Scrambled Letters

Back in the mid-80s I worked with an organization in Washington, D.C., called the Association to Unite the Democracies. Darned if I didn't almost always type the name like this by mistake: Association to Untie the Democracies. (It wasn't until a few years later that I heard that amusing play on Karl Marx -- Bad spellers of the world, untie!)

Since then I've run across other scrambles that unintentionally juxtapose the meanings of words. Here are a few more:

• Sacred vs. scared
  
• Profile vs. prolife
  
• Conversation vs. conservation
  
• Feeling vs. fleeing
• Prenatal vs. parental

I found a nice list of these at a site belonging to a guy named Doug Hyte. He calls them jumbles, which is a good name. Doug has played a bit of Scrabble in his life, I'd guess.