Actor William Shatner challenges the game show "Jeopardy" to rename a category, "levidrome"
The push to add a new word invented by a Victoria boy to the Oxford English Dictionary is ramping up again.
"Levidrome" is the creation of Levi Budd, a little boy fascinated by palindromes -- words that spell the same word when read backwards -- like kayak or racecar.
When he realized there was no recognized term for words that take on NEW meaning when spelled backwards -- like room and flow -- he coined the term "levidrome."
Last November a family video about Levi's suggestion caught the attention of Canadian actor William Shatner who began advocating for "levidrome." But nothing happened.
Then last week on Jeopardy -- hosted by another Canadian, Alex Trebek -- the category "Forwards and Backwards" came up. Shatner tweeted the show suggesting "You should change your category to levidrome. It’s a real word and less letters!”
When he didn't hear back Shatner reached out again asking "where's Trebek?"
The show responded that Trebek was "trying to figure out how a six-year-old might get a word in the dictionary before him!”
Oxford Dictionary officials said they would consider the word if it was still being used a year later. CFAX 1070 is checking for an update.