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Below are examples of antigrams:ĮNJOY THE BOOK. If you love reading Atkins Bookshelf, you will love reading the book - Serendipitous Discoveries from the Bookshelf. The beautifully-designed book (416 pages) is a celebration of literature, books, fascinating English words and phrases, inspiring quotations, literary trivia, and valuable life lessons. A classic example of an antigram is “Santa = Satan.” Another one is “funeral = real fun” - which always lightens the mood at a gloomy funeral. An antigram is a type of anagram that is the antonym of the original word or phrase. For example, “inch” is an anagram of “chin.” The anagram, of course, is at the heart of board games like Scrabble, Clabbers, Boggle, and Bananagrams and puzzles like Jumble and Cryptic Crosswords. You are probably familiar with an anagram, one of the most popular forms of word play that recombines all the letters of a word or phrase to create a new word or phrase.