Anagrams

What do Charles Fudgemuffin and 'A Cheerful Mind Guffs' have in common?
The answer is they're both anagrams of each other!

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This week the Charles Fudgemuffin blog takes a look at anagrams. As I often like to do, however, I've included a twist. One of the following 'anagrams' isn't actually an anagram. See if you can work out which one it is.

To start things off, this first anagram suggests that reports of Elvis' death may be greatly exaggerated...

1) 'Elvis' is an anagram of 'lives'.



Then again, this next anagram provides a less optimistic answer to the question 'Is Elvis still alive?'

2) 'Elvis Aaron Presley' is an anagram of 'Seen alive? Sorry, pal.'



3) I've spent a lot of time backpacking around the world staying in hostels, and I can confirm that this next anagram is very accurate...

'Dormitory' is an anagram of 'dirty room'.

A New York Times reporter, according to an
anonymous source familiar with the matter.

4) 'The morse code' is an anagram of 'here come dots'.



Here's another very appropriate anagram...

5) 'New York Times' is an anagram of 'Monkeys write'.



Fans of William Shakespeare may appreciate this next rather long-winded anagram...

6) 'To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,' is an anagram of 'In one of the Bard''s best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.'



Star Wars fans may already be aware of this next anagram...

7) 'R2D2' is an anagram of 'famous mech droid who talks in bleeps and bloops'.



8) This next anagram is bang out of order...

That's bang out of order.

Anyone who can remember all of the hysteria about the millenium bug may appreciate this next anagram...

9) 'Year two thousand' is an anagram of 'a year to shutdown'.



10.0) 'Decimal point' is an anagram of 'I'm a dot in place'.



Here's another anagram that does exactly what it says on the tin...

11) 'Astronomer' is an anagram of 'Moon starer'.

"I'll just hit the snooze button one more time..."

12) Anyone who has trouble getting up in the morning when their alarm goes off will relate to this next anagram...

'Snooze alarms' is an anagram of 'alas, no more Zs'.



13) And finally, here's a rather appropriate anagram for the thirteenth anagram on the list...

'Twelve plus one' is an anagram of 'eleven plus two'!

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In the unlikely event that anyone didn't work it out, the fake anagram was number 7! 'R2D2' isn't actually an anagram of 'famous mech droid who talks in bleeps and bloops'. That was just a silly bluff.

You can find a few more word related blog posts at the links below:
Old words that are dying out
True or false quiz: Cool foreign words
New words, and when they were first used (part 2)