A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units (such as a strand of DNA) that has the property of reading the same in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted). The word "palindrome" comes from the Greek palin (παλιν) "back" and dromos (δρóμος) "way, direction". Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing. Palindrome - History. According to Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue: English & ...

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Palindrome - Symmetry by characters. The most familiar palindromes, in English at least, are character-by-character: the written characters read the same backwards as forwards. Palindromes may consist of a single word (such as civic), a phrase or sentence (Was it a cat I saw?), or a longer passage of text. Spaces, punctuation and case are usually ignored. a one of language of india "malayalam" Palindrome - Symmetry by words. Some palindromes use words as units rather than letters. An example is You can cage a swallow, can' ...

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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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Palindromes occur in many western languages, but they are particularly prevalent in English due to the wide variety of reversible letter pairs within words. Finnish, however, has been described as "the language of palindromes." Japanese palindromes, called kaibun, rely on the hiragana syllabary. An example is the word shinbunshi (in syllables shi-n-bu-n-shi), meaning "newspaper". The Japanes ...

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According to Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way (p. 227): "Palindromes … are at least 2,000 years old". The ancient Greeks often inscribed the palindrome "ΝΙΨΟΝΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑΜΗΜΟΝΑΝΟΨΙΝ" on fountains; in mixed case with modern accents and divided into words this reads "Νίψον ανομήματα μη μόναν όψιν" ("Nipson anomēmata mē monan opsin"), meaning "Wash the sin as well as the face" (ps ...

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