Pijom

PIJOM - a word that when turned, (not mirrored) upside down spells "WORLD"
By it's own description then, pijom means: to turn the world upside down, or to look at something with a new perspective.
This was discovered thanks to the technology of OCR(Optical character recognition)that translates "images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text (usually captured by a scanner) into machine-editable text." (http://en. .org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition) With the popularity of the internet, and the amount of documents that have been scanned and read with this technology glitches are bound to happen.
The 5 letter, phonetically pronounceable, word pijom is readable by the OCR software when a document is translated upside down. Any online search engine will bring up documents that have pijom highlighted as it is found.
Phenomenons like this are not too out of the ordinary. With the popular use of calculator in the early 1970's a common past time while bored in math class involved discovering words using digits upside down. This became known as beghilos. (http://en. .org/wiki/Calculator_spelling)
It is also an art form to invert words with fanciful text so that upon turning it upside down it would either read the same or as some other word. These are called ambigrams. (http://en. .org/wiki/Ambigram)
Backmasking, a technique that the Beatles made popular, takes recordings and finds words when they are played in reverse.
There is no current name for phonetically prounounceable words that OCR technology discovers. Admittedly, much gibberish is seen when words are turned upside down. However, it is unique when a phonetically pronounceable word is uncovered.

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