Not long ago in India, BJP supporters of the prime minister put it out that following this rule, ‘Narendra Modi’ was ‘a Rare Diamond’. They were quickly corrected by language mavens who pointed out that the prime minister’s name contained an extra N and the correct anagram would be ‘Rare Diamond? Na!’ Political opponents of the PM leapt at the opportunity to come up with ‘a modern drain’ and ‘a modern nadir’.
