A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, a myriad, a sum, a lac, a liar, a hoop, a pint, a catalpa, a gas, an oil, a bird, a yell, a vat, a caw, a pax, a wag, a tax, a nay, a ram, a cap, a yam, a gay, a tsar, a wall, a car, a luger, a ward, a bin, a woman, a vassal, a wolf, a tuna, a nit, a pall, a fret, a watt, a bay, a daub, a tan, a cab, a datum, a gall, a hat, a fag, a zap, a say, a jaw, a lay, a wet, a gallop, a tug, a trot, a trap, a tram, a torr, a caper, a top, a tonk, a toll, a ball, a fair, a sax, a minim, a tenor, a bass, a passer, a capital, a rut, an amen, a ted, a cabal, a tang, a sun, an ass, a maw, a sag, a jam, a dam, a sub, a salt, an axon, a sail, an ad, a wadi, a radian, a room, a rood, a rip, a tad, a pariah, a revel, a reel, a reed, a pool, a plug, a pin, a peek, a parabola, a dog, a pat, a cud, a nu, a fan, a pal, a rum, a nod, an eta, a lag, an eel, a batik, a mug, a mot, a nap, a maxim, a mood, a leek, a grub, a gob, a gel, a drab, a citadel, a total, a cedar, a tap, a gag, a rat, a manor, a bar, a gal, a cola, a pap, a yaw, a tab, a raj, a gab, a nag, a pagan, a bag, a jar, a bat, a way, a papa, a local, a gar, a baron, a mat, a rag, a gap, a tar, a decal, a tot, a led, a tic, a bard, a leg, a bog, a burg, a keel, a doom, a mix, a map, an atom, a gum, a kit, a baleen, a gala, a ten, a don, a mural, a pan, a faun, a ducat, a pagoda, a lob, a rap, a keep, a nip, a gulp, a loop, a deer, a leer, a lever, a hair, a pad, a tapir, a door, a moor, an aid, a raid, a wad, an alias, an ox, an atlas, a bus, a madam, a jag, a saw, a mass, an anus, a gnat, a lab, a cadet, an em, a natural, a tip, a caress, a pass, a baronet, a minimax, a sari, a fall, a ballot, a knot, a pot, a rep, a carrot, a mart, a part, a tort, a gut, a poll, a gateway, a law, a jay, a sap, a zag, a fat, a hall, a gamut, a dab, a can, a tabu, a day, a batt, a waterfall, a patina, a nut, a flow, a lass, a van, a mow, a nib, a draw, a regular, a call, a war, a stay, a gam, a yap, a cam, a ray, an ax, a tag, a wax, a paw, a cat, a valley, a drib, a lion, a saga, a plat, a catnip, a pooh, a rail, a calamus, a dairyman, a bater, a canal - Panama!
I think I have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome now.
Below are a few more interesting phrase palindromes:
Naughty folks.
NI{PS}ON ANOMÊMATA MÊ MONAN O{PS}IN
This means "wash my sins, not just my face". It's a palindrome in Greek because the {PS} is the single letter psi.
The Romans had a clever one:
IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI
"Into the circle we go by night and are consumed by fire" -- which they said about moths.
In English they go on and on:
Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts. Campus motto: Bottoms up, Mac Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era? etc etc
Al lets Della call Ed "Stella". A nut for a jar of tuna Cain: A maniac Do geese see God? I maim nine men in Miami. Ma has a ham. Ma is as selfless as I am. Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram. Murder for a jar of red rum Naomi, did I moan? Ned, go gag Ogden. Never odd or even Niagara, O roar again! Pull up if I pull up. Was it a car or a cat I saw?
and my favorite...
Nurse! I spy gypsies! Run!
Example dialogue:
Woman: (played by another Rider, in falsetto) Oh, Palindrome, I brought you some of my special Chinese soup! Palindrome: Wonton? Not now!
Bar Patron: Why does that gunslinger have two heads? Palindrome: Neil, an alien.
Woman: Oh, Palindrome, do you think you'll ever be on TV? Palindrome: I, madam, I made radio. So I dared--am I mad, am I?
Based on work I did for the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.
Pal"in*drome (?), n. [Gr. running back again; again + to run: cf. F. palindrome.]
A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.
© Webster 1913.
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