These are just a few of the mind-boggling anagrams that Web browsers can find on the Internet. Computer-generated anagrams are becoming longer, cleverer and funnier as special software, first written in 1988, has steadily improved.
Anagrams have a long history.
In the 13th century, Jewish mystics called cabalists thought that reciting letters from the Hebrew alphabet in different orders could create human beings from dust and work miracles. In the early 17th century, Louis XIII appointed a Royal Anagrammist at a fabulous salary. Returning to England, he turned his attention to the difficult and intriguing challenge of using a computer to find anagrams from words, phrases and names. In 1988 he developed Anagram Genius software. Both services are free.