A palindrome is a word, phrase, or number that can be read the same way backwards or forwards. For example, RADAR
is RADAR spelled backwards, and it gets you coming or going.
| Palindromic Numbers: | 1991, 232, 666, 040, 7117, 1223221 |
| Palindromic Words: | kayak, mom, dad, sis, eve, level, tenet, noon nun, pip, deed, pop, eye, ewe, pup, madam |
| Palindromic Phrases: | Star comedy by Democrats, A Toyota, Race Car, Red roots to order, Straw Warts, Taco Cat |
| Palindromic Place Names: | Kanakanak (a town in Alaska), Apollo, PA, Wassamassaw (a swamp in SC), Adaven, Nevada |
| Palindromic Commercial Products: | Civic, Elle, Yreka Bakery (in Yreka, CA) |
| Palindromic Names: | Anna, Otto, Hannah, Bob, Ada, Lon Nol (Cambodian leader) |
| Palindromic Sentences: | Egad, an adage! Sit on a potato pan, Otis! Step on no pets. Stella won no wallets. A slut nixes sex in Tulsa. Drat Saddam, a mad dastard! Draw, O Caesar! Erase a coward! Don did nod. |
Here are some additional palindromic sentences (where letters are the unit):
John Taylor (1580 - 1653) is the author of the first English palindrome:
"Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel."
Mankind's first pickup lines:
"Madam, I'm Adam." or "Madam, in Eden, I'm Adam."
And then Eve's joke on Adam by responding,
"Adam, I'm Ada."
Sam Lloyd: "Was it a cat I saw?"
"Was it a car or a cat I saw?"
Napoleon: "Able was I ere I saw Elba."
Dmitri Borgmann: "Pa's a sap."
Dmitri Borgmann: " Ma is as selfless as I am."
Dmitri Borgmann: "Was it a car or a cat I saw?"
Howard Bergerson: (a double Palindrome!)
"Rise to vote, sir. Name now one man."
Howard Bergerson: "Niagara, O roar again!"
Howard Bergerson: "Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus."
(translation: Arithmetic problems aren't used to test
a student's knowledge of a Renaissance writer.)
J.A. Lindon: "Dennis and Edna sinned."
Alastair Reid:
"T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad.
I'd assign it a name: 'Gnat-dirt upset on drab pot toilet."
Leigh Mercer: "A man, a plan, a canal -- panama!"
"A man, a plan, a cat, a canal; panama?"
"A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal -- panama!"
"Tara sees a rat."
"Rats live on no evil star."
"Dammit, I'm mad!"
"Yo, banana boy!"
"Do geese see God?"
"A dog, a panic in a pagoda."
"No lemons, no melon."
"Was it a can on a cat I saw?"
"Egad! A base tone denotes a bad age."
"Straw? No, too stupid a fad. I put soot on warts."
"Ten animals I slam in a net."
"Man, Eve let an irate tar in at eleven AM"
"Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram."
"He goddam mad dog, eh?"
"Doc note, I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod."
"A Toyota's a Toyota."
"Neil, a trap! Sid is part alien!"
"Never odd or even."
"A dog, a plan, a canal, pagoda."
"Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?"
"Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog."
"Swap God for a janitor, rot in a jar of dog paws."
"No, sir, away! A papaya war is on!"
"Eva, can I see bees in a cave?"
"Red rum, sir, is murder."
"A Toyota! Race fast... safe car: a Toyota"
"Campus Motto: Bottoms up, Mac."
"Lisa Bonet ate no basil."
"God saw I was dog."
"Live not on evil."
"Tarzan raised a Desi Arnaz rat."
"Cigar? Toss it in a can, it is so tragic."
"Oh, no! Don Ho!"
"Vanna, wanna V?"
"Cain -- a maniac!"
"Ed, I saw Harpo Marx ram Oprah W. aside."
"Yo! Bottoms up, U.S. motto, boy!"
Here are some additional palindromic sentences (where words are the unit):
"So patient a doctor to doctor a patient so."
"Girl, bathing on a bikini, eyeing boy, finds boy eyeing bikini on bathing girl"
"Odd men in drag may drag in men. Odd!"
"You can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you?"