Alyssa Kramer can say any word backward. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Assyla Remark nac yas yna drow drawkcacb. The 14-year-old ...

How do dictionary makers keep track of similarly suffixed words, like those ending in -ism, -graphy, -ness, or -ology? With a computer, it’s simple, but ...

A palindrome is a word or phrase that is the same forwards and backwards, but a semordnilap ("palindromes" backwards) is a word that becomes a... Palindromes Semordnilap A palindrome is a word or ...

If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every word spelled backwards. While this sounds absurd, there's an excellent reason ...