This came up during a recent game of Trivial Pursu...

This came up during a recent game of Trivial Pursuit (from memory): “How many of the 14 lines of David Shulman’s sonnet ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’ are anagrams of the title?” The answer? 14. Yes, it’s a “14-line rhyming sonnet in which every line is an anagram of the title.” Even Douglas Hofstadter is impressed.

Submitted by crazymonk on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 5:00am.

Comments (8)

whoa

melinda | Tue, 01/06/2009 - 8:11pm

I was also impressed by the fact that the original genus edition is so well known that most people reading this blog can answer this question even though I won't ask the whole thing:

What do you call the citizens of ___?

Jon May | Tue, 01/06/2009 - 8:40pm

It might be "inhabitants of."

crazymonk | Tue, 01/06/2009 - 9:08pm

yeah, you're right. damn.

Jon May | Tue, 01/06/2009 - 10:03pm

lesbosians?

leum | Fri, 01/09/2009 - 10:03pm

yup

Jon May | Sat, 01/10/2009 - 9:04pm

Here's a word that I found while on wikipedia: demonym. It seems to be the name of the inhabitant of a certain geographical area... new mexican, bengali, danish, lesbosian, greek etc. I, however, don't seem to see this word in normal dictionaries.

nach | Sun, 01/11/2009 - 7:52pm

Nacho, isn't basically every name for the inhabitant of a certain area a demonym? Are there any that aren't?

RD | Sun, 01/11/2009 - 10:34pm