Anagram Genius - Part of SynTax Disk 838
                  An Anagram Creator/Solver

             Reviewed by James Judge on a 486sx

Well all know what anagrams are, don't we? It's when you jumble
letters of one (or more) word(s) (or name(s)) to form different
words (or names). So, from my full names you can make Jesus (me,
the Messiah - naah, I don't exist if that's true (erm... confused
myself there nearly)). It's great fun, especially when you get
little gems like

Deny us males!

from our beloved editor's name.

Anyway, this program creates them. There's a shareware version
that'll give you the chance to create 10 anagrams from a lexicon of
35,000 words. After that you have to progress to the full version
for just over œ20 that gets you unlimited anagrams, the chance to
print the raw words and all other little bonuses (including another
45,000 word in your lexicon).

The program is highly self-explanatory and is damn good. You type
in the original text, select whether you want the final offerings
to have a male/female/neutral slant, whether they should be
satirical, normal or flattering, have a computer, business or
political slant, contain vulgar words, words with dropped <h>s (ie
"come 'ere"), be formed of American or British English and a whole
host of other options. You then click on weed, sit back and let the
computer do the rest.

After a few minutes the screen will be full of sentences made up
from your original input - some will be pure nonsense (ie "nude
'e's 'a's" from Sue's name) but others will (with a little
rearranging) be completely usable. And if you are just looking for
one word you can go back to the original list of words that the
computer derived from your text.


All great harmless fun that is easy to use and VERY comprehensive.
The only problem is the registration fee - over œ20 for a Windows
program that will probably be only be used intermittently.

RSUKNAPUWBD

(Anyone who can make a 9 lettered English word from the above is a
very strange person indeed!)











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