Aibohphobia (W3)

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Aibohphobia

Reversed spelling of "phobia", deliberately constructed to be a palindrome. (Wiktionary)

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Palindromes

A palindrome is a nifty little word or sentence which can be read the same way both forwards and backwards. The following is a classic example of a palindrome concerning Theodore Roosevelt referring to how the United States borrowed a strategic piece of Central America for nearly a century:

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama
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A palindrome is a sequence of words whose letters are the same backward as forward. Note that this definition does not mention making sense. Few palindromes make sense, fewer still make sense and are grammatically correct sentences, and even fewer sound right to the ear. The longer a palindrome is, the less likely it is to make sense. And the longest palindromes, which run into the tens of thousands of words, make no pretense of making sense.
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dromedary (W3)

Any good anagrams for "dromedary"?

This page list all the various possible anagrams for the word dromedary. Use it for solving word puzzles, scrambles and for writing poetry, lyrics for your song or coming up with rap verses.

Full text of "Dromedary cook book"

"DROMEDARY" (from the Gr. "dromás", "running", "dramein", "to run"), a word applied to swift riding camels of either the Arabian or the Bactrian species. (See "CAMEL".)

Dromedary

"Dromedary"

(Isa. 60:6), an African or Arabian species of camel having only one hump, while the "Bactrian camel" has two. It is distinguished from the camel only as a trained saddle-horse is distinguished from a "cart-horse". It is remarkable for its speed (Jer. 2:23). Camels are frequently spoken of in partriarchal times (Gen. 12:16; 24:10; 30:43; 31:17, etc.). They were used for carrying burdens (Gen. 37:25; Judg. 6:5), and for riding (Gen. 24:64). The hair of the camel falls off of itself in spring, and is woven into coarse cloths and garments (Matt. 3:4). (See CAMEL.)

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Origin: Old French "dromadaire" from Late Latin "dromedarius" "kind of camel" from Latin "dromas" (genitive "dromadis"), from Greek "dromas kamelos" "running camel" from "dromos" "a race course.
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A camel with one hump, found in parts of Africa and India. More common than the two-hump Bactrian Camel.

Camel was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Dromedary Camel” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

Also Known As

• Arabian Camel
• Camel
• Indian Camel
• One Bump Camel
• Single Bump Camel

Apple Name

• Camel

Unicode Name

• Dromedary Camel

"dromedary" (n.), "thoroughbred Arabian camel", late 13c., from Old French "dromedaire" and directly from Late Latin "dromedarius" "kind of camel", from Latin "dromas" (genitive "dromados"), from Greek "dromas kamelos" "running camel", from "dromos" "a race course", from "dramein" "to run", from PIE "*drem-" "to run" (source also of Sanskrit "dramati" "runs", "goes", perhaps also Old English "trem" "footstep").

A variety of the one-humped Arabian camel bred and trained for use as a saddle-animal, "and comparing with the heavier and slower varieties as a race-horse does with a cart-horse; it is not a different animal zoologically speaking" [Century Dictionary]. An early variant in English was "drumbledairy" (1560s).

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Primary Title: A Dromedary
Maker Name: Unknown, illuminator
Type: Manuscripts
Medium: Pen-and-ink drawings tinted with body color and translucent washes on parchment
Place: Place Created: England
Date: about 1250 - 1260
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
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Primary Title: Egypt. - Cairo. Bedouin with Dromedary.
Maker Name: Frank Mason Good, photographer (English, 1839 - 1928)
Type: Photographs
Medium: Albumen silver print
Date: 1869–1871
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
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Primary Title: The Camel, or Dromedary. (Camelus Dromedarius.)
Maker Name: Frank Haes, photographer (English, 1833 - 1916)
Type: Photographs
Medium: Albumen silver print
Date: about 1865
Source: J. Paul Getty Museum
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"dromedary"

• 1. A species of camel, also called the "Arabian camel", with one hump or protuberance on the back, as distinguished from the "Bactrian camel", which has two humps. It is a common beast of burden in Egypt, Syria, and the neighboring countries.
• 2. A camel with one hump; working and racing; native to, North Africa, Southwest Asia.
• 3. Etymology: from Old French "dromadaire", which came from Late Latin "dromedarius", "kind of camel"; from Latin "dromas", "dromados", from Greek "dromas kamelos", "running camel"; from "dromos", "a race course".

althdt. "dromez" 1, ahd.?, Sb.?: nhd. "Dromedar"; ne. "dromedary";

Übersetzungsgleichung: lat. "dromedus" Gl;

Quellenangaben: Gl (14. Jh.);

