Saturday 13 December 2008

Palindromes

Palindrome is a word drived from the Greek language that literally means "running back again"
Palin means again and Drom or Dramein means run.
Palindromes are words that read the same from front to back and back to front like:

Deed, Level, Radar, Madam, Pop, Lol, Gag, Rotor, Civic etc.....

But a palindrome doesn't have to consist of only one word. For example:

Live Evil or Straw Warts although not common place words are examples of multiple word palindromes.

There is a man who professes to have created the worlds longest palindrome of 74,633 letters. Even though he used a computer program to do it that's still very impressive.

The origins of the palindrome are thought to have been for word games and examples for the Greek language date back several centuries.


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