-levidrome-oxford-says-its-not-ready-but-linguist-begs-to-differ-4666641|title=Latest word on 'levidrome': Oxford says it's not ready, but linguist begs to differ|date=October 14, 2018|website=Times Colonist}}</ref> As of 2021, it is still being requested.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/a-victoria-10-year-old-created-a-word-for-a-linguistic-oddity-over-the-past-four-years-its-come-to-mean-so-much-more|title=A Victoria 10-year-old created a word for a linguistic oddity. Over the past four years, it's come to mean so much more |work=Capital Daily}}</ref>}}) is a word that has its spelling derived by reversing the spelling of another word. It is therefore a special type of [[anagram]]. There is a long history of [[name]]s being [[neologism|coined]] as '''ananyms''' of existing words or names for entities related to the thing named by this subset of anadromes. Note that a levidrome usually spells another, existing word backwards, e.g. pots vs. stop,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fox 4 |url=https://fox4kc.com/news/what-is-a-levidrome-merriam-webster-recognizes-new-word-in-honor-of-little-boy/}}</ref> while an ''anadrome'' results in novel letter sequences, such as Canada yielding Adanac (quite common street name in Canadian cities).

==Examples==
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!Anadrome
!Derived from
!Explanation
!Type
!References
|-
|[[20461 Dioretsa]] 
|[[asteroid]]
|asteroid with [[retrograde orbit]]
|astronomy
| <ref name="MPC-object">{{cite web
  |title      = 20461 Dioretsa (1999 LD31)
  |work       = Minor Planet Center
  |url        = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=20461
  |accessdate = 20 November 2018}}</ref>
|-
|''[[Livic]]'' 
| [[civil engineering|civil (engineering)]]
|trade newspaper, "a reflection of Civil Engineering"
|work
| <ref>{{cite web | url=https://eiffelover.com/livic-at-three-years-old/ | title=Livic at three years old | date=23 March 2007 }}</ref>
|-
|[[Rekkof Aircraft]] 
|[[Fokker]]
|Rekkof aircraft are based on Fokker designs.  Also Rekkof Restart. Now Fokker Next Gen.
|business
| <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fokkers-back-in-the-airplane-building-game/ | title=Fokker's Back in the Airplane-Building Game - CBS News | website=[[CBS News]] | date=10 March 2010 }}</ref>
|-
|[[Redrum (disambiguation)|Redrum]] 
|[[Murder]]
|Word used in the Stephen King novel ''[[The Shining (novel)|The Shining]]'' (1977) and [[The Shining (film)|its movie adaptation]] (1980)
|Entertainment
| <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.xxlmag.com/21-savage-redrum/|title=21 Savage's 'Redrum' Has an Unexpected Origin From a Classic Horror Movie|first=Mackenzie Cummings-GradyMackenzie|last=Cummings-Grady|date=March 8, 2024|website=XXL Mag}}</ref>
|-
|[[yrneh]] 
|[[henry (unit)|henry]]
|A unit of measurement for reciprocal electrical [[inductance]].
|electricity
|
|-
|[[daraf]] 
|[[farad]]
|a unit of [[elastance]] equal to the reciprocal farad.
|electricity
|
|-
|[[mho]] 
|[[ohm]]
|A unit of [[electrical conductance]] which is the reciprocal of an ohm. Now known by its official [[International System of Units|SI]] name "[[Siemens (unit)|siemens]]" although mho is still sometimes used.
|electricity
|
|-
|[[Trebor (disambiguation)|Trebor]] 
|[[Robert]]
| Source of the names of [[Trebor (confectionery)|Trebor confectionery]], [[Robert Trebor]], and probably [[Trebor (composer)|Trebor the composer]]
| name (alias) and product
|
|-
| Trebor and Werdna
| [[Robert Woodhead|Robert {{Bracket|Woodhead}}]] and [[Andrew C. Greenberg|Andrew {{Bracket|C. Greenberg}}]]
| Characters in ''[[Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord]]'' computer game named after its programmers.
