A palindrome is a word, phrase, verse or sentence in which the letters
appear in the same order in both directions, forward and backward. Here
are some examples of single-word palindromes:
deified
eye
kayak
level
madam
radar
repaper
reviver
rotator
sexes
The longest English-language palindrome on record is a verse more than
10,000 words long! Here are a few examples of some considerably shorter
multi-word palindromes:
Madam, I’m Adam.
A man, a plan, a canal — Panama!
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
Never odd or even.
A dog! A panic in a pagoda!
Emil, asleep, peels a lime.
Many of these palindromes seem profound and Zen-like in their simple
inscrutability. (You will notice that in the typical palindrome game, punctuation
and spaces don’t count.)
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