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The sankofa symbol. Sankofa (pronounced SAHN-koh-fah) is a word in the Twi language of Ghana meaning “to retrieve" (literally "go back and get"; san - to return; ko - to go; fa - to fetch, to seek and take) and also refers to the Bono Adinkra symbol represented either with a stylized heart shape or by a bird with its head turned backwards while its feet face forward carrying a precious egg ...
Looking Backward: 2000–1887 is a utopian [1] time travel [2] science fiction novel by the American journalist and writer Edward Bellamy first published in 1888. [ 3 ] The book was translated into several languages, and in short order "sold a million copies."
Grammar Guy Curtis Honeycutt talks about words that are really just backwards words of other words.
The word anadrome comes from Greek anádromos (ἀνάδρομος), "running backward", and can be compared to palíndromos (παλίνδρομος), "running back again" (whence palindrome).
Some syllables like 응 (yes), 표 (ticket/signage) or 를 (object particle), and words like "허리피라우" (straighten your back) also make full ambigrams. The han character meaning "hundred" is written 百, that makes a natural 90° rotational ambigram when the glyph makes a quarter turn counterclockwise, one sees "100". [53]
Backwardism is a derogatory comment intended to brand an ideology as stained by backwardness. [1] While the term has been applied to literature, politics and religion, its precise definition remains unclear.
Lawd "Lawd" is an alternative spelling of the word "lord" and an expression often associated with Black churchgoers. It is used to express a range of emotions, from sadness to excitement.
The backslash \ is a mark used mainly in computing and mathematics.It is the mirror image of the common slash /.It is a relatively recent mark, first documented in the 1930s