# Longest 3-word palidrome

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**Created:** [March 27, 2017, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-3-word-palidrome/783130 "2017-03-27T09:41:49Z")\
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And **Eve** , of course. But she probably wasn’t choosing it for the palindrome specifically.

And **Hal Briston** is “Not Sir Blah” backwards: He uses both handles in various places online, but I don’t think ever both at once.

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**Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-3-word-palidrome/783130/22 "2017-03-30T02:01:22Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> I Love Me, Vol. I.

Oh right. I should have remembered that one. That was the title of a book on palindromes by a guy named Michael Donner back in 1996. I exchanged email with him for a while after it came out. I’ve often wondered if he was the SDMB member.

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**Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-3-word-palidrome/783130/23 "2017-03-30T02:45:51Z")

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> [@dtilque](#):
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> It’s still a palindrome. We ignore spaces and punctuation for them. Any other SDMB palindromic usernames? I seem to remember there was one more (at least) but can’t remember what it was.

Yes but extending it within the there word limitation of the OP is difficult.

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**Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-3-word-palidrome/783130/24 "2017-03-30T08:09:32Z")

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Well, then it would violate the restriction on any single word being a palindrome. The reason I had that restriction is I wanted to avoid constructions like I suggested in post #8 (a central panlindrome bracketed by a reversal pair). Even so, the one **enalzi** produced is very close to that. The one **walrus** found is the kind of thing I was looking for.

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