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Palindrome - Long palindromes: Encyclopedia II - Palindrome - Long palindromes

The longest palindromic word in the Oxford English Dictionary is tattarrattat, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses for a knock on the door. The Guinness Book of Records gives detartrated, the past tense of detartrate, a somewhat contrived chemical term meaning to remove tartrates. The longest "natural" English palindrome is arguably redivider (someone or something that redivides). Malayalam, an Indian language, is of equal length. Saippuakauppias, Finnish for "soap vendor", is claimed to be the wo ...

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Palindrome: Encyclopedia II - Palindrome - Long palindromes

Palindrome - Long palindromes

The longest palindromic word in the Oxford English Dictionary is tattarrattat, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses for a knock on the door. The Guinness Book of Records gives detartrated, the past tense of detartrate, a somewhat contrived chemical term meaning to remove tartrates. The longest "natural" English palindrome is arguably redivider (someone or something that redivides). Malayalam, an Indian language, is of equal length.

Saippuakauppias, Finnish for "soap vendor", is claimed to be the world's longest palindromic word in everyday use.

To celebrate 20:02 02/20 2002, a palindromic day, Peter Norvig wrote on that day a computer program which produced the world's longest palindromic sentence, running to 17,259 words [2].

A long palindrome in English that reads more easily and attempts to flow is reproduced here.

In 1991, Gordon Dow composed a 306 word palindrome titled Dog Sees Ada. This palindrome is famous for using very few contrived words. It is reproduced here.