Interferenz: Lw. lat. "dromedus";

Etymologie: s. lat. "dromas", Adj., "laufend"; gr. "dromás", Adj., "laufend", "gehend"; vgl. gr. "tréchein", V., "laufen", "eilen", "rennen", EWAhd 2, 800

Etymologisches Deutsches Elementarlexikon (EDEL)

"Dromedar", nhd., N., (13. Jh.): nhd. "Dromedar", einhökeriges Kamel; ne. "dromedary";

Quellenangaben: Anfang 13. Jh. (Herzog Ernst in der Fassung B);

Etymologie: mhd. "dromedar", "dromendar", "dromedarie", "tromedar", st. N., "Dromedar"; mlat. "dromedarius", M., "Dromedar", (um 392 n. Chr.); vgl. lat. "dromas", Adj., "laufend"; gr. "dromás", Adj., "laufend", "gehend"; vgl. gr. "tréchein", V., "laufen", "eilen", "rennen"; vgl. idg. "*dhregh-" (1), V., "laufen", Pokorny 273 (407/55) (RB. idg. aus arm., gr., kelt., balt.?);

Literaturhinweise:

• Kluge s. u. "Dromedar"
• EWD s. u. "Dromedar"
• DW 2, 1432
• DW2 6, 1419
• Duden s. u. "Dromedar";

Sonstiges: vgl. nndl. "dromedaris", Sb., "Dromedar"; frz. "dromadaire", M., "Dromedar"; nschw. "dromedar", Sb., "Dromedar"; nnorw. "dromedar", M., "Dromedar"; poln. "dromader", M., "Dromedar"; kymr. "dromedari", M., "Dromedar"; nir. "dromadaire", M., "Dromedar"; lat. "dromedaras", M., "Dromedar"; GB.: seit dem Hochmittelalter Bezeichnung für das einhöckrige arabische Kamel; BM.: "laufen"; F.: "Dromedar", "Dromedars", "Dromedare", "Dromedaren" + FW; Z.: "Drom-ed-ar"

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• Einhöckriges Kamel
• Dromedary Camel

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griech. "dromo-", "drom-", "-drome", "-dromic", "-dromical", "-dromous" (Greek: "running", "course"; "race", "racecourse").

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• hippodrome
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• oceanodromous
• orthodromic
• palindrome
• palindromic
• potanadromous
• prodromal
• prodrome
• syndrome

Origin of "dromedary"

Middle English "dromedarie" from Old French "dromedaire" from Ecclesiastical Late Latin "dromedarius (camelus)", "dromedary (camel)" from Classical Latin "dromas", "dromedary" (+ "-arius", "-ary") from Classical Greek "dromas", "dromos", a "runner", "running" from "dramein", "to run" from Indo-European an unverified form "drem-" from base an unverified form "dr?-", "to run" from source Sanskrit "drámati", "(he) runs".

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Palindromes

Well, my request for palindromes has been answered! Here is a summary of all the ones that were posted to the net or sent to me via mail. Many thanks to all who responded.
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Palindromes

If you are wondering why they call me "Palindrome," well, it is because my name is BOB. Although the name "BOB" is not the most sophisticated or romantic name around, I'm here to tell you that having a name that belongs to a fine group of words and sentences that cleverly say the same thing backward as they do forward, is surely a fantastic consolation.

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What Is a Palindrome?

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A "palindrome" is a word, a phrase, or a sequence of words that read the same way in either direction, as with "madam", "don’t nod", and "Eva, can I see bees in a cave?" A palindrome can include spaces and punctuation.

The word comes from the Greek "palindromos" ("running back again"; "palin" = "back", "dromos" = "direction"). Its original meaning applied to the backward movement of a crab.

Sources suggest different dates of the word’s earliest use, but they seem to agree that it appeared sometime between the first and third centuries A.D. It is cited as having been introduced into English in the seventeenth century by a British poet and writer.

Some of the most common palindromes are character units that form the same word front to back and back to front.

Examples

• civic
• gig
• kayak
• level
• noon
• pop
• racecar
• radar
• refer
• rotator
• sagas
• solos
• stats
• tenet
• wow

You’ll also find palindromes as multi-word phrases.

Examples

• a man, a plan, a canal—Panama!
• a nut for a jar of tuna
• drawer as a reward
• my gym
• never odd or even
• no lemon, no melon
• no trace; not one carton
• so many dynamos
• too hot to hoot
• top spot

The marvel of palindromes reveals itself most when they extend into full sentences.

