2025-04-07
53 分钟You're listening to Away With Words, the show about language and how we use it.
I'm Grant Barrett.
And I'm Martha Barnett.
We asked our listeners to send us names that are anadromes.
Anadrome, you'll remember, is a word that, when spelled backwards, forms a whole new word.
So, for example, maybe a little girl is named Noelle because she has an older relative named Leon.
And boy did our listeners oblige.
We heard from Debbie Trail in St. Charles, Illinois, who pointed out that Nomar Garse...
who played for the Boston Red Sox in the 1990s,
he was a great shortstop, was named after his father Ramon.
So Nomar is named after Ramon.
And we should point out too that he also has the good fortune to be married to the soccer star Mia Hamm.
Whose first name backward is AIM, A-I-M.
And if I remember correctly, she had great AIM on the soccer pitch.
She had fantastic AIM, good point.
And then we also heard from Karen Corley, who tweets at Logical Poet.
And she said, my fave is the elderly Eldine,
who was named for her mother's great skill and love of sewing.
That's Eldine, E-L-D-E-E-N, Eldine.
Oh, I like that.