A palindrome is a word or sentence that
reads the same forward and backward.
When deciding if something is a
palindrome or not, punctuation is considered not to count. So, “Madam, I’m Adam”
is allowed.
They can be quite simple—racecar, Hannah,
eye, radar—or quite complicated: Go hang a salami. I’m a lasagna hog.
They can even be whole words: Women
understand men. Few men understand women.
Possibly the best-known palindrome is, “A
man. A plan. A canal. Panama.”
Palindromes were popular in ancient times.
There’s even a 2D palindrome still around from Ancient Rome (see the graphic
above).
Some people get excited about palindromic
dates too. Like February 2, 2020: 02/02/2020.
The
Simpsons did an episode on “Rise to vote, sir”.
Feel free to have some fun designing your own.
Helen Woodall
Helen is available to line edit and/ or content edit fiction and
non-fiction. Rates on application.
2 comments:
I love palindromic dates! There was one yesterday (mostly): 21.11.12
Unfortunately none of the word ones I've ever tried to think up make much sense.
Deborah
Even if they don't make sense, it can still be fun trying!
Helen
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