| work
|
|-
|[[Seltaeb]] 
|[[The Beatles|Beatles]]
|Beatles' merchandising company
|business
|
|-
|[[Llareggub]] 
|"bugger all"
|In ''[[Under Milk Wood]]''
|work
| <ref name="the week"/>
|-
|[[Harpo Productions]]
|[[Oprah Winfrey|Oprah (Winfrey)]]
|Oprah's media company
|business
| <ref name="the week"/>
|-
|[[Senim Silla]]
|"all is mines"
|"mines" is [[AAVE]] for "mine". 
|name (alias)
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.platform8470.com/artists/ai_senimsilla.asp |title=Senim Silla: return of a star |author=Crazy Illa Wulf |date=May 2007 |work=platform8470 |accessdate=22 February 2011 |location=Gistel, Belgium |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827220003/http://www.platform8470.com/artists/ai_senimsilla.asp |archivedate=27 August 2008 }}</ref>
|-
|[[Epsilon Cassiopeiae|Navi]]
|[[Gus Grissom|<small>(Virgil)</small> Ivan <small>(Grissom)</small>]]
|[[Apollo program]] joke by Grissom
|astronomy
| <ref name="Harland2007">{{cite book|last=Harland|first=David Michael|title=The first men on the moon: the story of Apollo 11|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y4jik85mL8EC&pg=PA136|access-date=22 February 2011|year=2007|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-387-34176-7|page=136}}</ref>
|-
|[[Iota Ursae Majoris|Dnoces]]
|[[Ed White (astronaut)|<small>(Edward H. White the)</small> Second]]
|[[Apollo program]] joke by Grissom
|astronomy
|<ref name="Harland2007" />
|-
|[[Gamma Velorum|Regor]]
|[[Roger B. Chaffee|Roger <small>(Chaffee)</small>]]
|[[Apollo program]] joke by Grissom
|astronomy
|<ref name="Harland2007" />
|-
|''[[Erewhon]]''
|"nowhere"
|A [[utopia]] and the title of an 1872 novel by [[Samuel Butler (novelist)|Samuel Butler]]. The [[wh (digraph)|digraph &lt;wh&gt;]] is not reversed. Many names within the book are also ananyms.
|work
| <ref name="the week"/><ref>{{cite journal|last=Balfour Daniels|first=R.|date=Winter 1969|title=Names in the Fiction of Samuel Butler (1835-1902)|journal=The South Central Bulletin|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press, South Central Modern Language Association|volume=29|issue=4|pages=129–132|doi=10.2307/3187333|jstor=3187333}}</ref>
|-
|[[elgooG]]
|[[Google]]
|reverse-spelling search engine
|business
|
|-
|[[Xallarap]]
|[[parallax]]
|Converse microlensing effect
|term
|
|-
|[[Ebbot Lundberg|Ebbot (Lundberg)]]
|Tobbe 
|Tobbe is the usual [[hypocoristic]] of Torbjörn, his real given name.
|name (alias)
|
|-
|[[Rokuko|로꾸거 (Rokuko)]]
|거꾸로 (gokkuro)
|Backwards for [[Korean language|Korean]] for "backwards"
|work
|
|-
|[[Xvid]]
|[[DivX]]
|A competitor
|product
|
|-
|[[David Jude Jolicoeur|Trugoy (The Dove)]]
| [[yogurt]]
| He likes yogurt
| name (alias)
| <ref name="trugoy obituary">{{Cite web |date=February 12, 2023 |title=De La Soul co-founder Trugoy the Dove dead at 54 |url=https://apnews.com/article/trugoy-the-dove-dies-obituary-de-la-soul-music-86ebc0545ff2111c7b0fc6e6f491ef78 |access-date=February 13, 2023 |website=AP News}}</ref>
|-
|[[Kelvin Mercer|Posdnuos]]
|"Sound-Sop"
| Both were used as stage names for Kelvin Mercer 
| name (alias)
| <ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/05/18/de-la-souls-mind-bending-rap/af8f9493-1894-41e2-88f2-ed2057247d0b/</ref>
|-
|[[Mail Abuse Prevention System|MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System)]]
|[[E-mail spam|spam]]
|reverse [[backronym]]
|product
|
|-
|[[Alucard (disambiguation)|Alucard]]
|[[Dracula]]
|Borne by various characters derived from Dracula
|work
|
|-
|[[Nimda]]
|[[System administrator|admin]]
|The [[computer worm]] assumed admin-like powers.
