Math Is Fun Forum

lightning

Real Member

Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 2,060

sdrawkcab slamina

how many animals names can you put backwards to make another word eg.  bats=stab how many can you name?

---

Zappzter - New IM app! Unsure of which room to join? "ZNU" is made to help new users. c:

JaneFairfax

Member

Registered: 2007-02-23

Posts: 6,868

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

bats – stab

bat – tab
wolf – flow
rat – tar
rats – star
skua – auks
auks – skua
dog – god
deer – reed
ram – mar
ewe – ewe
gnat – tang
eel – lee
cod – doc

Last edited by JaneFairfax (2007-05-13 07:34:59)

lightning

Real Member

Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 2,060

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

nice! but i a ewe, skua and a auks a animal???

---

Zappzter - New IM app! Unsure of which room to join? "ZNU" is made to help new users. c:

Devantè

Real Member

Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 6,400

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

Yes. The skua is a gull-like jaeger of northern seas. The ewe is a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana, and auks are birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes. They are superficially similar to penguins due to their black-and-white colours, their upright posture and some of their habits. Nevertheless they are not related to the penguins at all, but considered by some to be a product of moderate convergent evolution. (They are sometimes humorously cited as the explanation why penguins do not exist in the Northern Hemisphere.)

lightning

Real Member

Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 2,060

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

cool!

---

Zappzter - New IM app! Unsure of which room to join? "ZNU" is made to help new users. c:

mathsyperson

Moderator

Registered: 2005-06-22

Posts: 4,900

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

Trust Devanté to come up with the dictionary answer.

I'm not sure his definition of ewe should count as an animal, but luckily there's also the much easier definition, of it being a female sheep.

I want stang to be a word.

---

Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.

MathsIsFun

Administrator

Registered: 2005-01-21

Posts: 7,713

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

The bee stang him. Your wish is granted.

---

"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

lightning

Real Member

Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 2,060

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

bats – stab

bat – tab
wolf – flow
rat – tar
rats – star
skua – auks
auks – skua
dog – god
deer – reed
ram – mar
ewe – ewe
gnat – tang
eel – lee
cod – doc

13 points! (not including mine) can enyone beat it!

MathsIsFun: there's a bee?!?! where? AHHHH!! stop it! stupid bee!

---

Zappzter - New IM app! Unsure of which room to join? "ZNU" is made to help new users. c:

JaneFairfax

Member

Registered: 2007-02-23

Posts: 6,868

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

Aw, I was going to think of some more animals and add to the list. For example, there’s

rail – liar

A rail is a bird belonging to the family Rallidae (order Gruiformes); coots and moorhens are the most common examples of rails.

And a couple more (bit iffy):

pup – pup
pets – step

Last edited by JaneFairfax (2007-05-16 01:38:18)

mathsyperson

Moderator

Registered: 2005-06-22

Posts: 4,900

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

Oh, of course. I was thinking that the only past tense was stung, but it changes upon context.

I think that we should try to find longer ones. With the exception of gnats, none of them are any longer than 4 letters.

---

Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.

U7109

Real Member

Registered: 2007-03-19

Posts: 485

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

Lion- Noil
Cat- Act
Loaf- Foal
Wasp- Paws
Snake- Kane's
Gnu- Nug

That's all I can think off. Here in Melbourne, it's ten at night, and I'm still awake, but not that much...

---

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination," ~ John Lennon

mathsyperson

Moderator

Registered: 2005-06-22

Posts: 4,900

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

Sorry, lion - noil is the only one of those that works. The animals need to be backwards words, not just anagrams.

---

Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.

Stanley_Marsh

Member

Registered: 2006-12-13

Posts: 345

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

Santa = Satan

This one , I dont think just a coincidence...lol

---

Numbers are the essence of the Universe

landof+

Member

Registered: 2007-03-24

Posts: 131

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

man - nam

---

I shall be on leave until I say so...

lightning

Real Member

Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 2,060

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

Stanley_Marsh wrote: Santa = Satan

This one , I dont think just a coincidence...lol

no it has to be backwards not muddled up

---

Zappzter - New IM app! Unsure of which room to join? "ZNU" is made to help new users. c:

landof+

Member

Registered: 2007-03-24

Posts: 131

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

Tiger : regit?
Koala : alaok??!

HAHA... thanks for bringing this thread back, lightning, I had forgotten about it before!

---

I shall be on leave until I say so...

lightning

Real Member

Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 2,060

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

Are they even words??? Bats=stab

---

Zappzter - New IM app! Unsure of which room to join? "ZNU" is made to help new users. c:

landof+

Member

Registered: 2007-03-24

Posts: 131

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

I don't know.

otter = retto????!!!!!

I'm really not sure.

---

I shall be on leave until I say so...

lightning

Real Member

Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 2,060

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

cat=tac

sorry i'm just explaining to my friend how LaTeX works

---

Zappzter - New IM app! Unsure of which room to join? "ZNU" is made to help new users. c:

Zach

Member

Registered: 2005-03-23

Posts: 2,075

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

That's no LaTeX.

---

Boy let me tell you what:
I bet you didn't know it, but I'm a fiddle player too.
And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you.

Nehushtan

Member

Registered: 2013-03-09

Posts: 957

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

bats – stab

bat – tab
wolf – flow
rat – tar
rats – star
skua – auks
auks – skua
dog – god
deer – reed
ram – mar
ewe – ewe
gnat – tang
eel – lee
cod – doc

rail – liar

pup – pup
pets – step

gnus – sung
tit – tit
spider – redips
animal – lamina

Last edited by Nehushtan (2016-03-06 11:49:13)

---

240 books currently added on Goodreads

mathaholic

Member

From: Earth

Registered: 2012-11-29

Posts: 3,251

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

I'll give my best shot.

(1) cat tac
(2) dog god
(3) elephant tnahpele
(4) fox xof
(5) giraffe effarig
(6) frog grof
(7) ant tna
(8) iguana anaugi
(9) lamb bmal
(10) monkey yeknom
(11) bird drib
(12) orangutan natugnaro
(13) peacock kcocaep
(14) rhinoceros soreconihr
(15)* tarsier reisrat
(16) bull llub
(17) vulture erutluv
(18) walrus surlaw
(19) zebra arbez
(20) kangaroo ooragnak

Additional notes:
*

---

Mathaholic | 10th most active poster | Maker of the 350,000th post | Person | rrr's classmate

Alg Num Theory

Member

Registered: 2017-11-24

Posts: 693

Website

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

slug → guls*

[list=*]
[*][/*]
[/list]

*Plural of gul.

I'll give my best shot.

(1) cat tac
(2) dog god
(3) elephant tnahpele
(4) fox xof
(5) giraffe effarig
(6) frog grof
(7) ant tna
(8) iguana anaugi
(9) lamb bmal
(10) monkey yeknom
(11) bird drib
(12) orangutan natugnaro
(13) peacock kcocaep
(14) rhinoceros soreconihr
(15)* tarsier reisrat
(16) bull llub
(17) vulture erutluv
(18) walrus surlaw
(19) zebra arbez
(20) kangaroo ooragnak

Additional notes:
*http://media.mnn.com/assets/images/2015/04/tarsiers-lead.jpg.653x0_q80_crop-smart.jpg

Sorry, the backward words have to be actual words, not just any backward spellings. Your words don’t count.

---

Me, or the ugly man, whatever (3,3,6)

Jaspers

Member

Registered: 2019-05-24

Posts: 54

Re: sdrawkcab slamina

dab → bad

(Dab is a type of fish.)

---

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.