Examples

• Step on no pets.
• Mr. Owl ate my metal worm.
• Do geese see God?
• Some men interpret nine memos.
• Bombard a drab mob.
• Marge lets Norah see Sharon’s telegram.
• Too bad—I hid a boot.
• Gateman sees name; garageman sees nametag.
• Was it a car or a cat I saw?
• Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?

The longest palindromic sentence on record contains "21,012" words (a number that is itself a palindrome). The designer, Peter Norvig, released it at 20:02 (U.S. military time) on 02/20/2002.
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Palindromes

They're very hard to write. My only major effort in this field is the following 306-word masterpiece, Dog Sees Ada, composed in 1991. You may expect a grander effort, to be titled Seid Ada (German for "To Be Ada") in 2002. I have a rough idea for the plot of Seid Ada but I haven't yet figured out how it will end.

Writing a long palindrome requires patience and a keen eye for hidden words. If you've ever wandered the aisles of a grocery store, noticing the "lonely" in "Tylenol," the "nosy" in "Tyson," or the "soiree" in "Cheerios," there is a decent chance that you, too, could compose such a work.

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Palindromes

This section is limited to single-word palindromes only. I appreciate contributions to this page, but I am not including sentences or phrases which are palindromes, since there are other websites which list large numbers of them. Principal contributors to this section are Dan Tilque, Stuart Kidd, Philip Bennett, and Charles Turner.

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kinnikinnik (W3)

Arctostaphylos uva ursi ( Kinnikinnick ) Kinnikinnick ( Arctostaphylos uva ursi )

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"ARUV": Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. kinnikinnick 15/0

Etymology

The term "kinnikinnick" derives from Unami Delaware, "mixture" (c.f. Ojibwe "giniginige" "to mix something animate with something inanimate"), from Proto-Algonquian "*kereken-", "mix (it) with something different by hand".

By extension, the name was also applied by the European hunters, traders, and settlers to various shrubs in which the bark or leaves are employed in the mixture, most often Bearberry (Arctostaphylos spp.) and to lesser degree, Red Osier Dogwood (Cornus sericea) and Silky Cornel (Cornus amomum), and even to Canadian Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis), Evergreen Sumac (Rhus virens) and the Littleleaf Sumac (Rhus microphylla).
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Palindromes

Everyone knows what a palindrome is: a word that reads the same backwards as forwards (except for spaces and punctuation). Maybe the fact that everyone knows about them is why it's taken me a year and a half to get around to writing about them.
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Digit Reversal Sums Leading to Palindromes

Beginning with the decimal representation of any integer N, reverse the digits and add it to N. Iterate this operation. Typically you will soon arrive at a palindrome, i.e., a number that reads the same forwards and backwards. For example, starting with 39, we have 39 + 93 = 132. Then 132 + 231 = 363 = palindrome.
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Definition of palindrome

: a word, verse, or sentence (such as "Able was I ere I saw Elba") or a number (such as 1881) that reads the same backward or forward
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Did you know?

"Palindrome" comes from Greek "palindromos", meaning "running back again", which itself is from "palin" ("back", "again") and "dramein" ("to run"). Nowadays, we appreciate a clever palindrome — such as "Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard" or "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama" — or even a simple one like "race car", but in the past palindromes were more than just smart wordplay. Some folks thought they were magical, and they carved them on walls or amulets for protection.
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A 17,826 Word Palindrome (or Palindromic Sentence)

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Palindromes

• characteristic functions (100): A136522 A002113 A029742 palindrome
• palindromes, A002113*, A061917
• palindromes, "pi" for: A136687, A137180
• palindromes, characteristic function of: A136522
• palindromes, in base 2: A006995*, A062014, A062019
• palindromes, in bases 10 and n: (1): A007632, A007633, A029961, A029962, A029963, A029964, A029804, A029965, A029966, A029967, A029968, A029969,
• palindromes, in bases 10 and n: (2): A029970, A029731, A097855, A099165
• palindromes, in bases 2 through 10: A006995, A014190, A014192, A029952, A029953, A029954, A029803, A029955, A002113
• palindromes, intrinsic: A060873-A060879, A060947-A060949
• palindromes, multiples of n which give: A062279, A061674, A062293, A061797, A050782, A050810
• palindromes, populations of: A050250, A050251, A050684, A050685
• palindromes, see also (1): A007500, A002778, A007633, A007573, A002780, A006995, A007632, A003098, A007616, A003166, A002779, A002069
• palindromes, see also (2): A002781, A006960
• palindromic primes: see primes, palindromic
• palindromic squares: A029984 for base 3, A029986 for base 4, A029988 for base 5, A029990 for base 6, A029992 for base 7, A029805 for base 8, A029994 for base 9, A002778 for base 10, A029996 for base 11, A029733 for base 16, A118651 for base 17.
• palindromic squares: see also A016106, A028818, A059744, A059745
• palindromic, not: non-palindromic numbers: A033868, A016038, A047811, A050813

Die Sequenz "A136522" wird z.B. gebildet durch f(n) = 1, falls "n" palindromisch ist, ansonsten 0:

n:	1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 ...
f(n):	1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  1  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  1 ...

