Friday, October 07, 2005

Palindromes

There are word-for-word (WW) and letter-for-letter (LL) palindromes.
Here are a few:

Norma is as selfless as I am, Ron.---LL
Women understand men; few men understand women.---WW
You can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you. ---WW
A man, a plan a canal, Panama.--- LL
Dog as a devil deified; deified lived as a God.---LL--(John Barth)
Dennis Krats and Edna Stark sinned.--- LL
Bores are people that say that people are bores.---WW
God knows man. What is doubtful is what man knows God.--- WW

Single words:
Racecar, noon, radar, toot, kook, deified, etc.

Palindromic statements that make any sense at all are very hard to come up with in our language (with its 600.000 words!)

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