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
Marie Waife She married the writer and journalist Benjamin Waife (known by his pen name Ben-Zion Goldberg) in 1917 and had two sons, Sholom and Mitchell. In 1968, Waife published a biography of her father titled "My Father, Sholem Aleichem", the first complete biography of the famous writer. She was known for holding meetings at her New York residence on the anniversary of Aleichem's death to read his works. Waife died in 1985 and was survived by her sons. Marie Waife Marie Waife ("née" Marusi Solomonovna Rabinovich; October 29, 1892 – November 30, 1985) was an American writer best known for writing