Kangaroo word a word that contains its antonym; for example: "covert" carries "overt", "animosity" carries "amity". Some compilers require that the letters of the joey word not be consecutive within the kangaroo word, or that the kangaroo and joey words must be etymologically unrelated. Kangaroo words were originally popularized as a word game by Ben O'Dell in an article for "The American Magazine", volume 151, during the 1950s. This was later reprinted in "the Reader's Digest". Kangaroo word A kangaroo word is a word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning. For example: the word "masculine" contains
Iran (word) Iran (word) The modern Persian name of Iran () derives immediately from 3rd-century Sassanian Middle Persian (Pahlavi spelling: "ʼyrʼn"), where it initially meant "of the Iranians", but soon also acquired a geographical connotation in the sense of "(lands inhabited by) Iranians". In both geographic and demonymic senses, "ērān" is distinguished from its antonymic "anērān", meaning "non-Iran(ian)". In the geographic sense, "ērān" was also distinguished from "ērānšahr", the Sassanians' own name for their empire, and which also included territories that were not primarily inhabited by ethnic Iranians. The word "ērān" is first attested in the inscriptions that accompany the investiture relief