Palindrome Palindromes

Palindroming is such an unnatural occupation that it is extremely hard to make an intelligible pal of length, or even a short one involving diphthongs, especially if H is involved. (No, no, the letter, not the drug. But I imagine heroin would make it totally impossible, if not uninteresting.) Hence most pals require and ideally requite explanation, as few make easy reading, unlike anagrams which are much easier. With that excuse, I present some more or less identical palls that include and define the word palindrome itself in a new way, so far as I know

Hail Mary, Full of Constraints

Cheer on poor Mary and her lamb as they suffer yet more pastiches in various constrained forms

Anagram Quiz 3

The clues are definitive anagrams or polyanagrams of the answers. Most are reversibles. Answers are out back

Punk Whiz 15

More Pun Quiz misdefinitions. In parenthesis are the letters in the answer; (3|6) is a charade, a nine-letter word that splits into a three plus six letter pun. My answers are out back

Antigrams from Word Ways: A Retrospective

In the November 2009 Kickshaws, Ove Michaelsen presented a selection of antigrams from various sources, but excluded mention of any from Word Ways. I\u27ve presented nearly 200 herein and felt a review of the best of these would give Word Ways due credit and balance out Ove\u27s list. A few of these don\u27t agree grammatically but were apt enough otherwise to forgive and include

Letter Height Lipograms

lip-marylambs mars wee ewe mar owns a wee ewe; ewe owns a snow over. mars moves cause ewe same sure moves. as mar comes on courses, so ewe comes on. -- a no-no! ewe amuses coursers, roar ewe on course! eux-eux-eux

Punk Quiz 6

Another misdefinition pun quiz

A Pseudo-History of Alphabetical Characters

These are naivist, intuitive pictograph theories of whence ow alphabet got into the shape it\u27s in today, based on what today\u27s letters look like. Try you head at imagining pseudo-credible origins for them, freely allowing anachronisms. With luck, you won\u27t get arrested for it. And with my examples as standards, you can\u27t possibly embarrass yourself