Listen and silent share their lettersSourced
Not region-specific · English meaning
An anagram changes order while keeping the material
English listen and silent contain the same letters in a different order. This rearrangement is an anagram. Treating letters as movable pieces reveals a relationship that ordinary pronunciation and definitions do not show.
Listening and silence meet in the arrangement of letters.
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