Important Announcement
19 June, 2020 at 1:39 PM
ELC is excited to announce that we will be offering our three summer Junior campus programs (at UCLA, UCSB, and Boston) as well as our Adult Campus program (at UCLA) for summer of 2022. Please contact Jennifer McEleney at [email protected] for more information or to book a course.
Important Announcement
19 June, 2020 at 1:39 PM
ELC is excited to announce that we will be offering our three summer Junior campus programs (at UCLA, UCSB, and Boston) as well as our Adult Campus program (at UCLA) for summer of 2022. Please contact Jennifer McEleney at [email protected] for more information or to book a course.
Everyone knows of a palindrome…But what’s a Levidrome?
The story begins with a six-year-old boy from British Columbia named Levi. One day, Levi realized that there’s no word in the English dictionary for a word that spells a different word when backward. Palindromes — words that are spelled the same way forward and backward, like kayak — already exist and are a fun and quirky trait of language (see our blog post from April 2017 for more palindromes). But what about when a totally different word is created?
Introducing… the Levidrome!
Before the Oxford dictionary will add a new word into the official list of English words, it has to be a word that is commonly used. William Shatner, famous for his role as Captain Kirk on Star Trek, even tweeted about it to try and help little Levi become a dictionary word!
Shatner found the following words: am/ma; now/won; deliver/reviled; debut/tubed; recap/pacer; smart/trams; boy/yob; stab/bats; at/ta; he/eh; saw/was; sway/yaws; mined/denim; keep/peek; flow/wolf; stop/pots; nab/ban; desserts/stressed; reward/drawer.
ELC also thought of: loot/tool; pin/nip; dog/God; loop/pool.
Can you think of any? What about in your language? See what others have come up with by searching #levidrome