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How to construct palindromes

A "palindrome" is a word or phrase that reads the same way forwards and backwards, like "kayak" or "Madam, I’m Adam". The word comes to us from "palindromos", made up of a pair of Greek roots: "palin" (meaning "again") and "dromos" (meaning "way", "direction"). It occurs in English as early as the seventeenth century, when the poet and playwright Ben Jonson referred to "curious palindromes".

Some palindromes, the simplest sort, are reversible words, often with a "consonant-vowel-consonant vowel-consonant" (or "CVCVC") spelling, like "civic", "level", "dewed", "radar", "refer", "rotor", and "tenet". Shorter palindromes are common too, like "pup", "mom", and "wow". Longer ones include "racecar" and "rotator".

The alternating consonant-vowel shapes is convenient but not necessary, and palindromes like "noon", "deed", "boob", (with a "CVVC" shape), "deified" and "reifier" (with a "CVVCVVC" shape), and "redder" (with a "CVCCVC" shape) exist as well. If you ignore the hyphen between its parts, the "CVCCVC" compound "pull-up" works as well.

Some fans of this sort of wordplay insist that true palindromes must spell the same word in both directions, so "live" and "evil", "dessert" and "tressed", and "era" and "are" would not count as true palindromes. When words can be reversed but the meaning changes, they are sometimes called "heteropalindromes". I’m not that fussy though. They are all palindromes to me.

To understand how to make palindromes, it helps to think about the combinations that can begin and end words. English syllables can begin with a single consonant letter or end with letter clusters like "thw", "dw", "tw", "thr", "dr", "tr", "kw", "qu", "cr", "kr", "kn", "cl", "kl", "pr", "fr", "br", "gr", "pl", "ph", "fl", "bl", and "gl", as in "thwart", "dwindle", "tweet", "through", "dream", "train", "kwanza", "queen", "creek", "kraut", "know", "pring", "fret", "brew", "gray", "play", "phone", "fly", and "glow".

But many of these clusters don’t occur in reverse at the end of words. At the end of words, we find "wd", "wt", "rd", "rt", "rc", "rk", "lc", "lk", "rp", "rf", "rb", "rg", "pl", "lf", and "lb", as in "lewd", "newt", "bard", "cart", "arc", "talc", "walk", "carp", "arf", "verb", "berg", "kelp", "calf", and "bulb".

Of these, the reversible combinations are few: "dr", "tr", "cr", "kr", "pr", "br", "gr", "pl", and "fl": "ward"/"draw", "bard"/"drab", "trap"/"part", "marc"/"cram", "knob"/"bonk", "prep"/"perp", "brag"/"garb", "grub"/"burg", "plug"/"gulp", "flow"/"wolf", "flog"/"golf".

The suffixes "–s" and "–ed" are especially helpful, since they can create plural and possessive nouns and present and past tense verbs. The letter "s" is also very common in two- and three-letter consonant clusters at the beginning of a word: "sleep"/"peels", "spin"/"nips", "stab"/"bats", "stub"/"buts", "snub"/"buns", "straw"/"warts", and "slip-up"/"pupils". And the syllable "de-" can also occur at the beginning of words: "denim"/"mined", "devil"/"lived", "debut"/"tubed", "decaf"/"faced", "decal"/"laced", "demit"/"timed", and "desuffused".

Beyond being reversible themselves, words can be combined to make palindromic phrases and even sentence-long palindromes, from simple ones like "No, son", and "Sue us" to longer sentences like "Do geese see God?" or "Step on no pets." The strategic use of a semicolon gives us the compound sentence "Deliver no evil; live on reviled." It is even possible to create a palindrome that goes on forever. How? If you embed the word "ever" into the palindrome "never even" you can get "never ever even, never ever even", and so on to infinity.

Making palindromes is something of an art form. Phrases and sentences are often poetical rather than strictly grammatical. And they sometimes work best when combined with illustrations, as in John Agee’s books "Go Hang a Salami! I’m a Lasagna Hog" and "So Many Dynamos!", which offer up such entertaining combinations as "Llama mall", "Dr. Awkward", or "Mr. Alarm".

