What are some long palindromes?
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What are some long palindromes?
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The first English palindrome:
Lewd I did live, & evil did I dwel. (John Taylor, 1614)
The first dialog:
ADAM: Madam -
EVE: Oh, who?
ADAM: Madam, I'm Adam.
EVE: Name of a foeman?
ADAM: O stone me! Not so.
EVE: Mad! A maid am I, Adam.
ADAM: Madam in Eden, I'm Adam.
EVE: Eve, maiden name. Both sad in Eden? I dash to be manned. I am Eve.
ADAM: Madam I'm Adam. Named under a ban. A bared, nude man. Madam, I'm Adam.
EVE: Tut-tut, mad Adam. Tut-tut.
-- J. A. Lindon
Napolean's lament:
Able was I ere I saw Elba. (author unknown, c. 1820)
Has been improved with:
Unremarkable was I ere I saw Elba, Kramer, nu?
The timeless classic:
A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama!
-- Leigh Mercer, 1948
Has been improved by:
A dog, a plan, a canal: pagoda!
-- Roger Angell
A man, a plan, a cat, a canal; Panama?
-- Jim Saxe, plan file @ CMU, 9 October 1983
A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal--Panama!
-- Guy Jacobson, plan file @ CMU late 1983
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.
--Dan Hoey, 'discovered' in 1984.
Dan goes on to say "...a little work on the search algorithm could make
it several times as long."
Those wonderful proper names:
Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo,
Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena,
Ida, Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan,
Ina, Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne,
Pearl, Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora,
Tina, Arden, Noel, and Ellen sinned.
The Orgy by Clement Wood:
Di, Al, Togo, Boll, Edna, Todd, Adolf, Sir Obadiah Turner, Ollie,
Nora, El, silly Rama, Yma Sumac, St. Toby, Cal, Mike, Graf Alfie,
Leila, Roz, Owen, Gallos, Reg, Nina Noyes, Mary, Lionel, Lana, Essex,
Rex, Dr. Olim, Sal, Isobel, Ed, Axel, Ann, Odile, Leon, Bill (a Pole),
Ginger, gay Ogden, MacColl, Ewen Enid, Ansel, Gore, Lady Block,
Cindy, Sam, Ronny, Llewellyn, Norma, Syd, Nick Colby, Dale,
Rog, Les, Nadine Newell, Occam, Ned, Goya, Greg, Nigel Opal, Lib,
Noel, Eli, Donna, Lex, Adele, Bo, Silas, Milord Xerxes, Sean Allen,
oily Ramsey, Onan, Ingersoll, Agnew, Oz, Oralie, Leif LaFarge, Kim,
Lacy, Botts, Camus, Amy, Amaryllis, Lear, O'Neill, Oren, Ruth, Aida,
Boris, Flo, Dad, Dot and El Lobo got laid.
A poem:
Mood's mode!
Pallas, I won!
(Diaper pane, sold entire.)
Melt till ever sere, hide it.
Drown a more vile note;
(Tar of rennet.)
Ah, trowel, baton, eras ago.
The reward? A "nisi." Two nag.
Otary tastes putrid, yam was green.
Odes up and on; stare we.
Rats nod. Nap used one-erg saw.
(May dirt upset satyr?)
A toga now; 'tis in a drawer, eh?
Togas are notable.
(Worth a tenner for Ate`.)
Tone liver. O Man, word-tied I.
Here's revel!
Little merit, Ned? Lose, Nap?
Repaid now is all apedom's doom.
-- Hubert Phillips
Headmaster's Palindromic List on his Memo Pad:
Test on Erasmus Dr of Law
Deliver slap Stop dynamo (OTC)
Royal: phone no.? Tel: Law re Kate Race
Ref. Football. Caps on for prep
Is sofa sitable on? Pots- no tops
XI--Staff over Knit up ties ('U')
Sub-edit Nurse's order Ned (re paper)
Caning is on test (snub slip-up) Eve's simple hot dish (crib)
Birch (Sid) to help Miss Eve Pupil's buns
Repaper den T-set: no sign in a/c
Use it Red roses
Put inkspot on stopper Run Tide Bus?
Prof.--no space Rev off at six
Caretaker (wall, etc.) Noel Bat is a fossil
Too many d*** pots Lab to offer one 'Noh' play--
Wal for duo? (I'd name Dr. O) or 'Pals Reviled'?
See few owe fees (or demand IOU?) Sums are not set.
-- Joyce Johnson
(_New_Statesman_ competition in 1967. 126 words, 467 letters)
The entire book _Satire: Veritas_ is a palindrome, it starts
"Sir, I stra..." and ends "... Art, sir, is Satire: Veritas."
Jeff Grant has composed a palindrome of 10,230 words.
_Dr. Awkward & Olson in Oslo_ by Lawrence Levine (self-published, 1980)
is a palindromic novel comprising 167 pages and 31,594 words. It
starts, "Tacit, I hate gas (aroma of evil)," and ends, "live foam or a
sage Tahiti cat."
Palindromic phrases:
race car
a Toyota
semi limes
laminar animal
Good palindromes in ascending length (drum roll please):
O, no!
Do God!
Go, dog!
Old? Lo!
Top pot.
Hey, yeh.
Top spot.
Live evil.
Stun nuts.
Taft: fat!
Go do, dog.
Never even.
Pa's a sap.
Stop spots.
I prefer pi.
Regal lager.
Dot sees Tod.
Lepers repel.
Ma has a ham.
Pepsi is pep. (Richard Lederer)
Dennis sinned.
Sir, I'm Iris.
Dee saw a seed.
Del saw a sled.
Egad, an adage!
Draw, o coward!
I met System I.
Lee had a heel.
Lonely Tylenol.
Not so, Boston.
Rail at a liar.
Senile felines.
Sup not on pus.
"Naomi," I Moan.
He won snow, eh?
Laid on no dial.
Name no one man.
Peel Sam asleep.
Redraw a warder.
Step on no pets.
Do geese see God?
Ed is on no side.
Emil saw a slime.
Name now one man.
Dot saw I was Tod.
Eros' sis is sore.
Gateman's nametag.
God saw I was dog!
Lem saw I was Mel.
Naomi, did I moan?
Never odd or even.
No, evils live on.
Rise to vote, sir. (Leigh Mercer, 1925)
Sex at noon taxes.
Sleep on no peels.
Enid and Edna dine.
He stops spots, eh?
No it can - action!
Revenge Meg? Never!
Sleep not on peels.
Was it a rat I saw?
Wendel's sled: new?
A Toyota's a Toyota.
Egad, nab a bandage!
No lemons, no melon.
O, stone, be not so.
Zeus' maw swam Suez. (Josefa Heifetz)
Lager, sir, is regal. (J. A. Lindon)
Pull up if I pull up.
God, a saw was a dog!
Ma is a nun, as I am.
In a regal age ran I.
No, I met System Ion.
No, it is opposition.
Now I see bees I won.
Delia saw I was ailed.
Dr. Lime, 121 Emil Rd.
Harass selfless Sarah!
He goddam mad dog, eh? (James Thurber)
He harasses Sarah, eh?
Niagara, O roar again!
Mary bred a Derby ram.
No evil shah lives on.
Yawn a more Roman way.
Dennis and Edna sinned. (J. A. Lindon)
Now, sir, a war is won.
Rats drown in WordStar.
Star comedy: Democrats!
Drat Saddam mad dastard.
Draw pupil's lip upward.
He lived as a devil, eh?
He won a Toyota now, eh?
Red rum, sir, is murder. (J. A. Lindon)
Won't lovers revolt now?
Emil asleep peels a lime.
Eve damned Eden, mad Eve!
Must sell at tallest sum.
Red root put up to order.
A slut nixes sex in Tulsa.
Ma is as selfless as I am.
Nurse, I spy gupsies, run!
Rats live on no evil star.
Sit on a potato pan, Otis!
Slap a ham on Omaha, pals!
Top step's pup's pet spot. (Leigh Mercer)
A dog! A panic in a pagoda!
Deny me not; atone, my Ned.
Draw no dray a yard onward.
Repel evil as a live leper.
Go deliver a dare, vile dog.
I won, Karen, an era know I.
May a moody baby doom a yam?
Murder for a jar of red rum.
No "x" in "Mr. R. M. Nixon"?
Now do I repay a period won.
Now, Ned, I am a maiden won.
Oh who was it I saw, oh who?
Swen, on gnus, sung no news.
Ten animals I slam in a net.
Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Al lets Della call Ed Stella.
No, she stops spots, eh, son?
Eros? Sidney, my end is sore!
Some men interpret nine memos.
Devil Natasha, ah, Satan lived.
Draw, O Caeser, erase a coward.
Emil's Nip eels sleep in slime!
Did Eve salt an atlas? Eve did.
I, man, am regal; a German am I.
Her Eve's nose we soon sever, eh?
Golf, no sir, prefer prison flog.
No pinot noir on Orion to nip on.
O, memsahib Bart, rabbi has memo.
Trap all afoot; I too fall apart.
Evil I did dwell; lewd did I live.
Norma is as selfless as I am, Ron. (J. A. Lindon)
"Naomi, sex at noon taxes," I moan.
Yo, bad anaconda had no Canada boy.
"Asi, Buenos Dias!" said Son Eubisa.
Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age.
Egad, a base life defiles a bad age.
Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak.
Live on evasions, no, I save on evil.
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
No mists reign at Tangier, St. Simon!
Dog as a devil deified lived as a god. (C. A. Pearson, 1900)
Eureka! Till I pull up ill I take rue.
Named under a ban - a bared, nude man.
No sot nor Ottawa law at Toronto, son!
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus. (Leigh Mercer)
Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram.
Red dude kill lion. No ill-liked udder.
Reviled did I live; evil I did deliver.
Anna: "Did Otto peep?" Otto: "Did Anna?"
Eve saw diamond, erred; no maid was Eve.
Evil is the name of a foeman, as I live.
May Ron dine on eels? No, Enid, nor yam.
Stiff, O dairy-man, in a myriad of fits!
Address of Emil Otto Lime: Fosse Rd., DA.
Aim a Toyota tatami mat at a Toyota, Mia.
Did I draw Della too tall, Edward? I did?
I roamed under it as a tired, nude Maori.
He won't, ah, wander, Edna. What now, eh?
To Peru, named llama mall 'De Manure Pot'.
Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna.
Cigar? Toss it in a can. It is so tragic. (J. A. Lindon)
Stop, Syrian! I start at rats in airy spots.
I roamed under rats as a starred, nude Maori.
Peel's lager, red rum did murder regal sleep.
Paget saw an Irish tooth, Sir, in a waste gap.
We few erase cares, Al; laser aces are we few.
Dog as a devil deified; deified lived as a god. (cf. Pearson, 1900)
No, it is opposed; art sees trade's opposition.
Level? No, I tan, I'm at no contamination level.
Mad Zeus, no live devil, lived evil on Suez Dam.
No, it's a bar of gold, a bad log for a bastion.
Now stop, major-general, are negro jam-pots won?
Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts. (Leigh Mercer)
Live dirt up a side track carted is a putrid evil.
Name tarts? No medieval slave, I demonstrate man!
No gnu have never after fret far, even Eva hung on.
Now, Ned, I am a maiden nun; Ned, I am a maiden won.
We repaid a no name Pacific ape man on a diaper, ew!
Do good's deeds live on? No, evil's deeds do, O God!
Here we no got conical ill lilac in octogon ewer, eh?
Salamander a ton now. Raw war won not, a Red Nam, alas.
Did I do, O God, did I do as I said I'd do? Good, I did!
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
I prevent U-boats, tar, evil live rats, Tao but never pi.
Desserts I desire not, so long no lost one rise distressed.
Revered now I live on. O, did I do no evil, I wonder, ever?
Fool! A dog lives sad a boxer, Rex. O bad ass evil god aloof!
Fool! A dog lives sad a boxer, Rex. O bad ass evil god aloof!
'Tenor Octopus Night' netted a cadet tenth ginsu pot, coronet.
Won total, I am a pro. Bali radar I labor. Pa, mail a tot now!
I saw desserts; I'd no lemons, alas, no melon; distressed was I.
Yo, boy! Trap gnus, nude. 'Kangaroo Rag' naked unsung party, O boy!
Did I strap red nude, red rump, also slap murdered underparts? I did!
Doc, note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod. (Peter Hilton, 1943; Penelope Gilliat [Whiteley]?)
So regards Rat's Lib: regrets no more hero monster gerbil stars' drag Eros.
Degas, are we not drawn onward, we freer few, drawn onward to new eras aged?
Garret, I ogle. Enemy democrats party; trap star comedy men, eel goiter rag.
Named undenominationally rebel, I rile Beryl? La, no! I tan. I'm, O Ned, nude, man!
Sagas emit taxes, rat snot, or pastrami. I'm Arts, a proton star - sex at times a gas.
Dr. Ana, Cataracts. Uranium enema smarts if fist rams, Amen! Emu in a rust car at a canard.
T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad; I'd assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet. (Alastair Reid)
Some word (not letter) palindromes:
Does milk machinery milk does?
Women understand men; few men understand women.
bores are people that say that people are bores.
So patient a doctor to try to doctor a patient so. (J. A. Lindon)
God knows man. What is doubtful is what man knows God.
You can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you?
Girl, bathing on Bikini, eyeing boy, finds boy eyeing
bikini on bathing girl.
Amusing is that company of fond people bores people fond of
company that is amusing. (J. A. Lindon)
Word palindrome poem:
Dies slowly fading day, winds mournful sigh,
Brightly stars are waking;
Flies owlet hooting, holding revel high,
Nightly silence breaking.
Breaking silence nightly,
High revel holding, hooting owlet flies;
Waking are stars brightly,
Sigh mournful winds, day fading slowly dies.
A. Cyril Pearson, Pictured Puzzles and Word Play,
George Routledge and Sons, London, 1907, p. 314
Line palindrome poems:
As I was passing near the jail
I met a man, but hurried by.
His face was ghastly, grimly pale.
He had a gun. I wondered why
He had. A gun? I wondered... why,
His face was *ghastly*! Grimly pale,
I met a man, but hurried by,
As I was passing near the jail.
DOPPELGANGER (umlaut on the A)
Entering the lonely house with my wife,
I saw him for the first time
Peering furtively from behind a bush--
Blackness that moved,
A shape amid the shadows,
A momentary glimpse of gleaming eyes
Revealed in the ragged moon.
A closer look (he seemed to turn) might have
Put him to flight forever--
I dared not
(For reasons that I failed to understand),
Though I knew I should act at once.
