Lexagram Party for Selena Gomez

This week, Selena Gomez released two new songs that seemingly address her breakup with Justin Bieber. In a People magazine article, Gomez asks fans to ‘be kind’ after hailey baldwin receives hate.

Join us in a Lexagram Party to peer inside the words hidden in the name of her new song and look for clues that reveal how her name reflects her life as work as a group to explore the phrase “LOOK AT HER NOW” BY SELENA MARIE GOMEZ.

This mini-workshop lets you sample the basics of lexagrams or practice your skills with name-based wordplay. Spend an hour with others finding hidden meaning in the names of celebrities, historical figures and famous places.

For this session, review the QuickStart handout that explains the basics of how to lexagram. Refer to this toolbox of Rare Words, Long Words, Connector words and Basic Words that are found in our source phrase.

About Our Subject

SELENA MARIE GOMEZ (born July 22, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and executive producer.After appearing on the children’s series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), she received wider recognition for her portrayal of Alex Russo on the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place, which aired from 2007 until 2012. Gomez also starred in the films Another Cinderella Story (2008), Princess Protection Program (2009), Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (2009), Ramona and Beezus (2010), and Monte Carlo (2011). Thereafter, she focused on more mature roles in Spring Breakers (2012), Getaway (2013), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016), and The Dead Don’t Die (2019). She voices the character of Mavis in the Hotel Transylvania film franchise, and serves as an executive producer of the Netflix television drama series 13 Reasons Why (2017–present) and the Netflix documentary series Living Undocumented (2019). (Source: Wikipedia).

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The letters in a name or phrase can form many other words. Several descriptive lexagrams can be made from them and, when place together, can create a biographical perspective. A lexagram (or lexigram) is a form of wordplay where the letters in a name or phrase are shuffled to create new words. These new words make short statements that, ideally, describe the original term. For example, the word ASTRONOMICAL has letters to make the words STAR, SOLAR, and CORONA, as well as to create each word in the phrases AN ASTRAL SAILOR IN NASA and ROMANTIC MOONLIT MARTIAN CANALS. Look for where the letters in each word can be found in ASTRONOMICAL. To make a lexagram, find words hidden in the letters of your name or a short phrase, then use those terms to make sentences that describe the original name. To make it easy to read, the original phrase and any words found within it are CAPITALIZED.

When searching for words-within-words, shuffling the sequence of letters in the name or phrase is very helpful. While an online generator is great to quickly obtain a list of candidate words which are valid for lexagrams or anagrams, there is much fun to be found in searching for words yourself! Changing the sequence of the letters in a phrase give our brains a fresh perspective on the situation. New words will seem to jump out after simply re-arranging the letters into a new pattern. Rearrange the letters carefully and find new words. Continue exploring by studying the sequences of letters in this name.

Make your own lexagrams. Read about it and look for key words hidden in the letters of the phrase.