Larry Osterman's WebLog

The conversation that lead up to the assignment was probably reminiscent of the Major Major Major Major section in Catch-22.

The Washington Post mentioned this last Wednesday: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/26/AR2005102600311.html

And the Daily News reported that NPR was confused and reported her as being indicted:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/360722p-307363c.html


LIBBY CONFUSION: Who can blame National Public Radio anchor Noah Adams for mistakenly reporting the federal indictment of "Libby Lewis" on Friday's "Day to Day" program? Libby Lewis - as opposed to Lewis (Scooter) Libby - is an NPR reporter who's been covering the legal troubles of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff. Lewis, who claims no silly nickname, never worried that she had been indicted.

"I have a very good lawyer," she told me.

So, open question: is there an english word for names that can be reversed like this and still work? My own name falls into this category, as does Fletcher Christian.