I puzzled over it, hiding alone,
Watching the woman as she neared the gate.
He came, and I saw him crouching
Night after night.
Night after night
He came, and I saw him crouching,
Watching the woman as she neared the gate.
I puzzled over it, hiding alone--
Though I knew I should act at once,
For reasons that I failed to understand
I dared not
Put him to flight forever.
A closer look (he seemed to turn) might have
Revealed in the ragged moon
A momentary glimpse of gleaming eyes,
A shape amid the shadows,
Blackness that moved.
Peering furtively from behind a bush,
I saw him, for the first time,
Entering the lonely house with my wife.
Some palindromic names:
Laval
(prime minister of Vichy government)
Lon Nol
(former premier of Cambodia)
U Nu
(former premier of Burma)
Revilo P. Oliver
(professor at U. of Illinois; his father and grandfather have/had
the same name, which was deliberately contrived)
Wassamassaw
(a swamp north of Charleston SC)
Yreka Bakery
(a former business in Yreka CA)
Yrella Gallery
(a business which later occupied the same premises)
Elite Tile
(a plausible business name)
Lion Oil
(a plausible business name)
Some Latin palindromes:
A palindromic word square:
sator
arepo
tenet
opera
rotas
Palindromes of palindromic words:
Odo tenet mulum, madidam mulum tenet Odo.
Anna tenet mappam, madidam mappam tenet Anna.
Miscellaneous palindromes:
Ablata at alba
(Banished, but blameless)
Si nummi immunis.
(Give me my fee, I warrant you free.)
Signa te signa; temere me tangis et angis.
(Cross, cross yourself; you annoy and vex me without necessity.)
Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.
(Owing to my exertions, Rome, your desire, will soon be near.)
Bei Leid lieh stets Heil die Lieb.
(In trouble comfort is lent by love.)
Sole medere pede ede, perede melos.
Acide me malo, sed non desola me medica.
Si bene te tua laus taxat sua laute tenebis.
Et necat eger amor non Roma rege tacente,
Roma reges una non anus eger amor.
Signa te, signa, temere me tangis et angis,
Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.
Area serenum me gere regem munere sacra
Solem arcas animos, imina sacra, melos.
Roma ibi tibi sedes - ibi tibi Amor;
Roma etsi te terret et iste Amor
Ibi etsi vis te non esse - sedes ibi
Roma tenet et amor.
(At Rome you live, at Rome you love;
From Rome that love may you affright,
Although you'd leave, you never move,
For love and Rome both fear your flight.)
References:
Palindromes and Anagrams
Howard W. Bergerson
Dover Publications
New York
1973
ISBN 0-486-20664-5.
Lid Off a Daffodil
John Pool
Henry Holt and Co.
New York
1982
ISBN 0-030-04427-8
The Oxford Guide to Word Games, chapter 11, titled "Palindromes"
Tony Augarde
Oxford University Press
Oxford
1984
ISBN 0-19-214144-9
The Palindromicon
Jeff Grant
Word Ways Monograph Series 3
Spring Valley Road, Morristown, NJ 07960
1992
From A to Zotamorf: The Dictionary of Palindromes
Stephen Chism
Word Ways Monograph Series 4
Spring Valley Road, Morristown, NJ 07960
1992
I Love Me, Vol. I: S. Wordrow's Palindrome Encyclopedia
Michael Donner
Algonquin Books
Chapel Hill
1996
ISBN 1-56512-109-0
Of Anagrams
H. B. Wheatley
Williams & Norgate
London
1862
Additional material
[ Editor: palindromes and notes from rec.puzzles, alt.anagrams,
rec.humor and mail, 1993-1998. Palindromes already given in the entry
above have been left out, including from the long lists quoted
below. ]
POLITICAL PALINDROMES
by Mark Saltveit
BILL CLINTON:
The apologetic Democrat says:
Not nil: Clinton
Re: media coverage of the new administration
So snide! Pork cuts are not nil. Clinton era stuck, roped in. SOS!
Slapdash, self-royal Clinton's not nil. Clay or flesh, sad pals?
Emil: "Slam it. Power bastion not nil, Clinton. No, it's a brew -
optimal slime."
AL GORE:
Rush Limbaugh says:
Flog sad loser Al. Gore, zero, glares, old as golf.
Tipper replies:
Rot! Aid Al Gore - hero, gladiator.
The press is undecided:
Red now, rotund Al Gore? Zero, glad nut, or wonder?
But all agree his charisma is the key. Republican version:
Aide malarial from Al Gore: zero glamor, flair ala media.
Democratic version:
Aide malarial from Al Gore: hero glamor, flair ala media.
Politically incorrect version, from aide's point of view:
Nips delirial from Al Gore: zero glamor, flair. I led spin.
DONNA SHALALA:
The reader is left to imagine the context of this palindrome.
"Al! Al! " "Ah, Shalala!"
OR
"Al! Al! Ah." - Shalala
BOB DOLE
Liar emits a snaky Dole melody, Kansas time. Rail!
Resold Dole - eel, odd loser!
Dole vs. Kennedy:
Despot Bob tops Ed.
Derail sad Dole - crap parcel, odd as liar Ed.
All palindromes original and unpublished. Copyright (c) 1993 by Mark
Saltveit
-- Mark Saltveit <msalt@well.sf.ca.us>
[ Editor: from the thread "Palindromes (originals *ONLY*!!)", October
1993, in which Saltveit asked for original palindromic sentences: ]
Star nuts stun rats.
-- David Alpert <collins@powdml.enet.dec.com>
I tan, I mull, I live on no evil illuminati.
Segal lives on nose villages.
Macro frog irks - I risk rigor for cam.
I make Emperor E.T.'s nominee ten into borg robot nineteen. I monster,
o rep? Meek am I!
-- Geoff Bailey (Fred the Wonder Worm) <ftww@cs.su.oz.au>
And Merlyn LeRoy made a very good extension of the previously published
Idi Amin 'drome: To Idi A. Dada - a dad, a idiot.
Let's go to the next level:
Wary alpine zen - I play raw!
No, I tan - I cull a hallucination.
God damn! I - evil asserts - impugn a bastion of rabies use. I barf!
O, no, it's a bang-up mistress, alive in Maddog!
[For you non-Americans who don't read Bukowski, et. al., Maddog is a
brand of high-alcohol wine popular among street drunkards in America.]
-- Mark Saltveit <msalt@well.sf.ca.us>
Emil, a sleepy baby peels a lime.
No, Mel, a sleepy baby peels a lemon.
Dennis, Nell, Edna, a Mr. Idi Amin Dada, Dad-n-I, Maid Irma, and Ellen
sinned.
-- Paul Terpstra <terpstra@geoserv.isgs.uiuc.edu>
Oh, cameras are macho.
K.L. at Sun got EMACS, so boss came to GNU's talk.
-- Felix Lee <flee@cse.psu.edu>
He's won ken of ill etiology; named a mere hoot, and no stats on DNA,
too. Here made many go, "Lo!, I tell if one knows, eh?"
-- Mark Isaak <isaak@aurora.com> (written in honor of a
Creationist)
Charles Seife (seife-charles@math.yale.edu) wrote two palindromes:
"Oh, God, no! Sununu's on dog ho!"
"Slap, strap Sununu's parts, pals!"
The best Sununu palindrome is still the one from Herb Caen's column
just before the imperious chief of staff lost his job:
"Wonder if Sununu's fired now?"
-- Mark Saltveit <msalt@well.sf.ca.us>
Biff the Magic Dragon wrote (and Tom Magliery solved) this palindrome
puzzle:
God! Nate ate a Tibetan dog!
-- Mark Saltveit
I think that should be God! Nate BIT a tibetan dog!
-- Luis Jose Maysonet <luism@tucson.Princeton.EDU>
By the way, my version of the Mal Waldron puzzle was a little
different:
Sin? Net slam, sir, is Mal's tennis.
(reads a little better than not, on Mal's tennis)
-- Mark Saltveit
[ Editor: more postings, 1994-1997: ]
A pre-war dresser drawer, Pa!
-- Bob Rosenberg <rrosenbe@mason1.gmu.edu>
Yo Bob! Mug a gumbo boy.
Eva can ignite virtuosos out riveting in a cave.
-- from a list posted by Don Lundell <dc@opus.com>
My favorite palindrome is:
Go hang a salami! I'm a lasagna hog!
I didn't make this one up (I wish I had!); it's from a book with the
same title.
-- brenae@UWYO.EDU
Agee, Jon.
Go hang a salami! I'm a lasagna hog! and other palindromes / by Jon
Agee. -- 1st ed. -- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991.
ISBN 0374334730
-- Lenore Jones <lhj@vega.stanford.EDU>
Roger Angell, in his book 'A Day in the Life of Roger Angell', adds a
few to the Napoleon genre:
Remarkable was I ere I saw Elba, Kramer.
Unremarkable was I ere I saw Elba, Kramer, nu?
Lana C. LaDaug was I ere I saw Guadalcanal.
And one he wrote on an envelope and gave to my wife when he was here
for a lecture fifteen years ago:
Tennis tips: saliva. Vilas spits in net.
-- mmth@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
From the book "Illusions" edited by Edi Lanners:
Did Hannah see bees, Hannah did.
Too hot to hoot.
Trade ye no more moneyed art.
Dog deifiers reified God.
-- quoted by John H <tnz_akl@iconz.co.nz>
I just came across the word "testset" in a document on software
verification. It is not in my dictionary, though.
-- Ulf Lunde <Ulf.Lunde@kvatro.no>
A Toyota! Race fast safe car, a Toyota!
-- Jason Patterson <patters@dirac.scri.fsu.edu>
How about GOLDENROD-ADORNED LOG. Can anyone include a longer English
word (albeit coined) in a palindrome?
-- Murray100 <murray100@aol.com>
Rettebs iflahd noces, eh? Ttu, but the second half is better.
(not one of mine, unfortunately.)
-- Craig <crs2@aber.ac.uk>
Courtesy of Twareque Ali:
T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad: I'd
assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet.
-- Susan M. Smith <smithak@kits.sfu.ca>
[ Editor: the entry above credits this palindrome to Alastair Reid. ]
Here's a palindrome that I got from a friend who got it from someone
at Juilliard in New York. It concerns the time the famous soloist
Paganini had sponges pop out of his violin and was so embarrassed he
stormed off stage...;-)
"Loofahs in a violin in a gap; I Paganini; lo, I vanish, a fool."
-- Shiva 2028 <elozowsk@pop.srv.ualberta.ca>
With regards to the "Able was I ere I saw Elba" palindrome, I think a
laudable second palindrome to go with it would be:
"Laudable Elba dual."
-- Marvin Pilansky <god@heaven.com>
I came up with a decent one:
Ma, I am God. Deified dogma I am.
Also....
Star ban: No damn Madonna brats.
-- Rosenmar <rosenmar@aol.com>
1) Acrobats stab Orca.
2) Boston did not sob.
3) Red rum, si, is murder.
-- VassarS1@aol.com
[ Editor: the following are new items from four long lists of
palindromes, merged here in alphabetical order: lists posted by Jim
Huang <jhuang@itsmail1.hamilton.edu> (August 1994, "saved from
rec.humor a long, long time ago"), by Andrew Rogers
<rogers@sasuga.Hi.COM> (September 1994, from rec.humor.d in 1992,
containing lists signed by Pete Biggs <pete@physchem.ox.ac.uk> and
Timothy M. Kunau <tim.kunau@medtronic.com>), by George Katele
<gkatele@interaccess.com> (rec.humor, February 1995), and John
Jensen's "John's Official Palindrome List", version 2.2, April 1995
<76104.2030@compuserve.com>. Contributors of individual items are not
named in the lists. Some items are jokes rather than true
palindromes. ]
11 * 181 = 1991 = 181 * 11
"M" lab menial slain: embalm.
"Miry rim! So many daffodils," Delia wailed, "slid off a dynamo's
miry rim!"
"Reviled did I live," said I, "as evil I did deliver."
'Tis in a DeSoto sedan I sit
(... Yawn.) Madonna Fan? No damn way!
A fine snore, rare Ronsen IFA.
A Fool, A Tool, A Pool; LOOPALOOTALOOFA!
A man, a plan, a canal...Suez!
A man, a plan, a cat, a yak, a yam, a canal; Panama!
A relic, Odin! I'm a mini, docile Ra!
A tin mug for a jar of gum, Nita.
A Toyota! Race fast, safe car. A Toyota
Age, irony, Noriega.
Ah, Satan sees Natasha.
aibohphobia [fear of palindromes]
Alan Alda stops racecar, spots ad: "Lana-L.A."
amaryllis sillyrama
And DNA and DNA and DNA . . .
Animal loots foliated detail of stool lamina.
Barge in! Relate mere war of 1991 for a were-metal Ernie grab!
Bird rib.
Bombard a drab mob.
Bonk! One Mac. Newton sees not wen came (no knob).
Bush saw Sununu swash sub.
But sad Eva saved a stub.
Cain: A maniac!
Camus sees sumac.
Daedalus: nine, Peninsula: dead.
Dairy myriad.
Dammit I'm Mad!
Damn! I, Agassi, miss again! Mad!
Deirdre wets altar of St. Simons - no mists, for at last ewer dried.
Denim axes examined.
Depardieu, go razz a rogue I draped.
Desserts, I stressed!
Dior droid.
DNA-land.
Do good? I? No! Evil anon I deliver: I maim nine more hero-men in
Saginaw; sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I--lo!--rack, cut a drowsy rat
in Aswan; I gas nine more hero-men in Miami; reviled I (Nona) live
on. I do, O God!
Do not start at rats to nod.
Drat Sadat, a dastard!
Drat Saddam, a mad dastard!
Dumb mud.
E. Borgnine drags Dad's gardening robe.
Ed, I saw Harpo Marx ram Oprah W. aside.
Egad! No bondage!
Emit Eno one time.
Emit no tot on time.
Emordnilap palindrome.
emu fat sap pasta fume
Enid and Edna dine:
Eda Nomel's lemonade
Bel Paese a pleb
Parkay yak rap
Feeble el beef
Roti de pup editor
Eel, urbane hen a brulee
Self-furnace Pecan ruffles
Enola Devil lived alone.
Er, go on, trap Steven in, I say. Me oh my! Nor can an "air" bee sew.
We see, Brian. An acronym? Hoe my asinine vet's part? No, ogre!
Erotic, I gammon ever on, else partisan, I live evil in a sit.
Rapes Lenore: venom magic I tore.
Eva, can I stab bats in a cave?
Evil olive.
Fart, R.A.F.
Flee to me, remote elf.
