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2 unusual facts about Phonetic reversal


Phonetic reversal

On the song by Radiohead "Like Spinning Plates", Thom Yorke actually sings the first verse voiced and sounded out backwards, and then the final cut of the album studio version has that superimposed back-masked as the first verse of the song so it would be cognizant as being sung forward to the listener, albeit with unnatural intonation and inflection apparent in his voice.

Talking backwards

Phonetic reversal, the art of reversing the phonemes or phones of a word or phrase.



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