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Letter: More gnilleps

Published 1 February 2006

From Charles E. Stanford

One to add to your set of words that indicate their opposites when spelled backwards: in the navy, a sonar echo is a gnip.

Liverpool, New York, US

Issue no. 2537 published 4 February 2006

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