|product 
|
|-
|Nogard
|[[Dragon]]
|Character in [[Alan F. Beck]] art series ''The Adventures of Nogard & Jackpot''
|name 
|<ref>Alan F. Beck, ''The Adventures of Nogard & Jackpot '', 2009. {{ISBN|978-1449519391}}</ref>
|-
|[[Emirp]]
|[[Prime number|Prime]]
|An emirp is a prime number that results in a different prime when its digits are reversed.
|term
|
|-
|[[Coquitlam Adanacs|(Coquitlam) Adanac(s)]]
|[[Canada]]
|Team is Canadian 
|organization
|
|-
|[[Nujabes]]
|Jun Seba
|His real name
|name (alias)
|
|-
|[[Essiac]]
|Rene Caisse
|Its inventor
|product
|
|-
| [[Revilo]]
| Oliver
| multiple authors and artists use this as an alias
| name (alias)
|
|-
|[[Adanac, Nipissing District, Ontario|Adanac (Nipissing District, Ontario)]]
|[[Canada]]
|Location
|placename
|
|-
|[[Airegin]]
|[[Nigeria]]
|Composer [[Sonny Rollins]] is [[African American]]
|work
|
|-
|[[Yarg]] 
|(Allan and Jenny) Gray
|Couple who provided the recipe
|product
|
|-
|[[Soma Records (U.S. label)|Soma Records]]
|Amos Heilicher
|Owner
|business
|
|-
|[[Nomad (British band)]]
|[[Damon Rochefort|Damon (Rochefort)]]
|Founder member
|organization
|
|-
|[[Gnip Gnop]]
|[[ping pong]]
|Reminiscent of the other tabletop game
|product
|
|-
|[[Trebloc, Mississippi]]
|Colbert
|Local family, whose name is found in many places; the reversal was "to avoid further repetition". 
|placename
|<ref>{{cite journal|last=Phelps|first=Dawson A.|author2=Edward Hunter Ross|date=Fall 1952|title=Names Please: Place Names along the Natchez Trace|journal=The Journal of Mississippi History|publisher=Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Mississippi Historical Society|volume=14|page=240|url=http://mdah.state.ms.us/pubs/natchez_place-names.pdf#page=24|access-date=2011-01-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007112216/http://mdah.state.ms.us/pubs/natchez_place-names.pdf#page=24|archive-date=2010-10-07|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|[[Corrigan House|Nagirroc]]
|Corrigan 
|Owner's surname
|placename
|
|-
|[[Strebor]]
|Roberts
|Founder/owner?
