Saturday, February 5, 2011

anamonic

anamonic (plural anamonics)

  1. A mnemonic used for recalling lists of words, particularly in Scrabble, consisting of a "stem" of base letters and an accompanying phrase, each of whose letters can combine with the stem to form an anagram of a word.
    For example, the DAMOSEL stem only appears in the second of the two Internet lists mentioned above. The given anamonic is PRIZED GALS. — Andrew Fisher and David Webb, The Art of Scrabble (2004)

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