I would have gotten to “a myriad” and wondered what I could fit 10,000 of into a rowboat. Paper clips?
Wow. You guys are good.
“I did, did I?”
That’s all I’ve got.
This rings a bell, I think Stephen Fry tackled this very thing in one of his early newspaper columns and I seem to recall that was the winner. I must dig out “Paperweight” and see if I can find that chapter, he had some corkers I think.
Aha, here we are!
“It’s Ade, Cilla, Sue, Dame Vita, Edna, Nino, Emo! Come on in and eat, I’ve made us all iced asti”
“Rettebs, I flahd noces, eh? Ttu, but the second half is better”
Is there a word for phonetic palindromes, not specifically letter ones? I’ve only come with one, and it’s not even complete at that: kitchen/chicken (the “t” in “kitchen” is phonetically part of “ch”).
I’m trying to get this game going, but everyone I harangue seems to find it boring…
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but I don’t see how kitchen/chicken is a palindrome. It can be a spoonerism, though. (However, “chicken neck itch” would more-or-less work as your phoentic palindrome, I think.)
The fact that there’s not a “longest palindrome” does not in any way imply that every string of letters can be included in a palindrome.
Simple proof by contradiction that there’s no longest palindrome: Assume that you have found the longest palindrome. Find the middle. Insert " I ", or “saw was” or any other simple palindromic phrase. You did not in fact have the longest palindrome.
Needless corrrection to my own most recent posting: the new genre of palindromes I’m willing to spread cost-free should be called “phonemic”, not “phonetic” palindromes.