Palindrome and Example
Palindromes were invented in about 400 BC. The word palindrome is derived from the Greek palindromos, meaning running back again (palin = AGAIN + drom–, dramein = RUN). A palindrome is a word, verse, sentence or poem which reads the same backwards as it does forwards.
One of the mose famous and most correct palindromes is “Able was I ere I saw Elba”. Words like LIVE and STRAW (which read EVIL and WARTS backwards) are not themselves palindromes but the “phrases” LIVE EVIL and STRAW WARTS are. Occasionally these are also traditional palindromes, such as in I DID, DID I. The concept of palindromes can also be extended to sequences and strings.
When creating reversible sentences, it is usually accepted that punctuation and word spacings are ignored, and so the famous MADAM, I’M ADAM is a valid palindrome.
Other Palindrome examples:
Don’t nod
Dogma: I am God
Never odd or even
Too bad – I hid a boot
Rats live on no evil star
No trace; not one carton
Was it Eliot’s toilet I saw?
Murder for a jar of red rum
May a moody baby doom a yam?
Go hang a salami; I’m a lasagna hog!
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!
A Toyota! Race fast… safe car: a Toyota
Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
Doc Note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod
No, it never propagates if I set a gap or prevention
Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus
Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak
Some men interpret nine memos
Campus Motto: Bottoms up, Mac
Go deliver a dare, vile dog!
Madam, in Eden I’m Adam
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
Ah, Satan sees Natasha
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Do geese see God?
God saw I was dog
Dennis sinned
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