Flesh! Saw I Mimi wash self!
Gert, I saw Ron avoid a radio-van - or was it Reg?
Gnu dung.
God damn! Mad dog.
God lived as a devil dog
God to Hanoi on a hot dog
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
God, a slap! Paris, sir, appals a dog.
God, Edam made dog.
Goldenrod-adorned log
Gustav Klimt milk vats - ug!
Harasoo, Sarah!
He did, eh?
He maps spam, eh?
I did not revert on didi
I did, did I?
I fled Delfi
I maim Miami.
I'm runnin'! - Nurmi
I, Mary, tramp martyr. Am I?
I, Rasputin, knit up Sari.
I, zani Nazi.
If I had a hi-fi
Is Don Adams mad? (A nod.) Si!
Jar a tonga, nag not a raj.
Kayak salad - Alaska yak.
Kayak.
KC, answer DNA loop award. Emit time. Draw a Pool. Andrew, snack.
Laminated E.T. animal.
Lay a wallaby baby ball away, Al.
Let O'Hara gain an inn in a Niagara hotel.
Lew, Otto has a hot towel!
Lid of fade, metallic soot, emit Garret-simple, help mister ragtime to
oscillate me, daffodil.
Lisa Bonet ate no basil.
Live not on evil.
Llewopnotyalc, Madam, I'm Adam Clayton Powell.
Man, Eve let an irate tar in at eleven a.m.
Man, Oprah's sharp on A.M.
Mayhem, eh Yam?
N.A. medico: "Negro Jamaica? A CIA major genocide, man."
Nail, ligature, rut. A Gillian?
Nam was a saw man
Ned, go gag Ogden.
Neil A. sees alien!
No cabs' bulbs? A gnat's tool loots Tan "Gas" Blub's bacon.
No misses ordered roses, Simon.
No side, no in union, Edison.
No stetson hats. Operas are post. Ah, no stetson.
No, Mel Gibson is a casino's big lemon.
Nog eroded Oregon.
Noriega can idle, held in a cage...Iron!
Nosegay ages on.
Not lads simple, help Miss Dalton.
Not New York, Roy went on.
O Bobo! Get INDY clear! He'd render a red nerd eh? RA! El Cid nite! Go
Bobo!
O, geronimo, no minor ego!
O.E.D. or rodeo?
Oh, no! Don Ho!
Otto did bob did otto
Paganini: Din in A Gap.
Party boobytrap.
Plan no damn Madonna LP.
Poor Dan is in a droop.
Rat-star.
Raw, evil dam on Niagara. Gain net time! Sub bus, emit ten Niagara!
Gain no mad, live war!
Red lost case, Ma. Jesse James acts older.
Red Nevada vendor.
Redivider.
Reflog a golfer
Reno loner
Rise, sir lapdog! Revolt, lover! God, pal, rise, sir!
Rise, take lame female Kate, sir.
Rob a loneliness? Senile, no labor.
Rococo "R".
Rot-corpse Sumatran art amuses proctor.
Rub bur.
Sad, I'm Midas.
Saw tide rose? So red it was.
Sex-aware era waxes.
Sh, Tom sees moths.
Sir, I soon saw Bob was no Osiris.
Sis, ask Costner to not rent socks "As Is"!
Sis, Sargasso Moss a grass is.
Sniff'um muffins.
Snug all L.A. guns!
So, G. Rivera's tots are virgos.
So, Ida, adios!
Solo gigolos.
Sore eye, Eros?
Sore was I ere I saw Eros.
Stab nail at ill Italian bats.
Star comedy by Democrats.
Stella won no wallets
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots!
Strategem: megatarts.
straw warts
Stunts is. Niece insist nuts.
Suneva, Nina is sure Russian in a Venus.
T. Eliot nixes sex in toilet!
Tarzan raised a Desi Arnaz rat.
Tarzan raised Desi Arnaz' rat.
Tense, I snap Sharon roses, or Norah's pansies net.
The almanac can am laeth
The fat cop spoke in a strange tongue: "Eugnot egnarts a ni ekops poc
taf eht."
To Idi Amin: I'm a idiot!
Toni Tennille fell in net. I, not!
Too bad, I hid a boot.
Trafalgar rag: La Fart
Trays simple help, missy art!
Tulsa night life: filth, gin, a slut.
Tuna nut
U.F.O. tofu.
Vanna, wanna V?
Viva le te de Tel Aviv
Vote to not slip up, refer pupils to note TOV.
Warsaw was raw.
Was it a bar or a bat I saw?
Was it a bat I saw?
Was it a cat I saw?
Was raw tap ale not a reviver at one lap at Warsaw?
We panic in a pew.
We seven, Eve, sew.
Woman maps yam snot and DNA--Tons may spam Nam. Ow!
Yell upset a cider: predicates pulley.
Yo! job mug gumbo joy!
Yo! Bottoms up, U.S. Motto, boy!
[ Editor: "The almanac can am laeth" is not an exact palindrome: it
begins "the" and ends "eth". ]
(sort of a palindrome)
"Son I am able," she said though you scare me."
"Watch," said I
"beloved," I said "watch me scare you though." said she,
"able am I, Son."
-- from the lists of George Katele and John Jensen
[ Editor: Dan Hoey's note on the history of the Panama palindromes,
included in the lists of Andrew Rogers and John Jensen: ]
As far as I know, the first person to put a cat in the canal was Jim
Saxe, in his 9 October 1983 plan file.
A man, a plan, a cat, a canal -- Panama?
Guy Jacobson added several items later that year.
A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal -- Panama!
Guy's palindrome appears on page 127 of COMMON LISP, THE LANGUAGE (page
170 of the 2nd edition). The 2nd edition of COMMON LISP, THE LANGUAGE
also contains the remarkable:
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps,
snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a
banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo,
cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal -- Panama!
which is presumably the work of Guy Steele, the book's author.
I dredged up the problem in 1984, and discovered the following 540-word
version with the help of a computer program that I wrote. [ Editor:
the 540-word palindrome given in the entry above. ]
This was done with the Unix spelling dictionary and a fairly
simple-minded program. With a better word list and a smarter program
I'm sure the palindrome could be ten times as long.
I am somewhat concerned that people have been redistributing these
palindromes without attribution. Please don't do so. And if you get a
copy of my palindrome without my name on it, I would appreciate it if
you mention my objection to whoever sends it to you.
-- Dan Hoey <Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil>
[ Editor: the canoe-pasta palindrome was also sent to the National
Puzzlers' League list in May 1996 by Rick Rubenstein
<rick@clockwork.org>, as coming from the web site
http://www.bxscience.edu/~grollman/new/palendromes. ]
[ Editor: palindromic names. ]
In article <2oh8ho$10f@jaws.cs.hmc.edu>, Kurtis Araki <karaki@hmc.edu>
wrote:
>When I was in high school, I played tennis against a guy named Telved
>Devlet. And I guess it wasn't accidental according to him...
In the middle ages, such constructions were more common than they are
today, especially in Italy. One of the more outstanding exemplars of
this tradition of naming was Ordelaffo Falier, doge of Venice from 1102
to 1118. He was respected and well-beloved in his time; chiefly
remembered today for having been doge during the first of Venice's
catastrophic floods -- the one in 1109. At first glance, his name's
secret is not revealed to us, but the Latin form of the family name is
FALEDRUS and, also in Latin, the most common contemporary spelling of
his first name is URDELAFUS, with ORDELAFUS as a close second -- hence
ORDELAFUS FALEDRUS. The name is still borne by members of the Falier
family, who are to be found in largish numbers in Venice and its
environs, but this is more in memory of the doge and his fame than from
any desire to perpetuate a palindromic name that is little recognized
today.
-- Frank Young <tipcat@wam.umd.edu>
I was emotionally scarred by going to a high school which was a
palindrome of my name (Glenelg), so krill me now.
-- Glen Osterhout <glen@pps.com>
[ Editor: a word-unit palindrome story. ]
George Katele <gkatele@interaccess.com> wrote:
>>If I'm not mistaken, there was a whole novel that was one palindrome.
If it's the one I think it is, it's not a novel, just a short story,
and I used to be able to recite it. Here goes:
Professor Jones had been working in his lab. "I have discovered
the secret of time", he told his daughter one day. "Time is a field.
This machine I have made can manipulate, even reverse that field."
Pushing a button as he spoke, he said "this should make time run
backwards run time make should this" said he, spoke he as button a
pushing. Field that, reverse even, manipulate can made have I machine
this. Field a is time." Day one daughter his told he, "time of secret
the discovered have I". Lab his in working been had Jones Professor.
I'm sorry I don't remember the author- it was one of the better known
ones like Sprague [Editor: "Spraugue" in the original] DeCamp or
somebody. We had a lot of fun with it; it has a cadence when you
actually recite it that makes it easy to memorize.
-- Craig Wall <cwall@swri.edu>
[ Editor: a poem. ]
Drawn Onward
by Felicia Lamport
The learned men of Rome
could turn a palindrome
but they were not the first.
For Adam, says the myth,
began conversing with
a sentence that reversed:
"Madam, I'm Adam"
seemed
a phrase to be esteemed
the moment it was popped.
But that was not to be
- his lady instantly
said
"Eve"
which left it topped.
Anonymous, the most
prolific bard, can boast
of being host
to these:
"Was it a car or a cat I saw ?"
"I prefer pi."
"Some men interpret nine memos."
"Lewd did I live, evil I did dwel."
"Sex at noon taxes."
"A man, a plan, a canal, Panama !"
"Stop, murder us not, tonsured rumpots !"
"Able was I, ere I saw elba."
"Straw ? No, too stupid a fad. I put soot on warts."
"Doc, note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet
on cod."
"Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak."
and
"Sit on a potato pan, Otis !"
What span, what palindromic bliss !
I've wrung the alphabet
repeatedly to get
a Janus-phrase so spry
at backwards somersaults.
But as each hope turns false,
in words, alas, drown I.
No, the whole thing is not a palindrome, but it contains most of the
more famous ones. And one or two (or three) not-so-famous, hidden
ones.
-- David Rysdam <drysda02@ursa.calvin.edu>
[ Editor: Martin Gardner on Leigh Mercer and J. A. Lindon, quoted by
Mark Brader: ]
From Martin Gardner's 6th collection:
# In my opinion the finest English palindrome continues to be
# "A man, a plan, a canal -- Panama!" It has recently been
# attributed to James Thurber, but it was composed many years
# ago by Leigh Mercer of London, one of the greatest living
# palindromists. An unpublished Mercer palindrome, which is
# also something of a tongue twister, is "Top step's pup's pet
# spot."
# Another Mercer palindrome, remarkable for both its length
# and naturalness, is "Straw? No, too stupid a fad. I put
# soot on warts." J.A. Lindon of Weybridge, England, is
# another master palindromist who turns them out by the
# hundreds. Who would suspect a palindrome if, in a novel,
# he came on the following Lindon sentence: "Norma is as
# selfless as I am, Ron." Lindon has also composed a large
# number of palindromes in which words rather than letters
# are the units. For instance: "So patient a doctor to try
# to doctor a patient so" and "Amusing is that company of fond
# people bores people fond of company that is amusing."
The collection was published in 1971 and the column apparently
originally appeared in September 1964.
The article gives no specific sources for specific items, but cites:
"Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities" by William S. Walsh (1892, J.B.
Lippincott)
"Playing with Words" by Joseph T. Shipley (1960, Prentice-Hall)
"Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature" by C.C. Bombaugh
(1961, Dover)
"Language on Vacation" by Dmitri A. Borgmann (1965, Charles Scribner's
Sons[*])
"Games for Insomniacs" by John G. Fuller (1966, Doubleday)
"Beyond Language" by Dmitri A. Borgmann (1967, Charles Scribner's Sons)
"300 Best Word Puzzles" by Henry Ernest Dudeney (1925, reprinted 1968,
Charles Scribner's Sons)
[*] London: John Lane, the Bodley Head
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
-- from the copyright page of a book by Max
Beerbohm
This plan announcement, nicely read,
Iambically runs.
-- Added by Beerbohm, quoted in Gardner's
article
-- Mark Brader <msb@sq.com>
[ Editor: palindromes in other languages. ]
[ Editor: Latin, French and German palindromes already in this entry
and in language/french/french.palindromes and
language/german/german.palindromes are left out. ]
Danish:
regninger (bills, as in somebody want money from you)
-- Inger Marie B. Jakobsen <iakob@iesd.auc.dk>
Dutch (from John Jensen's list):
kok (cook)
lol (fun)
lepel (spoon)
kook (to boil)
neen (comp. to nope)
Estonian:
K U U L I L E N N U T E E T U N N E L I L U U K
The words are: KUULI bullet
LENNU flight
TEE path
TUNNELI tunnel's
LUUK cover
It has to do with a bullet in ballistics and means roughly: "Flight
path of a bullet (tested) in a (wind) tunnel with its cover." It is
pronounced just about as it is written.
-- given to Rosemary Turpin <rturpin@ican.net> by her friend
John Raudsepp
Finnish:
Saippuakauppias (soap dealer)
saippuakivikauppias (soap stone seller)
-- Laura Kataja <lkataja@cc.Helsinki.FI>
saippuakalasalakauppias (illegal soap fish dealer)
-- Mauri Haikola <mjh@stekt.oulu.fi>
suolatalous - salt economy
iso rikas sika sokosakissa kirosi - a fat rich pig cursed in a
poker gang
isa, ala myy myymalaasi - father, don't sell your shop (two dots
over those a's)
Eno, rehtori. A fair other one. (Uncle, the rector. A fair other
one.)
I wonder if the English-speaking world has anything like the palindrome
book that a Finnish comedy group (they are also a band and have made
records) has written: "Retki-dikter" by Alivaltiosihteeri. A whole
book of palindromes and palindromic poems.
-- Mauri Haikola
German (from John Jensen's list):
Ein leder gurt trug Redel nie.
(A leather belt never carried Redel)
Latin:
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
[ Editor: given by CPERRY@vma.cc.nd.edu as composed in the
Middle Ages; "it has to do with a dream in which the dreamer
attended a celebration in Hell, and was told the following".
Christoph Enzinger translates: "In the circle of light we step
at night and are burned from the fire." ]
Subi dura a rudibus (endure rough treatment from uncultured
brutes)
A Nap, a Lamb, ab mal ap ana.
(He who is holy shall not nap with lambs.) -- John Jensen's list
Some other latin palindromes (I have 83):
ablata at alba (Mary Stuart)
Arca serenum me gere regem munere sacra,
Solem, aulas, animos, omina salva melos.
