In 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', the name Tom Marvolo Riddle hides the anagram 'I am Lord Voldemort'. That couldn't survive translation as it stood. So French translator Jean-François Ménard invented 'Tom Elvis Jedusor', a perfect anagram of 'Je suis Voldemort'. Spanish went for Tom Sorvolo Ryddle ('Soy Lord Voldemort'), and Italian for Tom Orvoloson Riddle ('Son io Lord Voldemort').
In Kuşköy, a mountain village in northern Turkey, people talk across valleys by whistling Turkish. A 2015 study showed that whistled Turkish draws on both hemispheres fairly evenly, whereas spoken Turkish relies mostly on the left. The physical form of the signal, it turns out, matters to the brain.
Speech has no gaps between words. In 1996, researchers played 8-month-old babies a continuous stream of made-up syllables for just two minutes. The infants picked out the 'words' by tracking which syllables tend to follow one another. That's probability calculation, done without a calculator or any visible effort.