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Word Lists From A Voyage to Lilliput
The following list outlines the anagrams in Part One of Gulliver's Travels, in order of appearance, with their translation using "the anagrammatic method." Those anagrams marked with an asterisk were discovered by Henrion:
- Lemuel Gulliver = Jonathan Swift*
- Redriff = Ireland*
- Lilliput = Nowhere (i.e., Utopia)
- Hurgo = Baron
- Quinbus Flestrin = General Stanhope
- Ranfu-lo = de Massu (Galway)?
- Flimnap = Maypole (Duchess of Kendal)*
- Reldresal = Granville (Carteret)*
- Galbet = sailor*
B L U S T R U G
B U R S T U L G
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I E B L M N H E
B L E N H E I M
- Blefuscu = Francais*
-- Flanders -- Hibernia
- Skyresh (Skyris) Bolgolam = Robert Walpole
B E L F A B O R A C
B A B O E F R L A C
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L I L A R S E E S U
V E R S A I L L E S
M I L D E N D O
M I N D D L E O
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R O S U U I D N
W I N D S O R
T R A M E C K S A N
T R S N A E A M C C
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T R S N E I E D S S
D I S S E N T E R S
S L A M E C K S A N
S E C N A M A L C S
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A L H T C O C C S L
C A T H O L I C K S
- Lustrog (Lilliputian prophet) = Ridpath
- Blundecral = Flying Post (Whig Journal)
- Drurr (measure) =
- Glumgluff (measure) =
- Nardac = prince
- Burglum (cry of alarm) = Holland
- Glimigrim (a wine) =
- Flunec (a wine) = Stuart?
S N I L P A L L
I L N P A S L L
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M N A C L R I I
C R I M I N A L
- Glumglum = Viscount
- Limtoc = Butler (Duke of Ormonde)
- Lalcon = St. John
- Balmuff = Viceroy*
= Grafton* = Cowper = Halifax
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