Anagram for pointed and satiric effect. Pseudonyms adopted by authors are sometimes transposed forms of their names; thus "Calvinus" becomes "Alcuinus" (here V = U) or "François Rabelais" = "Alcofribas Nasier". The name "Voltaire" of François Marie Arouet fits this pattern, and is allowed to be an anagram of "Arouet, l[e] j[eune]" (U = V, J = I) that is, "Arouet the younger". Other examples include Several of these are "imperfect anagrams", letters having been left out in some cases for the sake of easy pronunciation. Anagrams used for titles afford scope for some types of wit. Examples: In Hebrew, the
French ship Héros (1778) French ship Héros (1778) Héros was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, known mostly for being the flagship of Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez during the Anglo-French War. She was built in 1778 at Toulon on a design by Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb. In 1781 she became part of Suffren's force, consisting of the 16-gun frigate "Fortune", five ships of the line, eight troopships and a thousand soldiers, all entrusted with carrying the French war effort into the Indian Ocean. The other warships were one other 74 gun ship (the "Annibal") and three 64-gun ships (the