SMUS Grade 9 student, Levi Budd

July 1, 2025

Grade 9 student Levi Budd has been making headlines once again — this time for seeing a word he coined at age six officially recognized. Levidrome, a term he created in 2017 to describe a word that forms another valid word when spelled in reverse (like stop and pots), has now been added to the Dictionary of Canadianisms.

Read the full story and learn more about how 'levidrome' has been steadily gaining traction in this article from Victoria News: A Victoria-born word is officially in the dictionary of Canadianisms