(Henry 3rd of France)
Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor. (Quintillian)
Si bene te tua laus taxat, sua laute tenebis. (Plinius)
-- Christoph Enzinger <leo@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
[ Editor: these four are in the entry above without sources;
Enzinger's version of the Henry III palindrome differs from the
entry's "Area serenum ... Solem arcas animos, imina sacra,
melos". ]
Spanish:
Dabale arroz a la zorra el abad (The abbot was giving rice to the
fox)
Swedish:
Ni talar bra latin (you speak good Latin)
Welsh:
Llad dafad dall (kill a blind sheep)
[ Editor: books of palindromes not in the reference list above, from
Richard Sabey (May 1995): ]
Madam I'm Adam and Other Palindromes
ed. William Irvine
illus. Steven Guarnaccia
Scribner's
1987
[Over 70 illustrated palindromes. Paperback. Reviewed in Word Ways,
Aug 1988, p.185]
If I had a hi-fi
ed. William Irvine
illus. Steven Guarnaccia
Dell Books
1992
[60 illustrated palindromes. Paperback. Reviewed in Word Ways, Nov
1992, p.223]
Go Hang a Salami, I'm a Lasagna Hog
ed.&illus. Jon [Editor: "John" in the original] Agee
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
1991
[56 illustrated palindromes. Reviewed in Word Ways, Feb 1993, p.13]
So Many Dynamos
ed.&illus. Jon [Editor: "John" in the original] Agee
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
1994
[59 illustrated palindromes. Reviewed in Word Ways, Feb 1995, p.37]
[ Editor: Sabey's comments on two books already in the list above: ]
Palindromes and Anagrams
Howard W. Bergerson
[very good]
Lid Off a Daffodil
John Pool
Holt, Rinehart and Winston [Editor: "Wilson" in the original]
1982
[the palindromes here are not good, and most are trivial]
-- Richard Sabey <rsa@swindon.gpsemi.com>
[ Editor: from The Public Domain Palindrome Page (Nanci Ellis, 1996),
section "Other palindromes". ]
"Acoustic" palindromes
That is, sounds the same when played backwards...
Onimous Cinema
We Revere You
"Visual" palindromes
Looks the same in the mirror...
A TOYOTA
CHOICE (Top to bottom)
Dog Sees Ada
Adam? I'm Adam! Moody, me? Dam it (sic)! Are we all? I know Ada. I
saw Ada.
Ah, a short symbol to no denial: Eyes omit naive dog-desserts. Evil
right, old-name diets. A tree-bonnet foliate, relax: If Ada did pull
order, read. Ada had a foe, fire-rose facade tool, too-hot yard Iraq:
arid Elijah at a haj. I lead a reviled noose, Canadian!
It is coded, on a pistol by Rome, "Man is an ardor pelt, tactiler, sad."
A tacit sin, a rude Roman enema. I ran; Agnus Dei, Dada lived on.
I, a gap, a zero monad, Ada's nose: "Rift on, evil royal pilots!" I
pass a nasal acolyte. I pondered, now idle.
His flack: late no-no's, tits, a cow. Two-cow, to tenor of God! A sin
is a sign, ignoble udder-cases! La femme fatale gnawed at a
phone-post, also lost call, eh? She'll act solo, slats open. Oh, pat a
dew-angel at a femme false. Sacred duel, bonging is a sin; is a dog?
For one to two-cow two, cast it so none talk calfs!
I held, I wondered. No piety local as an ass. A pistol (I play, or
live not) fires on sad Ada. "No more!" Zap! Again. O devil! Ada
died, sung an aria. Men, enamored, uranistic at Ada's relit cattle
prod, ran as in a memory blot.
Sip an ode, Doc; sit in. Aid an ace, soon deliver Ada! Elijah!
At a haj, I led Iraq (arid ray to hoot), looted a cafe sore, rife of
Ada. Had Ada erred? Roll up. Did Ada fix ale, retail? Often. "No
beer taste," I demand, "loth girl! I've stressed! Go, deviant!"
"I mosey!"
"Elaine, Do not lob my Stroh's!"
Aha! Ada was I; Ada won. Kill a ewe, racist.
I made my doom: "Madam, I'm ADA!"
Ada sees God.
Copyright (c) 1991-1997 by Gordon Dow. All Rights Reserved.
[Raisin?]
[ Editor: a Panama variation, quoted on the NPL mailing list in May 1996
from a message by Rick Rubenstein: ]
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps,
snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a
banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo,
cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal--Panama!
[ Editor: Henri Picciotto, replying, pointed to more Panama variations
on Neil Picciotto's palindrome page; see references/web.sites. ]
[ Editor: the N-Z part of Christoph Enzinger's list "reciprocal
palindromes n-z" <leo@cosy.sbg.ac.at>. Items already in this entry
(including earlier supplements) are left out, as are slight variants
of them, except four (bar of gold, Ottawa, major-general, dairy-man)
repeated for the captions they carry here. The numbers in
parentheses are source codes whose key is not in the collected part
of the list; the German notes are Enzinger's. ]
Name is Orton, not Rosie, Man! (18)
Name none man.
Name tarts? No, medieval slave, I demonstrate man!
(A surly student, hating sweets, 10)
"Naomi", I moan.
Natasha? Ah, Satan!
New RA, arwen? (5)
Niagara, far again.
Nob big eye tarot, to rate ye gibbon! (1)
"No cab, eh, Ted?" I sat up. I put aside the bacon. (John Connett
john-c@gopher.ccbr.umn.edu)
No cab, no tuna nut on bacon.
No, Dan - I gave, man! Name vagina, "Don". (1)
No devil lived on.
No elate man I meet sees a bed... (11111 words) ...debase esteem in
a metal eon. (Jeff Grant 1979)
Noel, let's egg Estelle on. (11)
No evil I did I live on. (Joseph MacLean joseph@jambone.com)
No garden, one dragon. (7)
No, I tan or fan it, Al: LATIN AFRO NATION. (1)
No, it is open on one Position.
No, it never propagates if I set a GAP or PREVENTION.
No, it's a bar of gold, a bad log for a bastion!
(Alexander cried Hephaestion, 10)
No lava was I ere I saw Avalon. (3)
No miss, it is Simon. (15)
No, nay! Nat is too bossy, as I say, "Go! Be off for a fat salami!"
Aloof, at lovers I had named I stare. Here smegma is food, a kimono
is secret sin. I misled a ticklish sultan at lush silk citadels I
minister. Cession, O Mikado, of Siam Gems ere he rats, I demand!
Ah - is revolt a fool aim? (A last, a far-off foe - bogy as I -
says so.) Boots it any anon? (2)
Nora, a raft! Is it far, Aaron?
Nora, by my Llano, I to mellific Ida toss drowsy astral-age roses.
Ava, put up a vase so regal. (Art says words Sotadic I fill
emotionally, my baron.) (13)
Norah's moods, alas, doom Sharon. (11)
Nor I nor Emma had level'd a hammer on iron.
No, Sir, prefer prison.
No sot nor Ottawa law at Toronto, son!
(A stern Canadian parent, 10)
Not a ton (5)
Note B - go flee eel; fog, be ton! (1)
No witness--a fool. A nasal aria's time emits air. Alas, an aloof
assent: I won.
No wonder tender Eve felt so... Pallas -- reified, now deified --
won deifiers all apostle fevered, net red), now on.
Now's evil for evil? Ah, a liver of lives won!
Now stop, major-general, are negro jam-pots won?
(A nephew to his soldier-uncle, 10)
No "x" in "Nixon"?
Nurses run.
Oh, wet Alex - a jar, a fag! Up, disk, curve by! Man Oz, Iraq, Arizona,
my Bev? Ruck's id-pug - a far Ajax - elate? Who? (Ein
pangrammatisches Palindrom, 13)
Oh, who was it I saw? Oh, who?
On a clover, if alive, erupts a vast, pure evil; a fire volcano.
On den nuts I saw. Was I stunned? No.
Oolong, no loo!
O, so I do - Odioso. (Jonathan Swift)
O tarts! A castrato!
Oy! Oy! Emit S.O.S. time, yo-yo! (6)
Panda cron. my hymen, orc! Ad: "nap". (7)
Parcel bare ferret up mock computer-referable crap.
Park ages ago, toga Sega krap! (1)
Party-trap
Past ape page? Gac! Cage: Gape, past sap! (1)
Pastel lug? Na, Pa! I elf Leia pan; GULLET SAP! (1)
"Peanuts' Legs" is Gels' Tuna EP.
Play Burton: I not rub... yalp! (1)
Plug gum! Yo, boy! Mug gulp! (1)
Plum was I ere I saw mulp.
Poll: Inert Nectar Rat - "Centre Nil Lop". (1)
Pop Li, give we tix, o boy! Drat! Suck calf! Ma, Jan, Inez -- odd?
Ah! Iraq, Ari, had dozen in a jam! Flack custard? Yo! Box it:
Ewe vigil, pop! (rsholmes@hydra.syr.EDU Rich Holmes)
The narrator is speaking to his oriental father, named Li, who's
got tickets for a Roberta Flack concert. Li's refusal to hand over
these tickets earns him some odd epithets before our narrator turns
to Aristotle Onassis to question the assertion that his mother and
his sisters Janet and Inez are eccentric. Explaining that Saddam
Hussein has arrested 12 foreigners, he suddenly realizes that a
dessert that had been given away free with the Roberta Flack
tickets might be a good thing to package up and sell to shepherds.
Pot? No! I saw DNA and was I on top!
Pot no part. Ask Sam to grade Kaffir,... (1701 words) ...if faked
argot masks a trap on top. (Edward Benbow, 1975)
Pull up, Eva! We're here! Wave! Pull up!
Rail set? I? No, benign is such cussing in ebonite's liar. (18)
Ramona is reposed in a nide so Persian, Omar. (13)
"Red?" "No." "Who is it?" "'Tis I." "Oh, wonder!"
Red robber gazes not on S.E. Zagreb border. (16)
Red rum did emit revel ere Lever time did murder. (10)
Reign at Suez, Zeus! Tangier! (16)
Repaid diaper (3)
Rep! Pus Hola, German Nam, regal... Oh! Supper? (1)
Revel? No! Lock colon? Lever! (1)
Revenge, Bill? I won! Will I beg? Never. (18)
"Revolt, Capitano? No! I tag it: 'Sacred Rose of Red'."
"No! We talk lawsuit. No petal, I presume, rips a dogma."
"I deliver storied, sung, Astral Aid. O, profit on droll anger?
Regnal Lord, not I! For podial arts Agnus Dei rots. Reviled I am,
God." (Aspire muser! Pilate, Pontius, walk late - wonder!...)
"Foes order castigation! On a tip act, Lover!" (13)
Revolve, Bev, Lover... (18)
RE: Wolf -- Laminar Animal (Flower?) (6)
Risk same rut: A rep. met Baltimore zoo team.
Mae Too: Zero M.I.T. lab temperature masks IR
Rot can rob a born actor.
Rot-cod, doctor! (3)
Sage Moral: Let's ban scrotum smut; Orcs nab stellar omegas! (1)
Sal, a late petal up in a mill I manipulate - petal alas! (13)
Sam, a Jap, laminates set animal pajamas.
Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas. (Soundgarden album)
Saw was saw was a saw was saw was. (and so on)
Semi limes.
Set at serif, as Safire states.
Set, set trap! Gel trap! Part leg; part testes? (1)
Sex! Ah, serfs... fresh axes. (7)
Shark, ay? Crane hog go hen arc yak "Rahs". (1)
Sign a roost! so orang is.
Sine polyp sag, gas pylo' penis. (1)
"Sine-polyp-pepto-rot", madam? Rip at tapir, madam. To ro peppy? lo'
penis! (1)
Sin? Net slam, sir, is Mal's tennis.
Sis is Isis.
Sis is Isis is Isis. (and so on)
Si! Semen? Ogre gas? Mute Tums;`A.G.: Ergo - Nemesis. (1)
Slain Edward's hoop saved a boot. Too bad! Eva's "poohs" draw denials.
(11)
Slip pils (3)
Smug God! Not surrEAl lore! Whose ogled oyster frets' yodel goes, "Oh!
We roll EAr rust on dog gums!" (David Moser)
Snug & raw was I ere I saw war & guns. (10 / 14)
Snug senile Heresiologist, farce! Be xerus-nosed, aha! (Hades! On sure
xebec-rafts I go, Lois, ere he lines guns!) (13)
So, John is in Ho-Jo's. (Howard Johnson)
Some memos
Spare me raps (5)
Spot's tie - it's tops! (5)
Stab, mow, knife de fink wombats! (13)
Star? Come Donna Melba, I'm an amiable man, no Democrats!
Star god a dog, rats! (Robert Strauss)
Star Wars awe was raw rats.
Stiff, O dairy-man, in a myriad of fits! (A milksop, jilted by his
lass, 10)
Stop, Syrian, I start at rats in airy spots.
(A timid creature, fearing rodents, 10)
Stratagem off, O Yale dude; lay off Omega tarts.
Stragety: get arts! (Ausstellungstitel von Andre Thomkins, Edinburgh
1970)
Suburb - or "sus" - eh... rhesus rob, rub us. (1)
Suez, sides reversed, is Zeus.
"Su Pot" cosine prime: Emir "Penis-Octopus" (1)
Suppository rot; I sop pus.
Ted, I beg, am I not ever a venom? - Mon Eva rêve ton image, bidet!
[Editor: "r^ve" in the original] (Luc Etienne)
Ten? No bass orchestra tarts, eh? Cross a bonnet! (15)
"Tenor Octopus Night" netted a cadet tenth ginsu pot, coronet.
Tessa's in Italy, Latin is asset. (15)
Tide-net safe, soon, Allin. A manilla noose fastened it. (15)
'till... if I slap A.P. Papals, I fill it? (1)
TIME ITEM METI EMIT (10)
Time, sides reversed, is emit
Tim, lack cats? Drab bards? Stack calm; it! (1)
Tini saw drawer, a reward was in it. Taem, no Devil lived on meat.
T.I. nob berets? Yo, pal! Slap oyster ebb on it! (1)
Tip Allison Butler! Orel tub, no sill, a pit.
'Tis Ivan, on a visit.
Tivoli - I lov' it! (Werbeslogan einer holländischen Zigarettenfirma)
"Tiz O" plaid I am, Ma, I'd... I alpo zit. (1)
To: Dr., et al. / Re: Grub / Ma had a hamburger / Later, Dot.
