"Semordnilap" is a word playfully coined by word-game lovers some time in the mid 20th century. While a palindrome reads the same way backwards or forwards (otto, kayak), a semordnilap (itself a ...

A bright boy from Victoria, Canada, recently discovered that the English language is lacking something — a word to describe words that spell something different when written backwards. And little Levi ...

If you love word play, you probably know that a word — or longer piece of writing — that reads the same forward and backward is called a palindrome. But what do you call a word that spells another ...

Though it's doubtful that the talent has any real world application, the girl in the video below still impresses as her friends challenge her to say any word backwards. How long would it take you to ...