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Ananym | Derived from | Explanation | Type | References |
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20461 Dioretsa | asteroid | asteroid with retrograde orbit | astronomy |
Livic | civil (engineering) | trade newspaper, "a reflection of Civil Engineering" | work |
Rekkof Aircraft | Fokker | Rekkof aircraft are based on Fokker designs | business |
yrneh | henry | A unit of measurement for reciprocal electrical inductance. | electricity |
daraf | farad | a unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal farad. | electricity |
mho | ohm | A unit of electrical conductance which is the reciprocal of an ohm. Now known by its official SI name "siemens" although mho is still sometimes used. | electricity |
Trebor | Robert | Trebor may refer to: Cadbury Trebor Bassett, a British confectionery company; Trebor, a 14th-century composer; Robert Trebor, an actor; Trebor Healey, an American poet and novelist; Trebor Edwards, a Welsh tenor; The titular character from Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord and its immediate sequels, arch-enemy of Werdna. | name |
Seltaeb | Beatles | Beatles' merchandising company | business |
Llareggub | "bugger all" | In Under Milk Wood | work |
Harpo Productions | Oprah (Winfrey) | Oprah's media company | business |
Senim Silla | "all is mines" | "mines" is AAVE for "mine". | name (alias) | [1] |
Navi | (Virgil) Ivan (Grissom) | Apollo program joke by Grissom | astronomy | [2] |
Dnoces | (Edward H. White the) Second | Apollo program joke by Grissom | astronomy | [2] |
Regor | Roger (Chaffee) | Apollo program joke by Grissom | astronomy | [2] |
Erewhon | "nowhere" | A utopia. The digraph <wh> is not reversed. Many names within the book are also ananyms. | work | [3] |
elgooG | Google | reverse-spelling search engine | business |
Xallarap | parallax | Converse microlensing effect | term |
Ebbot (Lundberg) | Tobbe | Tobbe is the usual hypocoristic of Torbjörn, his real given name. | name (alias) |
로꾸거 (Rokuko) | 거꾸로 (gokkuro) | Backwards for Korean for "backwards" | work |
semordnilap | palindrome | A semi-palindrome | term |
Xvid | DivX | A competitor | product |
Trugoy (The Dove) | yogurt | He likes yogurt | name (alias) |
Posdnuos | "Sound-Sop" | High school DJing nickname | name (alias) |
MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System) | spam | reverse backronym | product |
Alucard | Dracula | Borne by various characters derived from Dracula | work |
Nimda | admin | The computer worm assumed admin-like powers. | product |
Nogard | Dragon | Character in Alan F. Beck art series The Adventures of Nogard & Jackpot | name | [4] |
Emirp | Prime | An emirp is a prime number that results in a different prime when its digits are reversed. | term |
(Coquitlam) Adanac(s) | Canada | Team is Canadian | organization |
Nujabes | Jun Seba | His real name | name (alias) |
Essiac | Rene Caisse | Its inventor | product |
"Revilo" | Oliver Christianson | His real name | name (alias) |
Adanac(, Nipissing District, Ontario) | Canada | Location | placename |
"Airegin" | Nigeria | Composer Sonny Rollins is African American | work |
Yarg | (Allan and Jenny) Gray | Couple who provided the recipe | product |
Soma Records | Amos Heilicher | Owner | business |
Nomad (band) | Damon (Rochefort) | Founder member | organization |
Gnip Gnop | ping pong | Reminiscent of the other tabletop game | product |
Trebloc, Mississippi | Colbert | Local family, whose name is found in many places; the reversal was "to avoid further repetition". | placename | [5] |
"Nagirroc" | Corrigan | Owner's surname | placename |
Strebor | Roberts | Founder/owner? | business |
Ridan (horse) | Nadir | Named after another horse | name (animal) |
Niloak Pottery | kaolin | Material used in products | business |
Rellim Farm | (Paul) Miller | Founder | business |
Yellek, Ontario | (R. J.) Kelley | Trainmaster at the passing point | placename |
Nomar (Garciaparra) | Ramon | His father's name | name |
OAT (organizing autonomous telecomms) | TAO (The Anarchy Organization) | reverse backronym of its former name | organization |
