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“Some of us take great delight in words: in playing with them, examining their histories, listening to their sounds; turning them backwards, inside out, or upside-down; rhyming them, meaning two things at once with them, taking them apart and putting them together. Have you ever laughed at a headline that didn’t say quite what its writer intended? Have you ever wondered which words look the same upside-down as right-side-up? Have you ever used a word without knowing what it meant, just because you liked the sound of it? If so, this column is for you.”