To Id: If I, an emoter, cannot fight or fall, or, frustrated, I bay
and do sit - 'tis odd. Nay! Abide, tart surf! Roll a froth gift on
nacre to me - Naif idiot. (13)
To Jay Leno: Lonely? A jot ... (Bob Rosenberg)
To labor burglar of oral grub, rob a lot.
To last, Carter retracts a lot.
To nets, ah, no, son, haste not. (15)
Tonka deity-baby tied a knot. (Rvance@nc5.infi.net)
Tons o' snot. (5)
Tons o' so - greece elf fleece ergos o' snot. (1)
Too far away, no mere clay or royal ceremony, a war afoot. (15)
Too far, Edna, we wander afoot. (15)
Too hot to hoot (Titel eines Kinderbuchs von Raymond Stuart, New York
1977)
PALINDROMIC CONVERSATION BETWEEN TWO OWLS (by George Marvill)
"Too hot to hoot!"
"Too hot to woo!"
"Too wot?"
"Too hot to hoot!"
"To woo!"
"Too wot?"
"To hoot! Too hot to hoot!"
Top step - Sara's pet spot. (15)
Total autumn, is it not? On 'tis in mutual: a tot. (18)
Tracy, no panic in a pony-cart. (15)
Trader saw a red underside Rossi, Tim it is so, red is red, nude, raw
as red art.
Trade talks irk Satan. Nat ask: Risk late dart?
Trades are erased art. (evilmike evilmike@ix.netcom.com)
Trams to naval lava (not smart). (6)
Trap a rat! stare, piper, at Star apart. (15)
Trash? Even interpret Nineveh's art. (10)
Tulsa: Go Lions! No! I Log A Slut! (1)
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe
Ebargtuo shtar emom eht dna
Sevogorob eht erew ysmim lla
Ebaw eht ni elbmig dna eryg did
Sevot yhtils eht dna ,gillirb sawt.
("Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There", by Lewis
Carroll)
Uncomfortable was I ere I saw Elba, Trofmocnu. (3)
Ungate me, Vic, I've met a gnu.
Unglad, I tar a tidal gnu. (12)
Vegetable was I ere I saw Elba, Tegev. (3)
"Warden in a Cap", Mac's pup scamp, a canine draw. (15)
War-distended nets I draw. (15)
Ward nurses run "draw". (15)
Was a saw.
Was it felt? I had a hit left, I saw. (15)
We freer few.
We'll let Dad tell Lew. (15)
We, so to get a mate, go to sew. (9)
Wet smug yams may gum stew. (Will Orton, gridlock@worton.picosof.com)
What an interesting name you have, Mr. Mevahuoyemangnitseretninatahw!
What! So he is hanged, is he? So what? (12)
WHO IS SISSI OHM
Wolf dog, hah, crib birch. Ah! God flow? (1)
Wolf's pal spots laminate wet animal, stops, laps flow. (Shirley Pepke)
Wonders in Italy: Latin is "red" now. (15)
Wo Nemo, pass a lasso to me now! (Dona Smith)
Won race, so loth to lose car now. (15)
Won't I repaper? Repaper it now. (15)
Wot? No smart trams on tow? (14)
Xerxes was stunned! Eden nuts saw sex, rex!
Yacht notes radar set on th' cay. (16)
Yaw! (A sleep apnoea.) A eon, Pa, peels away.
Yes, Mark, cable to hotel, "Back Ramsey". (15)
Yes, Syd, Owen saved Eva's new Odyssey. (15)
Yksnilomray!... Madam, I'm Adam Yarmolinsky. (3)
Yo, blood! Hots am! Madam mast? Oh, do, ol' boy! (1)
Yo bob, mug a gumbo boy!
Yo, brian! Nair boy! (5)
Young Sten nets gnu! Oy! (16)
Yreka Bakery (Yreka ist ein Ort in Kalifornien; Quelle: Martin Gardner)
Zeus was deified, saw Suez. (15)
-- Christoph Enzinger <leo@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
[ Editor: English items from Manfred Immler's second palindrome
summary for the LINGUIST List (June 1995) that are not already in this
entry. ]
From William Irvine's "Madam I'm Adam and other palindromes":
Egad! An adage!
From "An Almanac of Words at Play" by Willard Espy:
Do nine men interpret? Nine med, I nod.
This is a poem by J. A. Lindon where each line, and the title, is a
palindrome:
HA! ON, ON, O NOAH!
Eel-fodder, stack-cats red do flee,
Unglad, I tar a tidal gnu,
I tip away a wapiti,
Ewer of miry rim for ewe.
(It doesn't make a lot of sense, but it's reasonably grammatical.) But
better than that is the following poem, where not each line, but the
whole thing, not including the title (450 letters!) is a palindrome.
It was written by Howard W. Bergerson, and it makes surprising sense:
THE FADED BLOOMERS' RHAPSODY
Flee to me, remote elf --- Sal a dewan desired;
Now is a Late-Petal era.
We fade: lucid Iris, red Rose of Sharon;
Goldenrod a silly ram ate.
Wan olives teem (ah, Satan lives!);
A star eyes pale Roses.
Revel, big elf on a mayonnaise man ---
A tinsel baton-dragging nice elf too.
Lisp, oh sibyl, dragging Nola along;
Niggardly bishops I loot.
Fleecing niggard notables Nita names,
I annoy a Man of Legible Verse.
So relapse, ye rats,
As evil Natasha meets Evil
On a wet, amaryllis-adorned log.
Norah's foes' orders (I ridiculed a few) are late, Pet.
Alas, I wonder! Is Edna wed?
Alas --- flee to me, remote elf.
And the following is a mock interview with "Professor R. Osseforp,
holder of the Emor D. Nilap Chair in Palindromology at Harvard", where
the answer to each question is a palindrome:
"And what about your new novel, could you tell me the title?"
"Dennis Sinned."
"Intriguing. What is the plot?"
"Dennis and Edna sinned."
"I see. Is there more to it than that?"
"Dennis Krats and Edna Stark sinned."
"Now it all becomes clear. Tell me, what kind of car are you driving
nowadays?"
"A Toyota."
"Naturally. And how about your colleague, Prof. Nustad?"
"Nustad? A Datsun."
"And his wife May?"
"Aha! May? A Yamaha!"
-- Dave Kathman <djk1@midway.uchicago.edu>
[ Editor: from the "f-m" part of Christoph Enzinger's collection of
palindromes (Christoph Enzinger <leo@cosy.sbg.ac.at>, Salzburg).
Only items not already given above are included; one item listed
twice in the collection is given once. The numbers in parentheses
are Enzinger's source references; their key is not in the collected
copy. ]
Fart, R.A.F!
First, let me explain that I'm cursed.
I'm a poet whose time gets reversed.
Reversed gets time, whose poet a I'm,
Cursed I'm that explain me let first.
Flack; Lessen - dwell, Ana, on no anal lewdness, elk, calf. (1)
Flee to me, remote elf. (2)
Flee to me, remote elf --- Sal a dewan desired;
Now is a Late-Petal era.
We fade: lucid Iris, red Rose of Sharon;
Goldenrod a silly ram ate.
Wan olives teem (ah, Satan lives!);
A star eyes pale Roses.
Revel, big elf on a mayonnaise man ---
A tinsel baton-dragging nice elf too.
Lisp, oh sibyl, dragging Nola along;
Niggardly bishops I loot.
Fleecing niggard notables Nita names,
I annoy a Man of Legible Verse.
So relapse, ye rats,
As evil Natasha meets Evil
On a wet, amaryllis-adorned log.
Norah's foes' orders (I ridiculed a few) are late, Pet.
Alas, I wonder! Is Edna wed?
Alas --- flee to me, remote elf.
("THE FADED BLOOMERS' RHAPSODY", 2)
Flee zoo ooze elf! (6)
Flesh! Saw I Mimi wash self!
Fool A: Mad as Sadam; aloof. (6)
Fool a pale zoo ooze; lap aloof? (7)
Gateman sees name, garageman sees name tag. (15)
Gert, I saw Ron avoid a radio-van - or was it Reg?
Ghandi as embroidery? "Red, I Orb Me", said Nahg. (1)
Gnu dung. (8)
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog! (15)
God, a slap! Paris, sir, appals a dog.
God dam leg spam? Toot! Maps' gel Mad Dog. (1)
Goddam mad dog!
God damn! Mad dog.
Goddam mad dog gnaws wang! Goddam mad dog!
God damn! I - evil asserts - impugn a bastion of rabies use. I barf!
O, no, it's a bang-up mistress, alive in Maddog!
God: Deified dog.
Goddesses so pay a possessed dog. (15)
God, Edam made dog.
Go! Desire vagina! Man I gave. Rise, dog.
God lived as a devil dog.
God Lived on No Devil Dog.
God! Nate bit a Tibetan dog!
"Go, droop aloof", sides reversed, is "fool a poor dog". (15)
Go hang a salami! I'm a lasagna hog!
Goldenrod-adorned log
Golden yak ore poop, er, okay? Ned, log! (1)
Good day, Madam, I'm Adam Yaddoog. (3)
Gorf: A nomad; a dam on a frog... (1)
Green orate! tar one erg!
Greta? Education? No, it a cud eater, G.
Grow pill egg - "el lip worg" (1)
Gulp plug (3)
Gustav Klimt milk vats - ug! (8)
Ha! Agnes night? I'd eagle! Helga, Edith, ginseng? Aah... (18)
Had lost care: Pus supper acts old... ah!
Hail Eris & Sir Eliah!
Ha! I rush to my lion oily moths, Uriah! (15)
HA! ON, ON, O NOAH!
Eel-fodder, stack-cats red do flee,
Unglad, I tar a tidal gnu,
I tip away a wapiti,
Ewer of miry rim for ewe. (12)
Harasoo, Sarah!
Harass sensuousness, Sarah. (15)
Hare-Vile Lip-Anita's spine, he nips; sat in a pile, liver... ah! (1)
Ha! Robed Selim smiles, Deborah! (15)
He did, eh?
Hell! A spacecraft farce caps all, eh? (15)
Help Max, Enid, in Example "H". (11 / 15)
Help! Pine "gac"! Cage nipple "H"! (1)
He maps spam, eh?
Here so long? No loser, eh? (15)
He's won ken of ill etiology; named a mere hoot, and no stats on DNA,
too. Here made many go, "Lo!, I tell if one knows, eh?"
Hot tuba. Put it up a butt, oh.
Howdy, Madam, I'm Adam Y. Dwoh. (3)
How? Orc Napalm, ah! Ham LA pan crow! Oh! (1)
Htims, Madam, I'm Adam Smith. (3)
I am Al Leg Dew! Wedge llama; I! (1)
Ian or a rock? Say! Ask Cora Ronai! (Richard G. Smith)
I did not revert on didi.
I'd nah go, am, ta ham: "Muhatma O'Ghandi!" (1)
I, doped, am powder, red "wop" made pod I. (1)
I draw Otto, not Alps! Plato not toward I! (1)
If I had a hi-fi...
I, madam, I made radio. So I dared! Am I mad? Am I? (Marconi)
I made border bard's drowsy swords; drab, red-robed am I. (15)
I maim Miami.
I maim nine men in Saginaw; wan, I gas nine men in Miami. (11 / 15)
I maim nine more hero-men in Miami. (15)
I make Emperor E.T.'s nominee ten into borg robot nineteen. I
monster, o rep? Meek am I!
I'm, alas, a salami.
I, Marian, I too fall; a foot-in-air am I. (15)
I, Mary, tramp martyr. Am I?
I moan, "Live on, O evil Naomi!" (11 / 15)
I'm runnin'! - Nurmi.
In airy Sahara's level, Sarah, a Syrian, I. (15)
IN ARTS IT IS REPOSE TO LIFE - E'FILO TESO PER SITI STRANI.
I, Rasputin, knit up Sari.
I saw a lone Bigot live. Live now shall a hoar bedside idyll. A cigar
to senile fatso? Lemon, Amoret? Aloe, cruel bailiff? A nun, Adine,
I saw alone. Bigot, live - live now! (Shall a hoar bedside idyll?)
A cigar to satinet, aloe-cruel bailiff - Anubis! Naomi, stark
rabid, I bark "Rats!" I moan, Sib! Unaffiliable urceolate Nita so
tragically died! Is Debra (Oh Allah's won!) evil - evil to gibe,
Nola? Was I, Enid? An unaffiliable urceolate Roman (O me!) Lost
a feline, so - tragically died! Is Debra (Oh Allah's won!) evil - evil
to gibe? Nola, was I? ("Elegy on the Death of Sister Nita and her
cat, Bigot", 13)
I saw I was I.
I saw thee, madame, eh? 'Twas I. (15)
Is Don Adams mad? (A nod.) Si!
I tan, I mull, I live on no evil illuminati.
I tip away a wapiti. (12)
I wank in Niknawi?
I, zany Nazi. (8)
Jar a tonga, nag not a raj.
Kayak salad - Alaska yak. (8)
Kayla! Al Yak! (1)
K cab back. (14)
KC, answer DNA loop award. Emit time. Draw a Pool. Andrew, snack"
K.C. is Llama Mall sick. (6)
Key lime, emily? ek! (5)
King, are you glad you are king? (12)
K.L. at Sun got EMACS, so boss came to GNU's talk.
Knob red, no wonder! Bonk. (6)
Lad! Ray's mop; mop a pom-pom's yard, Al! (1)
Lager, never even regal. (6)
Laminated E.T. animal. (8)
Lana C. LaDaug was I ere I saw Guadalcanal. (3)
Lana! I saw supple (help!)
Pus! Was I anal? (1)
Lap drow llama, mall word pal (1)
Lass! Borden: "TI milk limit." - Ned robs sal. (7)
Lattimer asks a remittal, Eva. Histolytic city lots I have; Lattimer
asks a remittal. (13)
Lay a wallaby baby ball away, Al. (8)
Let O'Hara gain an inn in a niagara hotel.
Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel. (John Taylor, 1614)
Liam dams mad mail.
Lid of fade, metallic soot, emit Garret-simple, help mister ragtime to
oscillate me, daffodil.
Lion, O Puma, I am upon oil. (18)
Lisa Bonet ate no basil.
Live Devo -- love devil. (6)
Lived on Decaf, Faced no Devil.
Live forever of evil.
Live not on evil.
Live, O Devil, revel ever, live, do evil. (12)
Live on evasions? No, I save no evil.
Live tar, Zeus - must sum Suez rat... evil! (1)
Llewopnotyalc, Madam, I'm Adam Clayton Powell. (3)
Llul sagas lull. (16)
Loofahs in aviolin! In a gap in my hymn, I - Paganini! - lo, I vanish,
a fool!
