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Great word, though a tad disappointed that levidrome is not, itself a levidrome.

Thanks Levi, I hope to see your new term in everyday parlance in Parliament! #Victoria - Dan Albas November 23, 2017 Now I have added the term 'levidrome' to my lexicon, thanks to a 6 year old named Levi Budd. I will post a #levidrome every day so that webster adds it in the dictionary- November 26, 2017 Don't stop* & he will nab* his just desserts* & reward*! *=a Levidrome - William Shatner November 23, 2017 Keep* using #Levidrome in your Twitter flow*. I am* now* happy to deliver* & debut* a recap* on the dream of a smart* boy* who took a stab* at* what he* saw* in words. nXhfbVlAE7- Oxford Dictionaries November 23, 2017Īnd just like that, the Internet was up for a challenge: #Levidrome, a name for a word which makes a different word when spelled backwards, was brought to our attention by and a couple of weeks ago. Listen to the latest songs, only on Rebecca Jaganaru, an assistant editor with Oxford, replied to Levi on Twitter promising, "If, in a year or so, lots of people are still using your word, it might well get into our dictionary." The precocious kid then asked his parents what to call a word that spells another word backwards. One day, sitting in the backseat of the car, Levi noticed the word "stop" on a stop sign read "pots" in reverse. Levi's father, Robert Lucky Budd, in a short video on YouTube explained the genesis of the word levidrome.

While it's surprising that there's not a word for this already, the Internet is rallying behind young Levi after an editor at Oxford Dictionaries suggested the word could only be added to dictionaries after it was used commonly over a period of time. Other examples include loop and pool, flow and wolf, stop and pots and finally, rats and star. Truth be told, our favourite levidrome is "stressed" which is "desserts" spelt backwards. Canada's Levi Budd came up with the word "levidrome" to describe a word that spells another word when spelt backwards. A six-year-old has invented a new word and now, a campaign to get the word in the dictionary is viral.