|business
|
|-
|[[Ridan (horse)]]
|Nadir
|Named after another horse
|name (animal)
|
|-
|[[Niloak Pottery]]
|[[kaolin]]
|Material used in products
|business
|
|-
|[[Rellim Farm]]
|(Paul) Miller 
|Founder
|business
|
|-
|[[Yellek, Ontario]]
|(R. J.) Kelley
|Trainmaster at the passing point
|placename
|
|-
|[[Nomar Garciaparra|Nomar (Garciaparra)]]
|Ramon
|His father's name
|name
|
|-
|OAT (organizing autonomous telecomms)
|[[TAO (collective)|TAO (The Anarchy Organization)]]
|reverse [[backronym]] of its former name
|organization
|
|-
|[[Kroz series|Kroz]]
|[[Zork]]
|Homage to older computer game
|product
|
|-
|[[Ani Lorak]]
|Karolina
|Her real forename
|name (alias)
|
|-
|''[[Sevas Tra]]''
|"art saves"
| 
|work
|
|-
|[[Azed]]
|[[Diego Deza|(Diego) Deza]]
|Crossword compiler named after Spanish inquisitor
|name (alias)
|<ref>Room (2010), p.40</ref>
|-
|Tesremos
|[[Derrick Somerset Macnutt|(Derrick) Somerset (Macnutt)]]
|His middle name
|name (alias)
|<ref>Room (2010), p.517</ref>
|-
|[[Alpha Delphini|Sualocin]]
|[[Niccolò Cacciatore|Nicolaus (Venator)]]
|Niccolò Cacciatore's name (~Nicholas Hunter) Latinized and reversed
|astronomy
|<ref name="RidpathTirion2007">{{cite book|last1=Ridpath|first1=Ian|last2=Tirion|first2=Wil|title=Stars and planets: the most complete guide to the stars, planets, galaxies, and the solar system|year=2007|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-13556-4|page=140}}</ref>
|-
|[[Beta Delphini|Rotanev]]
|[[Niccolò Cacciatore|(Nicolaus) Venator]]
|Niccolò Cacciatore's name (~Nicholas Hunter) Latinized and reversed
|astronomy
|<ref name="RidpathTirion2007" />
|-
|[[Senrab F.C.|Senrab (F.C.)]]
|Barnes 
|After Senrab Street, after Barnes Street
|organization
|
|-
|[[Neuchâtel Xamax|(Neuchâtel) Xamax]]
|[[Max Abegglen|Max (Abegglen)]]
|Founder, backwards and forwards
|organization
|
|-
| [[C. W. Ceram]]
| K. W. Marek
| Surname Latinised and reversed
| name (alias)
| <ref>Room (2010), p.99</ref>
|-
|Allerednic
|[[Cinderella]]
|A "riches to rags" tale as opposed to Cinderella's [[rags to riches]]. Used by Jonathan Gershuny of high-achieving women whose careers stall after marriage.
|term
| <ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gershuny |first1=Jonathan |title=Time Budgets, Life Histories and Social Position |journal=Quality and Quantity |date=1999 |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=277–289 |doi=10.1023/A:1004648804214|s2cid=142779389 }}; {{cite news |last1=Langdon |first1=Julia |title=Cherie Booth: Now you see her, now you don't |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/cherie-booth-now-you-see-her-now-you-dont-696686.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423213809/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/cherie-booth-now-you-see-her-now-you-dont-696686.html |archive-date=2019-04-23 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |accessdate=23 April 2019 |work=The Independent |date=13 August 2000 |language=en}}; {{cite news |last1=Hay |first1=Hannah Furness |title=Hay Festival 2013: Working women are Cinderella in reverse |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/10090728/Hay-Festival-2013-Working-women-are-Cinderella-in-reverse.html |accessdate=23 April 2019 |date=31 May 2013}}</ref>
|-

|Llamedos
|sod 'em all
|in [[Terry Pratchett's Discworld]] novels (modelled on [[Llareggub#Llareggub|Llaregub]])
|placename
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Llamedos|title=Llamedos - Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki}}</ref>
|-
|[[Esio Trot]]
|tortoise
|Children's book by [[Roald Dahl]] 
|work
|
|-
|[[Nevaeh]]
|Heaven
|feminine name
|name
|
|-
| Гярб вечнълс (Giarb vechnals)
| Слънчев бряг (Slanchev briag, "[[Sunny Beach]]")
| [[Bulgarian alphabet]] ananym
| placename
| 
|-
|[[Namyats]]
|[[Sam Stayman|[Sam] Stayman]]
|[[Bridge convention]] invented by Stayman, who also invented the [[Stayman convention]].
