Sir Paul McCartney may be rich, albeit  £24 million poorer than before his recent divorce, but I bet he hasn't got a ganmaar. Ganmaar, you see, isn't a real word; it's an anagram - of anagram. Yes, I know that's cheating, but it's surely a more honest kind of cheating than Vladimir Nabokov's "anagram" of his name: "Dorian Vivalcomb". Call that an anagram? Where's the "k" gone, then? And "Vivalcomb" isn't a name or even a word, so it doesn't work.  Don't give up your day job, Dorian. Thanks to idipewkia for that little snippet.

What is the point, in any case, of a pseudonym that is merely an anagram of your real name? You'll be rumbled in no time. I was told once of a Jewish refugee who, during the war, changed his name from an unacceptably German "Wolfmar" to a less than inconspicuous "Marflow". What a schmo.

Anagrams have their place - in crosswords, for example. But they are rarely, if ever, funny, because they always sound contrived. Typically feeble  is the anagram of  "Elvis Aaron Presley": "Seen alive? Sorry, pal." Nobody would say that.  A notable exception is the former Conservative Health Secretary, Virginia Bottomley, whose name anagrams into "I'm an evil Tory bigot." She never said that, but others did, and often.

As well as non-existent humour, people find non-existent messages in anagrams. Which brings me back to Sir Paul McCartney. From The Telegraph:

Fans of Sir Paul McCartney believe the fomer Beatle makes hidden references to his divorce from Heather Mills on his latest album.

The title of the song Mister Bellamy is an anagram for Mills Betray Me, posters on an internet forum devoted to Sir Paul have pointed out.

Besides the anagram, fans also noted suggestive lines in the sixth track on the album Memory Almost Full.

"I'm not coming down, no matter what you do," one line says. Another reads: "No-one to tell me what to do, no-one to hold my hand."

One contributor wrote: "Macca wouldn't be so blunt as to write a song specifically about someone (or a situation) and then say so, but you'd have to be a fool not to understand that he does write these songs."

Another added: "He may not have consciously written about her, but the words certainly seem to apply."

A third urged Sir Paul to release the song as a single in revenge for the divorce from Miss Mills, which cost him £24.3 million.

"Go for it Paul," the fan wrote. "If you release this as your next single, millions of your fans will be right behind you."

However, the song title is also an anagram for almost 18,000 other phrases in English.

Writing on his website to promote the album, Sir Paul, 65, commented earlier: "Who is Mr Bellamy? Well, I never know who these people are.

"Who is Chuck and Dave from When I'm 64? Who is Eleanor Rigby? Who is Desmond and Molly from Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da? I don't know, I just make them up."

You don't say.

Update: For avoidance of doubt, the stuff about Nabokov was .... a joke. His Holy Memory is not being insulted.