Monday, July 7, 2008

Palindromes

Palindromes

Word palindrome is derived from the Greek palíndromos, meaning running back again (palín = AGAIN + drom–, drameîn = RUN). A palindrome is a word or phrase which reads the same in both directions. Some simple examples are:

Don't nod

Dogma: I am God

Never odd or even

Too bad – I hid a boot

Rats live on no evil star

No trace; not one carton

Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?

Murder for a jar of red rum

Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog!

Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!

A Toyota! Race fast... safe car: a Toyota

Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts

Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?

Some men interpret nine memos

Go deliver a dare, vile dog!

Madam, in Eden I'm Adam

Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo

Ah, Satan sees Natasha

Lisa Bonet ate no basil

Do geese see God?

God saw I was dog

Dennis sinned

The One...

The Biggest Palindrome u can ever see...

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!

u can check it out dudes,
i did, u can read out the whole thing backwards!!


Here are some more..

A mar on a panorama!

A dog, a panic in a pagoda!

A dog, a pant, a panic in a Patna pagoda!

A dog, a plan, a canal: pagoda!

A man, a pain, a mania, Panama!

A car, a man, a maraca!

The longest..

even i would agree with u that MALYALAM is long.. but... not the longest!!

day before yesterday i saw the word, "REDIVIDER".. so i thought it has to be the longest... until yessterday when i saw.. "saippuakuppinippukauppias" which means soapdish batch seller..
and also.. "Koortsmeetsysteemstrook"

in fact it is said that the longest palindrome in the whole world is a chinese one which is...

" 枯眼望遙山隔水,往來曾見幾心知。壺空怕酌一杯酒,筆下難成和韻詩。迷路阻人離別久,
訊音無雁寄回遲。孤燈夜守長寥寂,夫憶妻兮父憶兒。"

in marathi...
नवजीवन – "new life"

in norweign...
"Regninger": "bills"
"leseesel": "reading donkey"

in estonian...
"Kuulilennuteetunneliluuk": "bullet flying trajectory tunnel's hatch"

in finnish...
Saippuakuppinippukauppias: "soap cup batch trader"
Solutomaattimittaamotulos: "the measurement laboratory result for tomato cells"

Palindromes in other languages are..
तो कवि डालडा विकतो?
चिमा काय कामाची?
रामाला भाला मारा.

No devil lived on.
No lemons, no melon.
Not a banana baton.
Not a tub, but a ton.
Now, I won!
Snack cans
Snug & raw was I, ere I saw war & guns.
So many dynamos!
Space caps
Spit on no tips.
Step on no pets!
Sun at noon, tan us.

Was it a bar or a bat I saw?
Was it a bat I saw?
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Was it a hat I saw?
Was it a mat I saw?
Was it a rat I saw?
Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?
Yo, Banana Boy!

In Persian..
مودته تدوم لكل هول و هل كل مودته تدوم
it means.. His style lasts through all horrors, and does every style last?

In Bulgarian..
Насила закараха свинете ни в Сахара, каза Лисан it means "They took our swine to Sahara by force, Lisan said"

a man, a plan, a canal: panama

RACECAR
DEED
LEVEL
PIP
ROTOR
CIVIC
POP
MADAM
EYE
NUN
RADAR


Finnish has the longest single-word palindromes, with two entries: “saippuakivikauppias,” which means “soap stone dealer”; and “solutomaattimittaamotulos,” which means “the result from a measurement laboratory for tomatoes.” Depending on who you ask, “tattarrattat,” “kinnikinnik,” or “detartrated” is the longest single-word palindrome in English, though some would say these words are not really part of the English language, since they are contrived or almost never used.


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