If you want to try to create some palindromes yourself, here are some tips:

Start with a list of reversible words. In addition to the words already given there are pairs like: "room"/"moor", "edit"/"tide", "doom"/"mood", "time"/"emit", "avid"/"diva", "bad"/"dab", "rail"/"liar", "raj"/"jar" and many more.

Reversible names like "Ada", "Bob", "Viv", "Eve", "Anna", "Hannah", and "Mada"/"Adam", can be a good way to begin or end a palindrome.

Palindromists don’t worry much about punctuation, so "gateman’s nametag" and "bro’s orb" will count.

There are some common palindrome frames you can use to practice with, like the ones below, adapted from Howard Bergerson’s 1973 book, Palindromes and Anagrams.
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• Was it a rat I saw?
• I saw desserts; stressed was I.
• Live not on evil.
• Ma is as selfless as I am.
• Pull up if I pull up.
• Mix a maxim.

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palindrome

- a word (or group of words) that is the same when you read it forwards from the beginning or backwards from the end, such as "madam" or "racecar". "Abba", "Eve", "Hannah", "Otto", are common name examples.

Palindromic wordplay is nothing new. Palindromes have been around since at least the days of ancient Greece, and our name for them comes from two Greek words, "palin", meaning "back" or "again", and "dramein", meaning "to run".
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Palindrome (W3)

• "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!". weitere bekannte sind
• "Madam, I'm Adam." und Napoleons Bemerkung
• "Able was I ere I saw Elba."

• The first words ever said by one human to another were palindromic: "Madam, I'm Adam."
• Potato-Palindrome: "Sit on a Potato Pan, Otis!"

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Indo-European Roots

ENTRY: "kwel-"

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• B75 2143 MAKING an obscure joke that failed to impress anyone the other week (it was about warts and the treatment of them) I did, at least encourage one reader in Israel to send me a palindrome about them.
• CCP 925 Like my young daughter Hannah's name, Glenelg is a palindrome.
• CCV 687 the large number of terms which can arise in such discussions:palindrome, word, spell, sentence, name, alphabetical order, story, rule, vowel, letter, rhyme, dot/full stop .
• EUY 339 "Palindrome!"
• FTE 699 In the symmetry consensus, the simple consensus is converted to a palindrome based on the most frequent base at each symmetrical position, i.e. in the right half site, the base at the first position is not conserved, however, an A is found at the symmetrical position in the left half-site in all four sites, hence, the first position in the right half site is a T in the symmetry consensus.
• FYV 158 1066, 1789, 1945. 1 have a superb vocabulary (monad, retractile, necropolis, palindrome, antidisestablishmentarianism) and a nonchalant command of all grammatical rules.
• GVJ 1729 A palindrome is a musical structure which runs backwards from the halfway point and which therefore reads the same backwards as forwards.
• GVJ 1731 Sometimes the mirroring may comprise only the note-order, or (conversely) the rhythmic structure set to different notes, so that it is not strictly speaking a palindrome.
• GVJ 1732 Sometimes a palindrome is used together with other non-mirrored material and especially in this case the mirroring is not perceived by the listener.
• J7U 19 A palindrome arises for reasons that have nothing to do with transformational grammar; puns undoubtedly perform some sort of linguistic operation even though they are not accounted for in the grammars; etymology reveals monsters more absurd than the most ignorant folk-etymology can imagine.

For multiplication tables, both diagonals are palindromic: each is the same both directions.

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WORD ORIGIN FOR "PALINDROME"

17.Jh.: from Greek "palindromos" = "running back again", from "palin" = "again" + "-drome"

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"palindrome" (n.)

"a word or line that reads the same backward and forward", 1620s, from Greek "palindromos" "a recurrence", literally "a running back". Second element is "dromos" = "a running" (see "dromedary"); first is "palin" = "again", "back", from PIE "*kwle-i-", suffixed form of root "*kwel-" (1) = "revolve", "move round". PIE "*kw-" becomes Greek "p-" before some vowels.

Related: "Palindromic"; "palindromist".

ide. "*kwel-" (1), also "*kwele-", Proto-Indo-European root meaning "revolve", "move round"; "sojourn", "dwell".

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• ancillary
• atelo-
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• bucolic
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• collet
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• colony
• cult
• cultivate
• culture
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• cycle
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• hawse
• inquiline
• Kultur
• lapidocolous
• nidicolous
• palimpsest
• palindrome
• palinode
• pole (n.2) "ends of Earth's axis"
• pulley
• rickshaw
• talisman
• teleology
• telic
• telophase
• telos
• torticollis
• wheel.

