Definitions
Etymologies
- ambi- + -gram (Wiktionary)
Examples
“An ambigram is a graphical figure that spells out one or more words not only as presented but also in another direction or orientation (from Wikipedia).”
“This Boing Boing ambigram is pretty cool -- it says "Boing Boing" both upside-down and right-side-up.”
“Alternatively, I'd to make some kind of ambigram of "Eppur Si Muove" with another famous quote about science/rational thought/defiance of traditional ideas in lack of evidence/etc.”
“A year later, for the 20th anniversary of the film, MGM and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment rereleased the movie on November 13, 2007 with flippable cover art featuring the title displayed in an ambigram.”
“The extremely cool ambigram on the cover of the book is what initially intrigued me, and led me to pick the book up when I found it on my parents 'book shelf.”
“All ready said it in the "fake poster" article, I'm afraid of how good the adaptation will be if you have someone make and approve a poster without an ambigram, that shows that those persons never read the book.”
“Logo Design Love has a cool article about 15 inspiring ambigram logos.”
“The cover for the new Princess Bride DVD is an ambigram.”
“I thought I saw an ambigram once, but it was just Sarah Jessica Parker wearing fuzzy yellow slippers.”
“Each is branded with an ambigram of the element by which they were killed.”
Announcing the birth of a new feature and the death of Jenn's self respect.
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ambigram’.
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Grammar, language, linguistics, rhetoric
backronym, Logogriph, logodaedaly, Acrostic, tmesis, pleonasm, sesquipedality, periphrasis, peroration, solecism, longueur, periphrastic and 15 more...
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Words about Words
backronym, contranym, haplology, enallage, paronomasia, scripturient, ambigram, idioglossia, dysphemism, tmesis, panvocalic, caconym and 10 more...
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Scribblative ✍
Scrawlings, notes, odd writings, and messages.
doodle, notation, scrawl, tracing, scribble, latrinalia, sketch, squiggle, notelet, post-it, chicken scratch, caligraphy and 88 more...
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Worthy Wordie
words learnt from the Internet
unthink, meme, logophile, netiquette, onomatopoeia, singularity, oed, johnson's dictionary, man friday, lewis carroll, ontology, pro bono and 143 more...
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Appellations
States of ment.
off kilter, fervent, nonchalant, exuberant, turbid, verbose, eloquent, vicarious, gallivant, orotund, amalgamate, accentuate and 285 more...
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neologisms I like
nimrod, snarky, painbow, interrobang, hoser, kooky, craptastic, preggers, asshat, brainiac, shoegaze, skanker-sore and 146 more...
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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Useful Words
I can use these.
aptronym, haplology, ectopia, folderol, volute, caryatid, spandrel, pendulous, miasmic, gelid, dotty, anomie and 257 more...
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Grammar
Terms that would be good to know.
homonym, womonym, aptronym, autoantonym, bacronym, capitonym, exonym, heteronym, oronym, patronym, pseudonym, retronym and 62 more...
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Words with highly specific meanings
Every word has a specific meaning, but some words take it a little too far.
levirate, palimpsest, solfege, sororate, apophasis, mallemaroking, tmesis, petrichor, callipygian, illeism, scrumping, sycophant and 9 more...
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DamianBurke's list
...a list...
anthropomorphism, zealot, pontificate, behest, pathogenic, polyglot, diphenhydramine e..., faustian, philistine, arpeggio, repine, palindrome and 76 more...
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brian's Words
hijinks, akimbo, plethora, accoutrements, redivider, informatician, raccoonnookkeeper, jowl, qaanaaq, sawdust, maniacal, copious and 34 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ambigram.
reesetee Will...not...succumb. Will...not...succumb. Sep 24, 2007
uselessness Yesterday I spent a large (incredibly, regrettably large) portion of the day watching YouTube videos of a mentalist named Derren Brown. Warning: they're addictive and if you search for him you'll succumb to the same fate.
Anyway, this ambigram is from a TV show of his called -- surprise -- Trick or Treat. In the show, unsuspecting people are visited by Brown, and he presents them with two cards. Both cards contain the same ambigram, but Brown tells the people "if you pick the TREAT card, something nice will happen to you... but if you pick the TRICK card, something really really horrible will happen to you. Do you agree to the game? Now just sign this waiver that says we can do anything we like to you, based on which card you pick." Of course, with a card like that, the victim is entirely at Derren Brown's mercy, and he proceeds to mess with people's minds in preposterous ways, literally driving them insane. Afterwards, he claims the effects are only temporary and they'll be fine... but there's no way to know for sure. It's really pretty sick. Sep 23, 2007
reesetee Cool! But it's not Halloween yet! :-) Sep 23, 2007
uselessness
Sep 23, 2007
arby An ambigram, also sometimes known as an inversion, is a graphical figure that spells out a word not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation. Douglas R. Hofstadter describes an ambigram as a "calligraphic design that manages to squeeze two different readings into the selfsame set of curves." The first published reference to the term was by Hofstadter, who attributes the origin of the word to a friend. The 1999 edition of Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach features a 3-D ambigram on the cover. Jun 23, 2007