Friday, April 4, 2008

(TMBG) I Palindrome I (GBMT?)

Some well-known palindromes:

Madam, I'm Adam.
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.



A few of my own devising (not all of which make any sense):

A BERYL TREVOR OVERTLY REBA
EEL FOR OVERT TREVOR OF LEE
S.N. RUFO STOLE LOTS OF URNS.
"HARASS LIARS!" RAILS SARAH.
DALY: "MEG, NEVER REVENGE MY LAD."
O, MY BABY MO! or AI! MY BABY MIA!
ERIS EDWARDS, DRAW "DESIRE."
DOC. ASTA, EDNA ELBA TASTES REGAL LAGER, SETS A TABLE, AND EATS A COD.

Another, which has multiple variations:

EVE WENT: "I SAW PAM'S MAP." -- "WAS IT NEW, EVE?"
Here, EVE may be replaced with HANNAH, DAD, ANNA, HE/EH ("WAS IT NEW? EH?"), &c.
Also, PAM'S MAP may be replaced with ELBA'S SABLE, MUM'S MUM, GOD'S DOG, LIAM'S MAIL, A RAM, MARA, &c.
(e.g., HANNAH WENT: "I SAW A RAM, MARA." -- "WAS IT NEW, HANNAH?")




Some palindromic word pairs:

BRO'S ORB, DOCK COD, DROLL LORD, ERROL LORRE, GNUS SUNG, LLAMA MALL, NEW WEN, POT'S TOP, PUT UP, RAT STAR, REGINA NIGER, SETON NOTES, SNUG GUNS, STORY ROTS, TANGY GNATS


And some single-word palindromes (including names, affixes, initialisms, contractions, and interjections):

3-letter: ADA, AGA, AHA, A.K.A., ANA, AVA, BIB, BOB, BUB, DAD, DID, DUD, EKE, -ENE, ERE, -ESE, ETE, EVE , EWE, EYE, GAG, GIG, HAH, HEH, H.O.H., HUH, ICI, LIL, L.O.L., MIM, MOM, MUM, NAN, N.I.N., NON-, NUN, OHO, ORO, PAP, PEP, PIP, POP, PUP, SIS, S.O.S., TAT, TET, TIT, TOT, TUT, VIV, WOW, YAY

4-letter: ABBA, ANNA, BOOB, DEED, ECCE, ELLE, ESSE, -ETTE, KOOK, MA'AM, NOON, OTTO, PEEP, POOP, SEES, SUUS, TOOT

5-letter: MADAM, RADAR

6-letter: HANNAH, REDDER

7-letter: RACECAR, REVIVER




And finally, some links:

http://www.rinkworks.com/words/palindromes.shtml
http://www.palindromelist.com/
http://thinks.com/words/palindromes.htm
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Palindromic_words
http://www.fun-with-words.com/palindromes.html

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