Loofahs in a violin in a gap; I Paganini; lo, I vanish, a fool.
Made zoo, Ma! O'Felt tips! Spittle foam - ooze dam. (1)
Ma handed Edna ham.
Ma, I so resign.
It's all a poet air.
Ben is, I see, so Greek.
In sly dissent I wore no gay ruff.
O see by a brae his nag roll or yaw?
Awol laws (as are every god's)
are a dire rod.
"Aye, fade with gin - O, too wispily,
Sordid rosy lips I woo.
(Tonight I wed a fey adorer, Ida.)
Eras do gyre - veer as a swallow away.
Roll, organs I hear! Bay, bees of fury ago!
Nero, witness idyls Nike ergo sees!
Is inebriate Opal lasting? Is Eros?
I am!"
("IDA BY THE WINDOW", 2)
Macro frog irks - I risk rigor for cam.
Made rot laggard yoda - a doy, drag gal to red Am. (1)
Maharajah. Ha! Jar a ham.
Major Camaro? or a macro jam?
Mal lime; 'em, ill, am. (1)
Man, Eve let an irate tar in at eleven a.m.
Man, Oprah's sharp on A.M.
Mapsburg, Denmark? Kram Ned; grub Spam. (1)
Marge, let dam dogs in. Am on satire: Vow I am Cain, am on spot, am a
Jap sniper. Red, raw murder on G.I.! Ignore drum. (Warder repins
Pajama tops.)
No maniac, ma! Iwo veritas: No man is god. - Mad Telegram. (3)
"Massa! Snakes-on-Buns Embargo!" "O grab me Snub-nose Kansas Sam!"
Master, rut? Tug at ad, "Data-Gut-Turret", Sam? (1)
May a banana nab a yam.
Ma! Yeti keg, dew madam, wedge kite, yam! (1)
Mayhem, eh Yam?
Me (Know? Wonk 'em!) (6)
Mel's elk cusses age-rut in ruffled elf furniture; gases, suckles Lem.
(John Connett john-c@gopher.ccbr.umn.edu)
Minor Camaro? or a macro nim?
Mired Albania in a blade rim. (18)
"Miry rim! So many daffodils," Delia wailed, "slid off a dynamo's miry
rim!" (12)
"M" lab menial slain: embalm.
MOM IS 51 WOW (Bob Strauss)
Moo, lost elk, O orbs amid wonders awed! Was it organic, in ecstasy
tied, Deity sat scenic in a gro? I saw dew as red - now dim as
booklet - so loom. (13)
Mr. Owl ate my metal worm. (Derek D. Miller)
Mug Ret's; Yoda, melt Ron's snortle mad oyster gum! (1)
My baby on one: E.! No, no! Y? Baby M.!
[ Editor: from a Web page "General Palindromes" (mid-1990s), an
alphabetical list of 487 palindromes, "single words to whole
sentences". Those already in the entry above are omitted; the rest
are given in the page's order, without its numbering. Entries marked
"not letter-perfect" do not read the same backwards letter for letter
as given. ]
A.
A but of stressed desserts fo' tuba.
A car, a man, a maraca.
A dank, sad nap. Eels sleep and ask nada.
A fine snore, rare Ronsen IFA.
A Fool, A Tool, A Pool; LOOPALOOTALOOFA!
A maj, a plan, a canal, pajama.
A man, a pain, a mania, Panama.
A man, a plan, an anal panama.
A peg at lovely Tsar - a style voltage, pa.
A relic, Odin. I'm a mini, docile Ra.
A Santa at NASA.
A Santa deified at NASA.
A Santa dog lived as a devil god at NASA.
A Santa lived as a devil at NASA.
A Santa lives evil at NASA.
A Santa pets rats, as Pat taps a star step at NASA.
A Santa snaps pans at NASA.
A Santa snips pins at NASA.
A Santa spat taps at NASA.
A Santa spit taboo bat tips at NASA.
A Santa spits tips at NASA.
A Santa spots tops at NASA.
A Santa stops pots at NASA.
A Santa taps Pat at NASA.
A Santa's rats top Nat, as Satan pots tars at NASA.
A tin mug for a jar of gum, Nita.
A Toyota. Race fast, safe car. A Toyota
Age, irony, Noriega.
Ah, Satan sees Natasha.
Aha!
Aibohphobia. (fear of palindromes)
Alan Alda stops racecar, spots ad: "Lana-L.A."
Amaryllis sillyrama.
An Elena call: "Eek! I let a rapper named 'DeMan Reppa' rate like
Ella." Can Elena?
And we saw a Jawa sew DNA.
Animal loots foliated detail of stool lamina.
Are we not drawn onward to new era?
Barge in. Relate mere war of 1991 for a were-metal Ernie grab.
Bel Paese a pleb.
Bib.
Bird rib.
Bob, Level Bob.
Bombard a drab mob.
Bonk. One Mac. Newton sees not wen came (no knob).
Boob
Bush saw Sununu swash sub.
But sad Eva saved a stub.
Cain: A maniac.
Caibohphobiac. (Someone afraid of palindromes)
Campus motto: Bottoms up, Mac.
Camus sees sumac.
Civic.
Dad.
Dan on ad.
Daedalus: nine, Peninsula: dead.
Dairy myriad.
Dammit, I'm Mad.
Damn. I, Agassi, miss again. Mad.
Deified.
Deirdre wets altar of St. Simons - no mists, for at last ewer dried.
Delia and Edna ailed
Della C., Bob called.
Denim axes examined.
Depardieu, go razz a rogue I draped.
Desserts I stressed.
Detartrated.
Devo met a Mr., eh, DNA and her mate moved.
Di as dad said.
Dior droid.
DNA-land.
Do good? I? No. Evil anon I deliver. I maim nine more hero-men in
Saginaw, sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I. Lo! Rack, cut a drowsy rat
in Aswan. I gas nine more hero-men in Miami. Reviled, I (Nona) live
on. I do, O God.
"Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men," I nod.
Do not start at rats to nod.
Doc, note I dissent a fatness. I diet on cod.
Dogma? I am God.
Don't nod.
Drab as a fool, aloof as a bard.
Drab bard.
Drat Sadat, a dastard.
Drat Saddam, a mad dastard.
Draw putrid dirt upward.
Dud.
Dumb mobs bomb mud.
Dumb mud.
E. Borgnine drags Dad's gardening robe.
Ed, I saw Harpo Marx ram Oprah W. aside.
Eda Nomel's lemonade.
Eel, urbane hen a brulee.
Egad, no bondage.
Eh, consider: red is noche.
Embargos are macabre. Sad Nell, listen O, not to no nets. I'll lend a
Serb a camera, so grab me.
Emil peed deep lime.
Emit a mile, lima time.
Emit Eno one time.
Emit no tot on time.
Emu fat sap pasta fume.
Emu fume.
Eno misses ordered roses, Simone.
Eno, rehtori. A fair other one.
Enola Devil lived alone.
Er, go on, trap Steven in, I say. Me oh my. Nor can an "air" bee sew.
We see, Brian. An acronym? Hoe my asinine vet's part? No, ogre.
Eva can ignite virtuosos out riveting in a cave.
Eva, can I stab bats in a cave?
Evade me, Dave.
Evil olive.
Fart, R.A.F.
Feds parry [Editor: "pary" in the original] trams as martyr raps. Def!
Feeble, el beef.
Flee to me, remote elf.
Flesh, saw I Mimi wash self.
Fool aloof.
Gateman sees name, garageman sees name tag.
Gert, I saw Ron avoid a radio-van, or was it Reg?
Gift fig.
Gnu dung.
Go Damian amid salad. Alas, dim Ana, I am a dog.
[ Editor: not letter-perfect. ]
Go hang a salami, doc. Note: I dissent, a fast never prevents a
fatness. I diet on cod, I'm a lasagna hog.
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog.
Go, desire vagina. Man I gave. Rise, dog.
God damn mad dog.
God lived as a devil dog.
God lived on no devil dog.
God save Eva's dog.
God to Hanoi on a hot dog.
God, a red nugget. A fat egg under a dog.
God, a slap. Paris, sir, appals a dog.
God, Edam made dog.
Gold log.
Goldenrod-adorned log.
Greta? Education? No, it a cud eater, G.
Guns 'n' robes, a base born snug.
Gustav Klimt milk vats - ug.
Harasoo, Sarah.
Harass sensuousness, Sarah.
He did, eh?
He maps spam, eh?
How? O, he boinks. Ask Niobe how. Oh.
I.
I am A.I.
I did not revert on Didi.
I did, did I?
I, lad Dali.
I led deli.
I madam, I made radio! So I dared. Am I mad? Am I?
I maim Miami.
I saw a gif. Fig. A was I.
I yam, fun 'nuf. May I?
I'm a lasagna, hang a salami.
I'm a lass, a salad, new end alas as salami.
I'm runnin', Nurmi.
I'm, alas, a salami.
I, Mary, tramp martyr. Am I?
I, Rasputin, knit up Sari.
I, zany Nazi.
If I had a hi-fi.
Is Don Adams mad? (A nod.) Si.
Is sensuousness I?
Jar a tonga, nag not a raj.
Kayak salad, Alaska yak.
Kayak.
KC, answer DNA loop award. Emit time. Draw a pool. Andrew, snack.
Kinnikkinnik. (a dried leaf and bark mixture smoked by Cree indians)
Kodak ad, OK.
Laminated E.T. animal.
Late? Bill is ill. I bet, Al.
Lay a wallaby baby ball away, Al.
Let O'Hara gain an inn in a niagara hotel.
Lew, Otto has a hot towel.
Lid of fade, metallic soot, emit Garret-simple, help mister ragtime
to oscillate me, daffodil.
Lisa Bonet ate no basil.
Live not on evil, madam, live not on evil.
Live not on evil.
Lived on Decaf, Faced no Devil.
Llewopnotyalc, Madam, I'm Adam Clayton Powell.
"M" lab menial slain: embalm.
Ma, I say. Lee's as eely as I am.
Mad dastard, a sad rat - Saddam.
Madam.
Malayalam. (language of the Malayali people in southern India)
Mam'.
Man, Eve let an irate tar in at eleven a.m.
Man, Oprah's sharp on A.M.
Marge, let dam dogs in. Am on satire! Vow I am Cain. Am on spot. Am a
Jap sniper. Red, raw murder on GI. Ignore drum. (Warner rips pajama
tops.) No maniac, Ma! Iwo veritas: no man is God - Mad telegram.
[ Editor: not letter-perfect. ]
May it name 'em anti-yam?
Mayhem, eh Yam?
Meg, am I naive? No, yaw a kayak away on Evian. I'm a gem.
Miry rim. So many daffodils slid off a dynamo's miry rim.
"Miry rim. So many daffodils," Delia wailed, "slid off a dynamo's
miry rim."
Mo spell it so that lovers revolt. Ah to still Epsom.
Model truth: turtledom.
Mom
Mr. Owl Ate My Metal Worm.
N.A. medico: Negro Jamaica? A CIA major genocide, man.
Nail, ligature, rut. A Gillian?
Nam was a saw man.
Navy van.
Ned, go gag Ogden.
Ned's Den
Neil A. sees alien.
Neil, an alien.
No cab, no tuna nut on bacon.
No cabs' bulbs? A gnat's tool loots Tan "Gas" Blub's bacon.
No, it can, as it is, it is a war. Raw as it is, it is an action.
No, it is open on one position.
No, Mel Gibson is a casino's big lemon.
No misses ordered roses, Simon.
No pet so tragic as a cigar to step on.
No side, no in union, Edison.
No, son! Onanism's a gross orgasm sin -- a no-no, son.
No stetson.
No stetson hats. Operas are post. Ah, no stetson.
No witness, a fool. A nasal aria's time emits air. Alas, an aloof
assent: I won.
Nog eroded Oregon.
Nora, a raft! Is it far, Aaron?
Noriega can idle, held in a cage, iron.
Nosegay ages on.
Not lads simple, help Miss Dalton.
Not New York, Roy went on.
Note: nine Devo-organists in a groove den in Eaton.
[ Editor: not letter-perfect. ]
Now's evil for evil? Ah, a liver of lives won.
Nurses run.
O Bobo! Get Indy clear! He'd render a red nerd eh? Ra! El Cid nite!
Go Bobo! [ Editor: not letter-perfect. ]
O, geronimo, no minor ego.
O, I dare not tone radio.
O.E.D. or rodeo?
Ogre, flog a golfer. Go.
Oh, no! Don Ho.
Olli'd accept a fat peccadillo.
On a clover, if alive, erupts a vast, pure evil, a fire volcano.
Otto did bob did otto.
Otto saw pup, pup was Otto.
Oy, Oy, a tonsil is not a yo-yo.
Paganini: Din in A Gap.
Panda had nap.
Parcel bare ferret up mock computer-referable crap.
Parkay yak rap.
Party boobytrap.
Party-trap.
"Peanuts' Legs" is Gels' Tuna EP.
Pint a' Catnip.
Plan no damn Madonna LP.
Poor Dan is in a droop.
Poor Das is a droop.
Poop.
Pop.
Pope pop.
Puff up.
Pus, Dan, Ogre sales use laser gonads up.
Racecar.
Race fast, safe car.
Radar.
Rae, bite yon no yeti bear.
Rail lair. [ Editor: not letter-perfect. ]
Rat-star.
Rats ailed, damn it, in mad Delia's tar.
Raw sexes war.
Raw, evil dam on Niagara. Gain net time. Sub bus, emit ten Niagara.
Gain no mad, live war.
Re-paper.
Redivider.
Red lost case, Ma. Jesse James acts older.
Red Nevada vendor. [ Editor: not letter-perfect. ]
Red? No. Who is it? 'Tis I. Oh, wonder!
Redivider.
Reflog a golfer.
"Regal as tide" Kramer remarked. "It's a lager."
Reg, Its sarcastic. Its a crass tiger.
Remarkable was I ere I saw Elba Kramer.
Reno loner.
Reviled did I live, said I, as evil I did deliver.
Reward animals, O Greg, ergo slam in a drawer.
Rise, sir lapdog. Revolt, lover God, pal, rise, sir.
Rise, take lame female Kate, sir.
Rob a loneliness? Senile, no labor.
Rococo "R".
Rotavator.
Rot can rob a born actor.
Rot-corpse Sumatran art amuses proctor.
Rotavator.
Roti de pup editor.
Roy, am I mayor?
Rub bur.
Sad, I'm Midas.
Sardi puts nog on stupid RA's.
Saw tide rose? So red it was.
Sees.
Self-furnace Pecan ruffles.