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit "cakram" = "circle", "wheel", Sanskrit "carati" = "he moves", "wanders"; Avestan "caraiti" = "applies himself", Avestan "c'axra" = "chariot", "wagon"; Greek "kyklos" = "circle", "wheel", "any circular body", "circular motion", "cycle of events",Greek "polos" = "a round axis" (PIE "*kw-" becomes Greek "p-" before some vowels), Greek "polein" = "move around"; Latin "colere" = "to frequent", "dwell in", "to cultivate", "move around", Latin "cultus" = "tended", "cultivated", hence also "polished", Latin "colonus" = "husbandman", "tenant farmer", "settler", "colonist"; Lithuanian "kelias" = "a road", "a way"; Old Norse "hvel", Old English "hweol" = "wheel"; Old Church Slavonic "kolo", Old Russian "kolo", Polish "kolo", Russian "koleso" = "a wheel".

Racecar - Palindromes are discussed

The daily dispatch. (Richmond [Va.]), 22 March 1858. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.

• "T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad. I'd assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot-toilet."
• "Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog!"
• "Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?"
• "Snug & raw was I ere I saw war & guns."

• * War is raw.
• * Boss is spelled b-o-s-s because your boss is a backward double s.o.b.
• * When you are stressed, you may reach for desserts.

"palindrome", NOUN, COUNTABLE DEFINITIONS

a word or phrase that is the same whether you read it forwards or backwards, such as "noon" or "not a ton".

Definition of Palindrome:

Palindrome: In genetics, a DNA or RNA sequence that reads the same in both directions. The sites of many restriction enzymes that cut (restrict) DNA are palindromes.

In rheumatology, "palindromic rheumatism" is a form of joint inflammation in which the joints involved by the arthritis appear to change periodically from one region of the body to another and back again.

In general usage, a palindrome is a word (such as the name "Eve"), phrase, sentence (such as "Madam I'm Adam"), or number (such as 2002) that reads the same in both directions, backward or forward

"palindrome": A word, phrase, sentence, or verse that reads the same backward or forward.

Definitions for palindrome: A word, phrase, sentence, or verse that reads the same backward or forward.

Citations for palindrome

• Madam, I'm Adam. (Adam's first words to Eve?)
• A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama! (The history of the Panama Canal in brief.)

Origin of palindrome: Greek, 1620-1630, "Palindrome" comes from Greek "palindromos", literally "running back (again)", from "palin", "back", "again" + "dromos", "running".

palindrome: a word, verse, phrase, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward. (Thursday October 11)

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Palindromes are discussed.

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palinode (W3)

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ETYMOLOGY: From Late Latin "palindia", from Greek "palinoidia": "palin", "again"; see "kwel-"1 in Appendix I + "oide", "song"; see "parody".

Palinode (3 syl.)

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"palinode" (n.) 1590s, from Middle French "palinod" (16c.) or directly from Latin "palinodia", from Greek "palinoidia" "poetic retraction", from palin "again", "back" (see "palindrome") + "oide" "song" (see "ode"). Related: "Palinodic".

"palinode" n. - "recantation", especially in verse. "palinodist", n.

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December 2014, Dec 21 palinode

"palinode": a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.

Definitions for "palinode"

• 1.a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
• 2.a recantation.

Citations for "palinode"

He writes albas for both sexes, and in the Sonnets repents of his love poetry, writing his palinode, in true medieval fashion.
-- C. S. Lewis, "Donne and Love Poetry," Selected Literary Essays, 1969

"I shall trim their jackets for them, Mrs. Dods, if you can but bring tight evidence of the facts - I will soon bring them to fine and palinode - I will make them repent meddling with your good name."
-- Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well, 1823

Origin of "palinode": Late Latin, Greek, 1590-1600, "Palinode" entered English in the 1600s, and comes from the Greek "palinoidia" meaning "poetic retraction". It shares the root "palin" with the word "palindrome".

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Palindromes

A palindrome is a word or a sentence that reads the same backward as forward. Palindrome is said to have been invented by the Greek Poet Sotades (3rd century BC). They are sometimes called Sotadics in his honour.
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semordnilap (W3)

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Etymology: A reverse spelling of palindrome, "palindromes". Macmillan http://www.macmillandictionary.com/new-words/031205-semordnilap.htm suggest that British author Michael Quinion may have been among the first to use the word, in May 2000. However, an http://www.anagrammy.com/anagrams/faq3.html anagrams FAQ page attributes it to Lewis Carrol.

