Word Ways
Abstract
The next presidential shift will occur in the year of Arthur C. Clarke's classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The letters in the name of the rogue computer, HAL, can be shifted forward one letter in the alphabet to produce IBM: HAL(1)IBM. This is probably the most widely celebrated case of alleged letter shifting, although Clarke denies any intentionality. Rivaling this is notoriety is the shifting of FBI by six letters to obtain LHO, the initials of Lee Harvey Oswald, something numerologists love to link with the sixth floor from which the shooting took place: F BI(6)LHO.
Recommended Citation
Zerger, Monte J.
(1997)
"Presidential Letter Shifts,"
Word Ways: Vol. 30
:
Iss.
4
, Article 16.
Retrieved from:
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol30/iss4/16