Set at serif, as Safire states.
Sex-aware era waxes.
Sexes.
Sh, Tom sees moths.
Sir, I soon saw Bob was no Osiris.
Sis.
Sis, ask Costner to not rent socks "as is".
Sis, Sargasso moss a grass is.
Sniff'um muffins.
Snug & raw was I ere I saw war & guns.
Snug all L.A. guns.
So many dynamos.
So, G. Rivera's tots are virgos.
So, Ida, adios.
Solo gigolos.
Solos.
Sore eye, Eros?
Sore was I ere I saw Eros.
S.O.S.
Splat, I hit Alps.
Stab nail at ill Italian bats.
Star comedy by Democrats.
Star Wars awe was raw rats.
Star-red rum and Edna murder rats.
Star? Come Donna Melba, I'm an amiable man, no Democrats.
Stella won no wallets.
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots.
Strap on no parts.
Stratagem: megatarts.
Straw warts.
Stunts is. Niece insist nuts.
Suneva, Nina is sure Russian in a Venus.
Suppository rot, I sop pus.
Sworn I sit, 'tis in rows.
T. Eliot nixes sex in toilet.
Tangy gnat.
Tarzan raised Desi Arnaz' rat.
Tense, I snap Sharon roses, or Norah's pansies net.
The almanac can am laeht.
Timid, I'm it.
Tini saw drawer, a reward was in it. Taem, no Devil lived on meat.
[ Editor: not letter-perfect. ]
'Tis Ivan on a visit.
To Idi Amin: I'm a idiot.
To last, Carter retracts a lot.
To Dr., et al. Re: Grub. Ma had a hamburger. Later, Dot.
Toni Tennille fell in net. I, not.
Tons o' snot.
Too bad, I hid a boot.
Too hot to hoot.
Trade bad DA bed art.
Trafalgar rag: La Fart.
Trays simple help, missy art.
Tulsa night life: filth, gin, a slut.
Tuna nut.
UFO tofu.
Vanna, wanna V?
Viva le te de Tel Aviv.
Vote to not slip up, refer pupils to note TOV.
Warsaw was raw.
Was it a bar or a bat I saw?
Was it a bat I saw?
Was it a cat I saw?
Was raw tap ale not a reviver at one lap at Warsaw?
We few.
We panic in a pew.
We seven, Eve, sew.
Wet rare paper art, ew!
Wo Nemo, toss a lasso to me now.
Woman maps yam snot and DNA. Tons may spam Nam. Ow!
Won't cat lovers revolt? Act now!
Wonder if Sununu's fired now.
Wontons? Not now.
Xerxes was stunned. Eden nuts saw sex, rex.
Yaw. A sleep apnoea. A eon, Pa, peels away.
Yawn. Madonna fan? No damn way.
Yell upset a cider, predicates pulley.
Yo bob, mug a gumbo boy.
Yo! Banana Boy.
Yo! Bottoms up, U.S. Motto, boy.
Yo! job mug gumbo joy.
Yo, oy.
You buoy.
Young Ada had a gnu. Oy!
Zeus was deified, saw Suez.
[ Editor: from a summary of palindromes sent in response to a request
by John Jensen <jejensen@ccs.carleton.ca>, misc.misc and misc.writing,
December 1992. Only palindromes not already in this entry are given;
close variants of ones already here are left out. ]
Tarzan raised a Desi Arnaz rat.
Tarzan raised Desi Arnaz' rat.
If I had a hi-fi
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, hero's, rajahs, a coloratura,
maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan,
a tag, a banana bag again, or: a camel, a crepe, pins, spam,
a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal, Panama!
Here is some information about a few palindromes related to the one
you mention. As far as I know, the first person to put a cat in the
canal was Jim Saxe, in his 9 October 1983 plan file.
A man, a plan, a cat, a canal; Panama?
Guy Jacobson added several items later that year.
A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal--Panama!
Guy's palindrome appears on page 127 of COMMON LISP, THE LANGUAGE
(page 170 of the 2nd edition). The 2nd edition of COMMON LISP, THE
LANGUAGE also contains the remarkable:
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps,
snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a
banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo,
cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal--Panama!
which is presumably the work of Guy Steele, the book's author.
I dredged up the problem in 1984, and discovered the following 540-word
version with the help of a computer program that I wrote.
[ Editor: Dan Hoey's 540-word palindrome, already given above, is
omitted here. ]
This was done with the Unix spelling dictionary and a fairly
simple-minded program. With a better word list and a smarter program
I'm sure the palindrome could be ten times as long.
I am somewhat concerned that people have been redistributing these
palindromes without attribution. Please don't do so. And if you get
a copy of my palindrome without my name on it, I would appreciate it
if you mention my objection to whoever sends it to you.
-- Dan Hoey <Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil>
A Toyota! Race fast, safe car. A Toyota
A fine snore, rare Ronsen IFA.
Aha!
Oh, no! Don Ho!
Bonk! One Mac. Newton sees not wen came (no knob).
Lisa Bonet ate no basil.
Toni Tennille fell in net. I, not!
Vanna, wanna V?
Man, Oprah's sharp on A.M.
Damn! I, Agassi, miss again! Mad!
(... Yawn.) Madonna Fan? No damn way!
E. Borgnine drags Dad's gardening robe.
Neil A. sees alien!
The almanac can am laeth
I'm runnin'! - Nurmi
A man, a plan, a canal...Suez!
Is Don Adams mad? (A nod.) Si!
No, Mel Gibson is a casino's big lemon.
Alan Alda stops racecar, spots ad: "Lana-L.A."
Bush saw Sununu swash sub.
Cain: A maniac!
Depardieu, go razz a rogue I draped.
Ed, I saw Harpo Marx ram Oprah W. aside.
I, Rasputin, knit up Sari.
Let O'Hara gain an inn in a niagara hotel.
Noriega can idle, held in a cage...Iron!
O, geronimo, no minor ego!
Plan no damn Madonna LP.
Red lost case, Ma. Jesse James acts older.
Sis, ask Costner to not rent socks "As Is"!
So, G. Rivera's tots are virgos.
T. Eliot nixes sex in toilet!
To Idi Amin: I'm a idiot!
A tin mug for a jar of gum, Nita.
Ah, Satan sees Natasha.
amaryllis sillyrama
Animal loots foliated detail of stool lamina.
Bird rib.
Bombard a drab mob.
But sad Eva saved a stub.
Camus sees sumac.
Daedalus: nine, Peninsula: dead.
Dairy myriad.
Deirdre wets altar of St. Simons - no mists, for at last ewer dried.
Denim axes examined.
Dior droid.
Drat Sadat, a dastard!
Drat Saddam, a mad dastard!
Egad! No bondage!
emu fat sap pasta fume
Enid and Edna dine:
Eda Nomel's lemonade
Bel Paese a pleb
Parkay yak rap
Feeble el beef
Roti de pup editor
Eel, urbane hen a brulee
Self-furnace Pecan ruffles
Evil olive.
Flee to me, remote elf.
Flesh! Saw I Mimi wash self!
Gert, I saw Ron avoid a radio-van - or was it Reg?
Gnu dung.
Go hang a salami! I'm a lasagna hog!
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
God, a slap! Paris, sir, appals a dog.
Goldenrod-adorned log
Gustav Klimt milk vats - ug!
I maim Miami.
I, zani Nazi.
Jar a tonga, nag not a raj.
Kayak salad - Alaska yak.
Laminated E.T. animal.
Lay a wallaby baby ball away, Al.
"M" lab menial slain: embalm.
Man, Eve let an irate tar in at eleven a.m.
Mayhem, eh Yam?
"Miry rim! So many daffodils," Delia wailed, "slid off a dynamo's
miry rim!"
Ned, go gag Ogden.
Nog eroded Oregon.
Nosegay ages on.
O.E.D. or rodeo?
Paganini: Din in A Gap.
Party boobytrap.
Poor Dan is in a droop.
Red Nevada vendor.
Reflog a golfer
Reno loner
Rise, take lame female Kate, sir.
Rococo "R".
Rot-corpse Sumatran art amuses proctor.
Sex-aware era waxes.
Sh, Tom sees moths.
Sir, I soon saw Bob was no Osiris.
Sis, Sargasso Moss a grass is.
Sniff'um muffins.
So, Ida, adios!
Solo gigolos.
Sore eye, Eros?
Sore was I ere I saw Eros.
Stab nail at ill Italian bats.
Star comedy by Democrats.
Stella won no wallets
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots!
Strategem: megatarts.
straw warts
Tense, I snap Sharon roses, or Norah's pansies net.
Too bad, I hid a boot.
Trafalgar rag: La Fart
Tuna nut
U.F.O. tofu.
Viva le te de Tel Aviv
Was raw tap ale not a reviver at one lap at Warsaw?
We seven, Eve, sew.
Yell upset a cider: predicates pulley.
Yo! Bottoms up, U.S. Motto, boy!
FOREIGN LANGUAGE PALINDROMES
(Latin)
Subi dura a rudibus (endure rough treatement from uncultured brutes)
(Finnish)
Saippuakauppias (soap dealer)
(the longest one word palindrome in the world!)
suolatalous - salt economy
iso rikas sika sokosakissa kirosi - a fat rich pig cursed in a poker
gang
isa, ala myy myymalaasi - father, don't sell your shop (two dots over
those a's)
(Welsh)
Llad dafad dall (kill a blind sheep)
(Swedish)
Ni talar bra latin (you speak good Latin)
[ Editor: a collection compiled by Christoph Enzinger
<leo@cosy.sbg.ac.at>, copied in full as found. The numbers in
parentheses are source references in the original list, not explained
there. About fifteen items (e.g. "A Toyota", "Ojo Rojo", "dairy
myriad", "top spot") and the "Satire: Veritas" note already appear in
the entry above; other versions of the Professor Jones story and the
Snakes-on-Buns script appear there too. German glosses in the
original: "Milchpulver" = powdered milk, "amerikanische
Produktbezeichnung" = American product name. ]
semordnilap (reversible palindromes)
With the phrases ", Sir, is " and ", sides reversed, is " each mordnilap can
be used to produce two palindromes... And some can be used with the phrase "
was I ere I saw ", too.
dog * don * gas * nip * pat * pit * pot * raw * Able * bard * burg * edit *
evil * emit * flog * flow * gulp * keep * klaw * Klim (Milchpulver) * liar *
loop * maps * mood * moor * part * pots * stop * Tums * devil * lager *
peels * strap * straw * Dennis * Erifon (amerikanische Produktbezeichnung) *
lamina * repaid * deliver * dessert * reknits * Serutan (amerikanische
Produktbezeichnung) * ZOONOOZ (magazine of the Zoological Society of San
Diego, California) * rewarder * samaroid * stressed * A dum reb * Deliver no
evil * Go, droop aloof * Red rum * Sin? Net slam
circular reversals
Dmitri - I'm dirt
Synopsis - Pony's sis.
Ungarbed - Brag, nude!
Playmate - Al, pet Amy.
Premature - Peru-tamer!
Mayonnaise - I annoy Ames.
Betasyamine - I may sate Ben.
unsorted palindromes
Are poets a waste? Opera!
Laminar Animal (18)
A Toyota (18)
Llama gem: a mega mall (I live by the Mall of America) (18)
Nome Lemon (18)
No emu: minimum eon. (18)
Ammo, momma! (18)
Amore, Roma! (18)
Noise lesion (18)
Dial simple? Ha! Help mislaid. (18)
Ojo Rojo (18)
A button, not tuba (18)
Wolf ran - I'm a loner. Awe? Beware, no laminar flow. (18)
Senile lines (18)
See? Peter arose! Pardon, was I red! No wonder, I saw no drapes, or are
tepees? (18)
A tire rut, Celtic illicit, lecture Rita (18)
Retrace Carter. (18)
No speed? Nurses run deep, son!! (18)
Nite slain, Ed sat as denial set in. (18)
E. Carey walter, abacus,U.S. nectar for evil liver of rate census, U
cabaret lawyer ace. (18)
Sam, a Jap, laminates set animal pajamas. (R. Smith )
I, Ed, sung an Agnus Dei. (R. Smith
Semite Moses orders red rose sometimes. (R. Smith
Arab rabbi's on Sahara. Fara has no sib, Barbara! (R. Smith
airy syria (19)
and eerie eire edna (19)
avid diva (19)
avon nova (18)
bar arab (19)
car id: dirac (19)
cigar: tragic (19)
cite mimetic (19)
dairy myriad (19)
damon nomad (19)
debt? oh hotbed (19)
deer breed (19)
della balled (19)
dim it, timid (19)
dine enid (19)
dna land (19)
dr awkward (19)
drab mob bombard (19)
draw award (19)
draw oh howard (19)
draw eel leeward (19)
drawn inward (19)
drawn onward (19)
el cycle (19)
elba referable (19)
eli bun (nubile) (19)
emil slime (19)
era flew: welfare (19)
ere hoc cohere (19)
eros? eyesore! (19)
evil alive (19)
evil clive (19)
ex axe (19)
hair appall; lap pariah (19)
late fetal (19)
leper repel (19)
liar ed, derail (19)
live devil (19)
mad adam (19)
mao foam (19)
metro mortem (19)
motto: bottom (19)
mr alarm (19)
ms alp plasm (19)
nail lillian (19)
name dis sideman (19)
neil alien (19)
no sob boson (19)
no side edison (19)
no stetson (19)
noise hoc cohesion (19)
noise lesion (19)
not rub burton (19)
not ron norton! (19)
race dis sidecar (19)
rail liar (19)
rat star (19)
red rum murder (19)
red now wonder (19)
rent rap partner (19)
rio (memo) memoir (19)
sail alias (19)
salt atlas (19)
sex axes (19)
sex rex xerxes (19)
set set testes (19)
sir bed debris (19)
sir iris (19)
sir ron norris (19)
snob big gibbons (19)
sore eros (19)
sub bus (19)
sue deus (19)
sue zeus (19)
tell if fillet (19)
ten alp planet (19)
tic illicit (19)
toil eliot (19)
tram smart (19)
tube debut (19)
wart straw (19)
wet stew (19)
yale delay (19)
ada mr armada (19)
adage beg ada (19)
aerate jet area (19)
aim, ed: academia (19)
air alamo? malaria! (19)
allah la valhalla (19)
am oral aroma (19)
am god: dogma! (19)
amen, icy cinema (19)
an added dana (19)
an alibi lana (19)
arena gilligan era (19)
art! (xenon extra) (19)
bacon, no cab (19)
baltic illicit lab (19)
beware vera web (19)
bolshoi oh slob (19)
boredom mode, rob (19)
borrow or rob (19)
camelot stole mac (19)
cite cat acetic (19)
dairymen ozone myriad (19)
dallas reversal lad (19)
dateline senile tad (19)
debra war bed (19)
deft fed (19)
diagnose: song aid (19)
diamond, no maid (19)
diana can aid
(19)
diaper prep aid
(19)
docile eli cod
(19)
dockside disk cod
(19)
doctor rot cod
(19)
dr offal afford
(19)
dr acetate card (19)
dr old lord
(19)
dr of mumford
(19)
draw octet coward
(19)
edit peptide
(19)
elastic illicit sale
(19)
elba: so losable (Napoleon?)
ergodic acid ogre
(19)
erosion illinois ore
(19)
evocable elba cove
(19)
fit omaha motif
(19)
gibbon: knob big! (19)
gigawatt ottawa gig
(19)
gnu dung (19)
gunshot oh snug
(19)
hanna vast savannah
(19)
harass sarah
(19)
lab acetate cabal
(19)
lager aware gal
(19)
martini mini tram
(19)
miami maim (19)
mix a maxim
(19)
mr alan alarm (19)
mr ego germ
(19)
ms iv atavism
(19)
ms ida sadism (19)
nag old logan
(19)
nail lily lillian
(19)
name taboo bateman
(19)
naomi, moan!
