Editing Anagram (section)

===Influence of Latin===
As a literary game when Latin was the common property of the literate, Latin anagrams were prominent.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://medium.com/in-medias-res/secrets-of-a-lost-art-part-1-latin-anagrams-aa05739e5400 |title = Secrets of a Lost Art, part 1: Latin Anagrams - in Medias Res|date = 6 May 2018}}</ref> Two examples are the change of ''[[Ave Maria]], gratia plena, Dominus tecum'' (Latin: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord [is] with you) into ''Virgo serena, pia, munda et immaculata'' (Latin: Serene [[virginity of Mary|virgin]], pious, clean and [[Immaculate Conception|spotless]]), and the anagrammatic answer to [[Pilate]]'s question, ''Quid est veritas?'' (Latin: What is truth?), namely, ''Est vir qui adest'' (Latin: It is the man who is here). The origins of these are not documented.

Latin continued to influence letter values (such as I = J, U = V and W = VV). There was an ongoing tradition of allowing anagrams to be "perfect" if the letters were all used once, but allowing for these interchanges. This can be seen in a popular Latin anagram against the [[Jesuits]]: ''Societas Jesu'' turned into ''Vitiosa seces'' (Latin: Cut off the wicked things). Puttenham, in the time of [[Elizabeth I]], wished to start from ''Elissabet Anglorum Regina'' (Latin: Elizabeth Queen of the English), to obtain ''Multa regnabis ense gloria'' (Latin: By thy sword shalt thou reign in great renown); he explains carefully that H is "a note of [[Aspirated consonant|aspiration]] only and no letter", and that Z in [[Zeta|Greek]] or Hebrew is a mere SS. The rules were not completely fixed in the 17th century. [[William Camden]] in his ''Remains'' commented, singling out some letters—[[Æ]], K, W, and Z—not found in the classical [[Roman alphabet]]:<ref>Cited in Henry Benjamin Wheatley, ''Of anagrams: a monograph treating of their history'' (1862); [https://archive.org/details/ofanagramsmonogr00wheauoft online text.]</ref>

{{Blockquote|The precise in this practice strictly observing all the parts of the definition, are only bold with H either in omitting or retaining it, for that it cannot challenge the right of a letter. But the Licentiats somewhat licentiously, lest they should prejudice poetical liberty, will pardon themselves for doubling or rejecting a letter, if the sence fall aptly, and  "think it no injury to use E for Æ; V for W; S for Z, and C for K, and contrariwise.|William Camden|''Remains''}}