Palindromes

Do you know what palindromes are? They are the words or even phrases which you can read both sides: pop, pip, tat, radar, level, civic, madam, refer, rotator,etc. Now, sir, a war is won. Dennis and Edna sinned. Mad? Am I, madam? Adam, I'm Ada. Poor Dan is in a droop. He lived as a devil, eh? Try to read all that stuff back to front. Can you make up some more? Are there any palindromes in your languages? My native language is Ukrainian and we have palindromes too. For example, Я несу гусеня. It means: I am carrying a gosling. Now your turn:)

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  • Read Dan Brown's 'Angel and Demon' to find bright examples of Palindromes.

  • Thanks, Valentine for the explanation.

    I'm interested to know it, too.



  • saba said:

    Sorry, Valentina


    I think sauce and cake are not palindromes. They can't be read  both sides, just the same in pronunciation.
    saba said:

    sauce and cake in English

    sas and shepesh in Persian meaning bedbug and louse respectively.

    I'm not sure, but maybe we could distinguish graphic and phonemic types. Sauce[so:s], for example, isn't a graphic palindrome but it is a phonemic one. As for "cake[keik]" I'm not sure about the diphthong, whether we can pronounce it both directions in the same way [ei] or not. If we consider it as one sound though not homogeneous (it makes one syllable), then [keik] is a phonemic palindrome. But I'm not a big expert here. Perhaps there are some British, American or Australian linguists who can judge better. I'd like to know their opinion.

    Palindromes
    Do you know what palindromes are? They are the words or even phrases which you can read both sides: pop, pip, tat, radar, level, civic, madam, refer,…
  • Sorry, Valentina


    I think sauce and cake are not palindromes. They can't be read  both sides, just the same in pronunciation.
    saba said:

    sauce and cake in English

    sas and shepesh in Persian meaning bedbug and louse respectively.

    Palindromes
    Do you know what palindromes are? They are the words or even phrases which you can read both sides: pop, pip, tat, radar, level, civic, madam, refer,…


  • Josef Essberger said:

    Race Car Is A Palindrome

    Which car do you mean - a Toyota?:)

    Palindromes
    Do you know what palindromes are? They are the words or even phrases which you can read both sides: pop, pip, tat, radar, level, civic, madam, refer,…
  • mom, dad and cook

  • sauce and cake in English

    sas and shepesh in Persian meaning bedbug and louse respectively.

  • nurses run

  • lol, wow, hhhh,

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