Word Reversals

A word that is spelled backward to become a new word is sometimes referred to as a "word reversal" or "anadrome". The latter term combines "ana-" from "anagram" and "-drome" from "palindrome". Lewis Carroll called this a "semordnilap" ("palindromes" spelled backwards), whereas other sources (Dudeney, 1929) referred to these as "antigrams".

Examples of this genre include:

• Pat = tap.
• God = dog.
• Evian = naive.
• Samaroid = dioramas.

semordnilap

What Is The Term For A Word Which Is Another Word Spelled Backwards?

There's no generally accepted term. The simplest way of referring to such words (e.g. "lap"/"pal", "dog"/"god") is probably "semi-palindrome" or "half-palindrome". Some other suggestions have been made, including "heteropalindrome", "reversgram" (or "reversible anagram"), and "semordnilap" (i.e. "palindromes" written backwards).

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The word "palindrome" is an established term in English, used to refer to words or phrases which read the same in either direction. Simple examples are the word "noon", or the phrase "navy van", which have exactly the same form and meaning when read in reverse.

If the word "palindromes" is itself read in reverse however, the result is "semordnilap", a term coined in recent years to refer to words and phrases which make sense when read backwards, but have a different meaning from when they are read forwards.
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Background – semordnilap

The British author Michael Quinion seems to have been among the first to give a definition of the term "semordnilap", featuring the word in an article for his interesting website, "www.worldwidewords.org", in May 2000, though the term is yet to be acknowledged in printed dictionaries. Alternative terms previously used by linguists to refer to the same phenomenon are "reversal"/"reversal pair", "inversion" and "back-word".

Last year saw popularisation of a related term, the noun "calendrome" and adjective "calendromic", as people observed that "2002" was a year with palindromic quality. As the next "calendrome" won't appear for another 110 years, i.e. the year "2112", it seems likely that such terms will remain fairly.

"Semordnilap" ("palindromes" spelled backward) is a name coined for words that spell a different word in reverse. The word was coined by Martin Gardner in his notes to C.C. Bombaugh's book Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature.
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2000-10: "Semordnilaps", or words that spell other words when reversed:

• "avid"
• "debut"
• "ogre"
• "strop"
• "nonet"

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AWADmail Issue 17

October 22, 2000

A Compendium of Feedback on the Words in A.Word.A.Day and Other Interesting Tidbits about Words and Languages

From: Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org)

Subject: "semordnilap" and "dna palindromes"

Great response to the call for semordnilap/palindromes. Here are a few selections. On another note, do you think Mets will stem Yankees or will the latter seek nay for the former?

And yes, there is something called "DNA palindrome". Look it up.
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A popular motivational saying goes, "Desserts is stressed spelled backwards."

This is an example of a "reversible word", which when read from the right yields another word. All of this week's words exhibit this quality. Just like reversible clothing that changes pattern when worn inside out, "reversible words" result in other usable words. A special case of reversible words are "palindromes", which spell the same when reversed. So "palindromes" are a subset of "reversible words" which in turn are a subset of "anagrams". Another name for "reversible words" is "semordnilap", a self-referential word coined by reversing the word "palindromes".

Some words coined in this manner have actually entered the dictionary. Here are two examples: "YOB" (a rowdy youth), coined by reversing "BOY", and "MHO" (former unit of conductance), coined by reversing "OHM", the unit of electrical resistance.
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Odds & Ends

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A "fear of palindromes" is known as "aibohphobia". If you thought "someone who feared palindromes" is a "aibohphobic", you'd be wrong. The word is "cibohphobic". ["ciboh p hobic"]

A "semordnilap" is a word that is a reverse of another word. For example, "stressed" spelled backward is "desserts".

"A TOYOTA" is a palindrome and forms a mirror image (space, what space?). "Civic" is a car model from Honda, but it's not as good (the palindrome, no judgment on the car!).

In "Yreka", California, there used to be a "bakery" called "Yreka Bakery". It ran for more than 100 years before closing down. A new business opened on its premises "Yrella Gallery".

The longest single-word palindrome in any dictionary is "tattarrattat", in the Oxford English Dictionary. It means a knock on the door and was coined by James Joyce in Ulysses.

The longest palindromic place name is "Nerren Nerren" (12 letters) in Australia. It's both a letter- and a word-palindrome.

Peter Norvig of Google has come up with a 21,012 word palindrome "A man, a plan, a caretaker, ... Komarek, a ter, a canal, Panama" in his quest to find the world's longest palindrome. Google's AI is still trying to figure out the meaning of that 21k-word-long sentence.