Kroz | Zork | Homage to older computer game | product |
Ani Lorak | Karolina | Her real forename | name (alias) |
Sevas Tra | "art saves" | work |
Azed | (Diego) Deza | Crossword compiler named after Spanish inquisitor | name (alias) | [6] |
Tesremos | (Derrick) Somerset (Macnutt) | His middle name | name (alias) | [7] |
Sualocin | Nicolaus (Venator) | Niccolò Cacciatore's name (~Nicholas Hunter) Latinized and reversed | astronomy | [8] |
Rotanev | (Nicolaus) Venator | Niccolò Cacciatore's name (~Nicholas Hunter) Latinized and reversed | astronomy | [8] |
Senrab (F.C.) | Barnes | After Senrab Street, after Barnes Street | organization |
(Neuchâtel) Xamax | Max (Abegglen) | Founder, backwards and forwards | organization |
C. W. Ceram | K. W. Merak | Surname Latinised and reversed | name (alias) | [9] |
Allerednic | Cinderella | She goes from riches to rags. Ascribed to sociologist Jonathan Israel Gershuny. | description of status; also name | [10][11] |
Llamedos | sod 'em all | in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels (modelled on Llaregub) | placename | [12] |
Nevaeh | Heaven | feminine name | name |
Гярб вечнълс (Giarb vechnals) | Слънчев бряг (Slanchev briag, "Sunny Beach") | Bulgarian alphabet ananym | placename | [13] |
Namyats | [Sam] Stayman | Bridge convention invented by Stayman, who also invented the Stayman convention. | term | [14] |
Adaven | Nevada | ghost town | placename |
Etnaviv | Vivante | open-source driver for Vivante GPU | product |
1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.platform8470.com/artists/ai_senimsilla.asp |title=Senim Silla: return of a star |author="Crazy Illa Wulf" |date=May 2007 |work=platform8470 |accessdate=22 February 2011 |location=Gistel, Belgium |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827220003/http://www.platform8470.com/artists/ai_senimsilla.asp |archivedate=27 August 2008 |df= }}
2. ^1 2 {{cite book|last=Harland|first=David Michael|title=The first men on the moon: the story of Apollo 11|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y4jik85mL8EC&pg=PA136|accessdate=22 February 2011|year=2007|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-387-34176-7|page=136}}
3. ^{{cite journal|last=Balfour Daniels|first=R.|date=Winter 1969|title=Names in the Fiction of Samuel Butler (1835-1902)|journal=The South Central Bulletin|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press, South Central Modern Language Association|volume=29|issue=4|pages=129–132|jstor=3187333}}
4. ^Alan F. Beck, The Adventures of Nogard & Jackpot , 2009. {{ISBN|978-1449519391}}
5. ^{{cite journal|last=Phelps|first=Dawson A.|author2=Edward Hunter Ross|date=Fall 1952|title=Names Please: Place Names along the Natchez Trace|journal=The Journal of Mississippi History|publisher=Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Mississippi Historical Society|volume=14|page=240|url=http://mdah.state.ms.us/pubs/natchez_place-names.pdf#page=24|access-date=2011-01-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007112216/http://mdah.state.ms.us/pubs/natchez_place-names.pdf#page=24|archive-date=2010-10-07|dead-url=yes|df=}}
6. ^Room (2010), p.40
7. ^Room (2010), p.517
8. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Ridpath|first1=Ian|last2=Tirion|first2=Wil|title=Stars and planets: the most complete guide to the stars, planets, galaxies, and the solar system|year=2007|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-13556-4|page=140}}
9. ^Room (2010), p.99
10. ^http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/M518285002/outputs/read/eec9f182-7e25-49d8-8b23-826027711430{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
11. ^{{ISBN|1479372765}}
12. ^http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Llamedos
13. ^http://www.seo-forum-seo-luntan.com/other-languages/e-kako-e-toa/msg18304/#msg18304
14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bridgehands.com/N/NAMYATS.htm|title=Namyats (4C, 4D, 4H, 4S) - Bridge Bidding Convention|date=22 January 2011|work=BridgeHands|accessdate=10 May 2016|location=Petaluma, California}}