CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
The implication of this book title, Cat Spelled Backwards Doesn't Spell God, is that D-O-G spelled backwards is God. Yet contrary to common belief, that's wrong. "No, I don’t think that Dog is God spelled backwards" says Roberta Lee, DD., PhD., ND. Plus, keep in mind that "a word spelled backwards is not a name, and furthermore, if it's a wonderful word spelled backwards, does that [not] imply that the name is the opposite of the wonderful word? Don't do this" (Duana Taha, The Name Therapist, 2016).