The longest palindrome in Morse code is for the word incalescence: ".. -. -.-. .- .-.. . ... -.-. . -. -.-. ."
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Palindromes have a special significance in genetics.

This is a palindromic URL: https://wordsmith.org/words/sdrow/gro.htimsdrow//:sptth. It works!

According to Guinness, the longest one-word palindrome in any language is "saippuakivikauppias" (19 letters), but it's not a very common word. It means a soapstone merchant and these days how many people sell soapstone only.

Palindromes occur in music as well. For example, Lulu, an opera by Alban Berg, has a palindromic sequence.

palindrome

noun: A word, phrase, sentence, or a longer work that reads the same backward and forward. For example, "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!"

From Greek "palindromos" ("running again"), from "palin" ("again") + "dromos" ("running").

Semordnilap

This is a close relative of the "palindrome", a string of letters that reads the same backwards as forwards ("Madam, I’m Adam"; "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!"; "Was it a car or a cat I saw?").

In a semordnilap the text is likewise reversed but it must turn into something different. For example, if you reverse "diaper" you get "repaid", and if you invert "desserts" the word "stressed" appears. A more complicated example is "deliver no evil", but you can probably invent better ones for yourself.

As "semordnilap" is "palindromes" written backwards, it’s a self-referential word, one that encapsulates within itself the thing it represents. You could hardly say that it’s common, but many earnest palindromists have accidentally discovered it, and it has some small circulation among word wizards and elsewhere.

Derrida particularly favors the figure of a "headstrong dog", possibly because "dog", a "semordnilap" for "god", helps him to configure an immanent versus transcendent ontology.

Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times, by Nicole Shukin, 2009.

"Semordnilap"

A word, phrase, or sentence that has the property of forming another word, phrase, or sentence when its letters are reversed. A "semordnilap" differs from a palindrome in that the word or phrase resulting from the reversal is different from the original word or phrase.

TATTARRATTAT (W3)

The longest palindrome in English is often considered "tattarrattat", coined by James Joyce in his 1922 Ulysses to imitate the sound of a knock on the door.

The longest palindromic English word, according to the Oxford English Dictionary: "tattarrattat". Coined by James Joyce in his 1922 novel Ulysses, the word is an "onomatopoeia". It has been used to describe the sound of someone knocking on a door.

Thompson Twins

'Doctor, Doctor', ein Riesen-Hit aus den 80ern von den Thompson Twins! Wenn die 'Thompson-Twins' eine deutsche Band gewesen wären, hätten sie 'Schulze und Schultze' geheissen. Die 'Thompson Twins' haben sich nach den zwei Polizisten aus dem Comic "Tintin" (dt. "Tim und Struppi") benannt. In England heißen diese 'Thompson Twins' und bei uns 'Schulze und Schultze'.

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Palindromes activity

There are many common English words that fit the category of palindromes. Below are ten definitions of such words followed by a number in parenthesis that indicates how many letters there are in each English palindrome.
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Focusing on Words Newsletter #8, Palindromes - Solutions

Word Unit: Palindromes (a variety of palindrome words, both historical and "modern").

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palindrome

MEANING:

noun: A word, phrase, sentence, or a longer work that reads the same backward and forward. For example, “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!”

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek "palindromos" ("running again"), from "palin" ("again") + "dromos" ("running"). Earliest documented use: 1637.
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Palindromes

Palindromes

• ere
• ecce
• minim
• tirrit
• murdrum

Lederer, Richard (Autor)
Morice, Dave (Illustrator)
The Circus of Words
Acrobatic Anagrams, Parading Palindromes, Wonderful Words on a Wire, and More Lively Letter Play

Language skills will fly through the air with the greatest of ease as kids join in "The Circus of Words". Children of all ages are delighted by anagrams, palindromes, acrostics, alliteration, riddles, and puns, yet few books on wordplay are addressed to middle-schoolers. This creative and challenging activity book shows kids how to juggle letters to become ringmasters of wordplay. The Shrinking Spotlight shows how larger words become smaller words when certain letters are removed. Clown Cars introduces the idea of words hiding within words, and The Acro Bat and Silver Spoonerisms show off letter clusters that change from one word to another. The whole bandwagon is here, enabling kids, who are natural language enthusiasts, to cavort through that endless entertainment, the English language.

Richard Lederer (born May 26, 1938) is an American author, speaker, and teacher best known for his books on word play

Word play is a literary technique in which the words that are used become the main subject of the work. Puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names are common examples of word play....
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