
The synthetic fiber spandex was named so precisely because of what it does. Spandex is an anagram, a shuffling of a word’s letters to create a new word, of the word “expands”. Interestingly, the term “spandex” only caught on in the land of its invention: North America. via Pocket http://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/which-widely-used-products-name-is-an-anagram-of-its-function/
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