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Palindrome: Encyclopedia - Palindrome
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 ...
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Palindrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Palindrome - Types Of Palindrome
Palindrome - Symmetry by characters.
The most familiar palindromes, in English at least, are character-by-character: the written charac...
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Palindrome: 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. ...
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Palindrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Palindrome - Palindromes In Different Languages
Palindromes occur in many western languages, but they are particularly prevalent in English due to the wide variety of reversible letter ...
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Palindrome: Encyclopedia Ii - Palindrome - History
According to Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way (p. 227): "Palindromes … are at least 2,000 years old". The...
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