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Palindromes
What are palindromes? They
are words or phrases that read the same backward as forward.
The word "bib" is a palindrome for example, as is the
phrase "Madam, I'm Adam." Look carefully at the latter
and you'll see that the letters are in the same order in both
directions. The word, by the way, is derived from the Greek "palíndromos,"
meaning "running back again."
A List Of Palindromes
(One Word)
RACECAR
DEED
LEVEL
PIP
ROTOR
CIVIC
POP
MADAM
EYE
NUN
RADAR
TOOT
KAYAK
NOON
POOP
SOLOS
POP
TOT
MOM
DAD
Single words that are palindromes
are relatively easy to find. For example, to find the three-letter
palindromes, just work your way through the alphabet, placing
each vowel between a pair of each letter, to see if it is a word,
or test the consonants between pairs of vowels. Thus "a"
gives us "aba," "aha," "ala" and
the name "Ana" (and a few more). "B" is good
for "bob," "bib" and "bub."
It gets a little more difficult
to find longer single-word palindromes. It is much more difficult
when it comes to phrases or sentences, like the ones below.
A List Of Palindromes (Phrases)
Bar crab
Borrow or rob?
Straw warts
Live evil
A man, a plan, a canal--Panama!
Delia failed.
Dennis sinned.
Evil olive
Pull up if I pull up.
Step on no pets.
Ten animals I slam in a net.
Was it a bat I saw?
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
They are fun to read, but if
you really want to exercise your brainpower, try inventing your
own palindromes.
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