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Monday, May 16, 2005

Word Play - Palindromania

A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same forward and backward. RADAR, NOON and RACECAR are single word palindromes. They're fun and fairly easy to think of.

The real challenge lies in forming palindrome pharases. MADAM, I'M ADAM and A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL -- PANAMA are two well-known examples.

The following list of palindromes is excerpted from www.fun-with-words.com.

Don't nod
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!
A Toyota! Race fast... safe car: a Toyota
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
Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus
Some men interpret nine memos
Campus Motto: Bottoms up, Mac
Madam, in Eden I'm Adam
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Do geese see God?
God saw I was dog

Send me your best original palindromes for a future feature!

3 Comments:

  • Next time you should find your own palindromes, they are not that hard to make, ok heres one.
    Dad, Alas, a salad ad!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:36 AM  

  • Hey kool i lyke tat 1, thnx for helping me with my project!!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:39 AM  

  • Ok if you liked that one, here another.

    Madam, I am ill. I've nine men in evil Lima. I'm Adam.

    and another.

    Gateman sees name, garageman sees name tag.

    You try.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:42 AM  

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