Re: Earliest published ambigram?
From Dan Wesely <dwe...@rap.midco.net>
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· 30 Dec 2005 04:27 · View full thread
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Hud Nordin wrote: > In article <4391e12d$0$566$b45...@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>, > <tch...@lsa.umich.edu> wrote: > >>A friend of mine asked for the earliest historical example of an ambigram. <snip> >>Any information on this? > > > Hi. I'm not sure of your qualifications, but I might have a candidate. <snip> > Has anyone else run into this book, this "chump", or an earlier > deliberate ambigram? I've never heard of the book, but I have seen the "chump" thing before. It was in an old "Games" magazine... a quick google says Games was first published in 1977, so that's probably of no help. I don't recall if they said where they got it, either.
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