Merriam-Webster once had a card catalog of 315,000 words spelled backward

If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every word spelled backwards. While this sounds absurd, there's an excellent reason that only makes sense if you're old enough to remember looking things up before computers. — Read the rest

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