Signing is. (That’s palindrome for “sure”!)
PS: Leaves use veal.
Great, I love it, but you can’t reverse a beginning and an ending if there is no ending…
OK, I didn’t say they had to make sense… and lots of them don’t.
But, a six is a six is a six is a tub!
From the world of baseball: Toby Harrah, Robb Nen, Mark Salas,
From tennis: Monica Seles
Television executive: David Tebet
Language spoken in India: Malayalam
Three-time Burmese prime minister: U Nu
My cousin Jon’s daughter: Emily Lime
Once listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s longest palindrome:
Georges Perec, known for writing a whole book without using the letter e, also wrote a rather long French palindrome. I don’t speak French, but I’d be interested in knowing what it says–it even looks kind of like it’s “readable” for a palindrome, if you know what I mean:
A few well-known Dutch ones.
parterretrap (ground floor stairs)
droomoord (dream place)
Nelli plaatst op 'n parterretrap 'n pot staalpillen (Nelli places on the ground floor stairs a pot of iron pills)
One of my favorites:
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, hero’s rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe,
percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a cat, a mane, paper, a
Toyota, rep, a pen, a mat, a can, a tag, a banana bag again, or: a camel,
a crepe, pins, spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a
canal, Panama!
Deified.
Why is the word palindrome, not itself, a palindrome?
For the same reason that there’s no synonym for “thesaurus.”
I didn’t see this one up above, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t there.
Sometimes attributed to Napolean (but I doubt it):
Able was I ere I saw Elba"
I, madam! I made radio! So I dared! Am I mad, am I?
Dad, sis, bib, did, gig, nun, pup, pip, tit, tut, wow, yay,
But of course those are just the mom and pop type paindromes.
it was a pun.
read me Dr. Memory?
A lyric from the album Kew. Rhone. by John Greaves and Peter Blegvad:
Peel’s foe, not a set animal, laminates a tone of sleep.
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(I’ve loved palindromes since I was a kid. When I was about 10, I read a book about how some guy named Robert Trebor who collected palindromes, and I tried to make my own, many of which looked like the one above.)
But why is the word ‘dictionary’ in the dictionary?
Another of my favourite palindromes goes something like:
“Good morning”, said the alien physician, “my name is Doctor Rotcodsiemanym Naicisyhpnneilaehtdias Gninromdoog!”
Wow that’s uncanny.
No to to forget aibohphobia, which is obviously the medical term for pathological fear of palindromes.
I thought that would have been morbit fear of palsied robotic dogs.