Palindromes , Reversible Words , pangrams ( Holalphabetic ) and more !
Palindromes:
The name "palindrome" derives from the Greek palindrome, which means running back again.
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 live evil, which have exactly same form and meaning when read in reverse.
Common English Palindromes :
- Civic
- Rotator
- Eye
- Radar
- Naan
- Deleveled
- Redded
- Soles
- Racecar
- Mum
- Pull-up
- Redivider
- Rotavator
- Level
- Reler
- Madam
- PUT-UP
- Toot
- Dewed
- Rotor
- Minim
- Reviver
- Deed
- Malayalam
- Eve
- Hannah
- Kayak
- Sagas
Phrases and Sentences (Palindromes) :
- Denna and Edna sinned.
- Don’t nod
- He lived as a devil eh?
- Nurses run
- I did, did ?
- Ma is as selfless as I am.
- Eden I’m Adam (Adam’s introduction of himself to Eve)
- Name me man (Adam to his creator)
- Navy van
- Was it a car or a cat i saw?
- A man, a plan a canal, Panama
- Able was I ere I saw Elba supposedly spoken by Napoleon, referring to his first sighting of Elba, the island where the British exiled him
Also read :
All you need to know about redundancy
Word Unit Palindromes :
Word palindromes are sentences that are read in either direction word by word.
1. Dollars make men covetous, and covetous men make dollars.
2. Bears are people that say that people are bores.
3. Women understand men, few men understand women.
4 God knows man What is doubtful is what man knows God.
5 You can cage a swallow, can’t you, but you can’t swallow a cage , can you?
Reversible words:
If the word palindrome is itself read in reverse however , the result is ‘emordnilap’ , a term coined in recent years to refer to words and phrases which make sense when read backwards, but have a different meaning from what they are read forward.
Emordnilap of the word evil is live , and that of desserts is stressed.
Examples:
- Blub — bulb
- Bonk — Knob
- Buns — snub
- Dart — Trad
- Deed — Deed
- Deep — Peed
- Deeps — Speed
- Deer — Reed
- Devil — Lived
- Dew — Wed / we’d
- Dail — laid
Pangrams :
Pangrams is a phrase, clause , sentence or other sequence of letters which contains all the letters of alphabet.
Examples:
- A large fawn jumped quickly over white zinc boxes.
- All questions asked by five watch experts amazed the judge.