| term
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bridgehands.com/N/NAMYATS.htm|title=Namyats (4C, 4D, 4H, 4S) - Bridge Bidding Convention|date=22 January 2011|work=BridgeHands|accessdate=10 May 2016|location=Petaluma, California}}</ref>
|-
|[[Adaven]]
|[[Nevada]]
|ghost town
|placename
|
|-
|[[Free and open-source graphics device driver#Vivante|Etnaviv]]
|[[Vivante Corporation|Vivante]]
|open-source driver for Vivante GPU
|product
|
|-
|[[Namor]]
|Roman
|Comic book character whose creator wrote down noble-sounding names backwards and thought Roman/Namor looked the best
|name
|
|-
| ''[[Eivets Rednow]]''
| [[Stevie Wonder]]
| Music album named from its artist
| work
|
|-
|[[List of Fantasia (franchise) characters#Yen Sid|Yen Sid]]
|[[Walt Disney|Disney]]
| The powerful sorcerer in ''[[Fantasia (1940 film)|Fantasia]]'' (1940), whose apprentice [[Mickey Mouse]] causes mayhem after borrowing his master's hat.
| name
| <ref>{{cite book|last=Koehler|first=Dorene|title=The Mouse and the Myth: Sacred Art and Secular Ritual of Disneyland|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=2017|page=161}}</ref>
|-
| [[Klim_(powdered_milk)|Klim]]
| [[milk]]
| A brand of [[powdered milk]] sold by [[Nestlé]], early ads featuring the slogan "Spell it backwards."
| product
| <ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/schoollunchitsor00smed|page=[https://archive.org/details/schoollunchitsor00smed/page/n238 171]|title=The school lunch: its organization and management in Philadelphia|publisher=Emma Smedley|first=Emma|last=Smedley|date=1920}}</ref>
|-
| [[Raven_(2002_TV_series)#Cast|Nevar]]
| [[Raven_(2002_TV_series)|Raven]]
| The nemesis of the main character, the sorcerer Raven.
| work
|-
| [[Rednaxela Terrace]], Hong Kong || Alexander || Believed to have been originally named after a Mr. Alexander, who partially owned the street, but reversed due to a clerical error || placename || <ref>{{cite book |title= Signs of a Colonial Era|last1= Yanne|first1=Andrew|last2= Heller|first2= Gillis|year= 2009|publisher=[[Hong Kong University Press]]|page= 143|isbn= 9789622099449}}</ref><ref name=scmp1987092>{{cite web|url=http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/1987092/stories-behind-hong-kong-street-names-rednaxela-terrace-and|title=Stories behind Hong Kong street names: Rednaxela Terrace and its famous resident|work=South China Morning Post|date=8 July 2016 }}</ref>
|-
| [[Magical_objects_in_Harry_Potter#The_Mirror_of_Erised|(the Mirror of)<br/>Erised]] || desire || Its full inscription (mirrored and correctly spaced) reads "I show not your face but your heart’s ''desire.''" || name ||
|-
| Nitsuga ||  [[Agustín]] || Pseudonym of [[Agustín Barrios-Mangoré]] || name ||
|}

Many jazz titles were written by reversing names or nouns: [[Ecaroh]] inverts the spelling of its composer [[Horace Silver]]'s Christian name. [[Sonny Rollins]] dedicated to [[Nigeria]] a tune called "[[Airegin]]".

==See also==
* [[-nym]]
* [[List of geographic anagrams and ananyms]]
* [[:Category:Names derived from word reversals]]

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

==References==
* {{cite book|last=Room|first=Adrian|title=Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSIhzKnNUf4C|access-date=15 January 2011|date=2010-07-26|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-4373-4}}
{{Reflist}}


==External links==
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