(19)
net forever, often!
(19)
network row ten
(19)
niagara bar again
(19)
nigeria zaire gin
(19)
night fifth gin
(19)
nobel title bon
(19)
nod rape pardon
(19)
not lima hamilton
(19)
nutshell eh stun
(19)
of nil info (19)
pariah thai rap
(19)
parody do rap
(19)
planar? an alp?
(19)
potato idiot atop
(19)
re tahiti hater
(19)
re tame mater
(19)
red icy cider
(19)
red lenin elder
(19)
revenge beg never
(19)
risen ozone sir
(19)
sir obese boris (19)
sir odd doris
(19)
sir apollo paris
(19)
sure tuff uterus
(19)
tar comedy democrat
(19)
ted ace cadet (19)
title babel tit
(19)
to bore robot
(19)
tonsil is not
(19)
too fat afoot
(19)
top spot
(19)
trade bed art
(19)
trade dart
(19)
was raw warsaw
(19)
waste pet saw
(19)
wonder fred now
(19)
xerxes sussex rex (19)
yankee meek nay
(19)
yaw yell alleyway
(19)
yaw ron norway
(19)
yell or trolley
(19)
yen side disney
(19)
yugoslav also guy! (19)
Luna, nul one, moon, nemo, drown, word. In mutual autumn
I go; (Feel fog rob all life; fill labor, go flee fog in mutual
autumn I drown word; omen; no omen. O luna, nul. (by Graham Reynolds)
THE END
Professor Jones had been working on time theory for many years. "And I have
found the key equation", he told his daughter one day. "Time is a field.
This machine I have made can manipulate, even reverse, that field."
Pushing a button as he spoke, he said, "This should make time run backward
run time make should this." said he, spoke he as button a pushing.
"Field that, reverse even, manipulate can made have I machine this.
Field a is time." Day one daughter his told he, "Equation key the found
have I an". Years many for theory time on working been had Jones Professor.
END THE
(by Frederic Brown, from "Nightmares and Geezenstacks", Bantam, 1961)
The entire book "Satire: Veritas" is a palindrome, it starts
"Sir, I stra..." and ends "... Art, sir, is Satire: Veritas."
If you're on a Unix machine, try typing
man rofyrtnelaunamon
The Scene:
A snake plantation in the Antebellum South. Snakes on Buns, the favorite
delicacy of the locals is also the leading export at the nearby seaport.
Unfortunately, the Civil War has begun and it is only a matter of time
before the U.S. Navy blockades the port.
Dramatis Personae:
The Master of the Plantation
Snub-nose Kansas Sam (a hired hand)
A Slave.
The Script:
Slave: "Massa! Snakes-on-Buns Embargo!"
Master[fainting]: "O grab me Snub-nose Kansas Sam!"
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Christoph Enzinger - leo@cosy.sbg.ac.at
[ Editor: from the Web page "Neil/Fred's Gigantic List of Palindromes"
(mid-1990s), maintained by Neil "Fred" Picciotto. The page opened:
"Know any palindromes I don't have listed? Don't mail me them. I'm
not maintaining this page anymore." It carried the notice "Enjoy
wordplay? Like to do word games and puzzles? Then check out the
National Puzzlers' League!" Its list of 460 standard palindromes, the
Panama palindromes (including Dan Hoey's 543-word one), the poem
"Mood's mode!", and most of its foreign and word-unit palindromes are
already in this entry or in language/international.palindromes (the
standard list matches the "General Palindromes" list above; its "Note:
nine Devo-organists in a groove den in Eton." is given there with
"Eaton"). Only the remaining items are given here. ]
Palindromic Poems
"To I, Lester"
A cotton eve,
O, trap! Eden!
O, television sad as night.
I wonder if senile sirs tell war days,
Words selfless, drowsy...
A drawl lets rise lines fired
[No!]
With gin:
Sad as "no" is,
I've let one depart.
O, eve--
Not to care...
--T. S. Eliot
(by Jesse K. Rosenthal, jrosent1@cc.swarthmore.edu)
Foreign Palindromes
Dutch
Lepel? Nee kok, een LEPEL!
Spoon? No cook, a SPOON!
Finnish
Note: "Saippuakivikauppias" [ Editor: "soap stone dealer" ] is the
longest one-word palindrome in the world.
Swedish
Sirap i Paris.
Syrup in Paris.
Word Palindromes
[ Editor: the page gives the word-unit palindrome "Son I am able," she
said, "though you scare me." ... "able am I, Son." (already in this
entry above) with the source: ]
(from the song "I Palindrome I" by They Might Be Giants)
Palindromic Computer Programs
This is not only a palindromic program, it's actually a palindromic
self-replicating program. That means that if you take your C compiler,
compile this code, and then run it, the output of the program is
exactly the code of the program.
You'll need to remove the newline characters (i.e. make it one long
line), and you may need to add #include <stdio.h>, which slightly
blemishes the program, but it really is still incredibly cool. (By the
way, I didn't write this, someone mailed it to me...)
/**/main(){char*a=/*/};)q,q,a,q,q,811+a(ftnirp;'"'=q,/**/"/**/main(){char*a=/*/
};)q,q,a,q,q,811+a(ftnirp;'c%'=q,/**/c%s%c%/**/,q='c%';printf(a+118,q,q,a,q,q);
}/*/=a*rahc{)(niam/**/main(){char*a=/*/};)q,q,a,q,q,811+a(ftnirp;'%c'=q,/**/%c%
s%c/**/,q='%c';printf(a+118,q,q,a,q,q);}/*/=a*rahc{)(niam/**/"/**/,q='"';printf
(a+118,q,q,a,q,q);}/*/=a*rahc{)(niam/**/
-- Neil "Fred" Picciotto
[ Editor: from an unsigned, undated alphabetical list of 1195
palindromes. Palindromes already given in this
entry, in its earlier supplement, or in the archive's other palindrome
entries (ignoring differences of punctuation and case) have been left
out; the rest follow in the list's order. A few are not English (in
German, French, Dutch, Italian, Greek and Latin), as in the list. Long
palindromes are wrapped, with continuation lines indented. ]
A Bob in Iniboba.
A coup d'etat saved devastated Puoca.
A Dan, a clan, a canal - Canada!
A dog, a pant, a panic in a Patna Pagoda.
A dum reb was I ere I saw Bermuda.
A man, a plan, a cam, a yak, a yam, a canal; Panama!
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe,
percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag
again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar,
sore hats, a peon, a canal--Panama!
A man, a plan, a palindrome: Emordnilapanalpanama!
A motto, Ma!
A Nut for a jar of tuna.
A rag ain't Niagara.
A retard's drat era.
A rod, not a bar, a baton, Dora.
A tip: save eva's pita.
A war at Tarawa.
A woman, a plan, a canal: Panamowa!
Ah, Aristides opposed it, sir, aha!
Ah! O, Stupid, a spam maps ad I put, so HA!
Ah, Satan, derogating Nita, hating Nita, gored Natasha.
Ah, Satan, dog-deifier! (Oh who reified God, Natasha?)
Ah, Satan, no smug smirk rims gums on Natasha.
Ah, Satan, shall a devil deliver Hannah? Reviled lived Allah's Natasha!
Aha, ma' Yamaha!
All erotic, I lose my lyme solicitor, Ella.
Allah, lave Valhalla!
Am a Jap, Pajama.
Am a Jap sniper, Repins Pajama.
Amen, enema!
Amiable was I ere I saw Elba, Ima.
An Italian test - pure lava, naval, erupts; Etna, Ila Tina.
Analytic Paget saw an inn in a waste-gap city, Lana.
Anne, I stay a day at Sienna.
Arden saw I was Nedra.
Are poets at oddness's end? Do taste opera!
Are we not drawn onwards, we Jews, drawn onward to new era?
Are we not, Rae, near to new era?
Ay, not too hot to hoot tons o' snot --- too hot to hoot Tonya.
"Ball-Litigate-Paste" lab. Balet's ape! Tag it! I'll lab!
Ban campus motto, "Bottoms up, MacNab."
Beg; get cud, Ivor; oviduct egg, Eb.
Big albino - red row order on Iblagib.
Blub golf radar flog bulb
Bob: "Did Anna peep?" Anna: "Did Bob?"
Bob! No! ...and gams-la-nerf, renal smag DNA on Bob...
Bog dirt up a side track carted is a putrid gob.
Bolt Alps, smite Tim's... Splat! Lob!
Boston, O do not sob.
But live dogma - I am god - evil tub!
But ragusa store, babe, rots a sugar-tub.
Butte (pre-wombat), tab-mower pet tub.
Butter genie ebb? ARG! Grab bee in egret tub!
Care, Mac! No! Putrid! Gag dirt upon camera c!
Castle Moat: Lag a nut - Tuna gal, "Tao-Melt-Sac!"
Craci portion, o' got bac, cab to go... No! I "tropic arc"!
D.A.: Ed's pets brag; a garb steps - dead!
Damosel, a poem? A carol? Or a cameo pale? (So mad!)
Damp Macedonia truck curtain ode: Camp Mad.
Dan... Ogre! El "tot" sir, Aristotle... er, GONAD!
Dare I VAX on no Xavier ad?
Dare, pagan flea? Elf nag ape! Rad!
Dear, be glad.. a hardy hydra had algebra, ed.
Deb: Boris eyed a jade. Yes, I too, Otis, eyed a jade - yes, I robbed!
Decal: "Lord Elf Fart Raffle" - droll! Aced?
Deep Star Six: axis rat speed
Deer flee freedom in Oregon? No, Geronimo - deer feel freed.
Deer frisk, sir, freed.
Deer gain one X-Y-Z arch, crazy xenon. I agreed.
"Degenerate Moslem, a cad!" Eva saved a camel so Meta reneged.
Degenerating, I do maim - assail, alienating Nita. I came, fleecing Nita
- I dare ululating Nita. Rape's era now is gelatinating; Nita, I've
done no deviating. Nita! Nita! Legs I won are separating! Nita Lulu
- eradiating nice elf - emaciating Nita, Neil, alias Sam, I am! O
dig? (Nita reneged!)
Delia, here we nine were hailed.
Delia sailed as a sad Elias ailed.
Delia sailed, Eva waved, Elias ailed.
Delia's debonair dahlias, poor, drop or droop. Sail, Hadrian; Obed
sailed.
"Deliver desserts", demanded Nemesis, "emended, named, stressed,
reviled."
Deliver, Eva, him I have reviled.
Deliver no evil, live on reviled.
Delivery reviled.
Den made live Roman kayak? Na! More vile, damned!
Dennis, Nell, Edna, a Mr. Idi Amin Dada, Dad-n-I, Maid Irma, and Ellen
sinned.
Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo,
Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena,
Ida, Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario,
Jan, Ina, Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana,
Lynne, Pearl, Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron,
Flora, Tina, Arden, Noel, and Ellen sinned.
Dennis's drawer lives! Ah! Has evil rewards? Sin, Ned.
Deny a god, O gay Ned!
Depart spa? Yeh. Fire Kirk, Riker, if he yaps "Trap Ed!".
Dew, eh, creep? Flat it! Alf? Peer Chewed!
Di, did I as I said I did?
Did Dean aid Diana? Ed did.
Did Hannah say as Hannah did?
Did I, ameliorating Nita, roil Ema? I did.
Did I, debating, Nita dating, Nita bed? I did.
Did Ione take Kate? No, I did.
Dill lung, I became mace - big null lid.
Do good? I? No! Evil anon I deliver. I maim nine more hero-men in
Saginaw, sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I--lo!--rack, cut a drowsy
rat in Aswan. I gas nine more hero-men in Miami. Reviled, I (Nona)
live on. I do, O God!
Do, O God, no evil deed, live on, do good.
Dog Pal sat in Nita's lap. God!
Dog simulation at pallid Bush sub dill. Apt... a, no... it... alum is
god!
Don't nod. No, Don. Don't we nod on Don? Nod, nod, O Newt, nod! No, Don,
don't nod.
Doom an evil deed, liven a mood.
Doom, royal panic, I mimic in a play or mood.
Dora tendered net, a rod.
Dou quod
Dr. Alder, Nita sat in red lard.
Drab as a fool, as aloof as a bard.
Drab Reg, no longer bard.
Draught nine men in th' guard.
Draw - aye, no melody - dole-money award.
Draw no deep speed onward.
Draw, O Caesar, erase a coward.
Draw pupil's pup's lip upward.
Ducat, Solicitor? Emus - soporific? Nanci fir Opossum - erotic? I lost a
cud!
E. Carey Walter, abacus, U.S. nectar for evil liver of rat census, U
cabaret lawyer ace.
E finks it's old Otto'd lost 'is knife.
Eb, 'tis no. Ed, I get a hotel Bible to hate - Gideon's it be.
Ed: a general, a renegade.
Ed aced a decade.
Editor rubs ward, draws burro tide.
"Egad! An anode carnage mix at a taxi," Megan raced on : an adage.
Egad! Loretta has Adams mad as a hatter. Old age!
"El administration" gals: slag? No! It... art? sin! I'm dale!
Elbbow? No! Elb! Bird talc, clat! Dribble on? Wobble!
Embargos are macabre. Sad Nell, listen O! not to no nets -- I'll lend a
Serb a camera, so grab me!
Emil asleep, Allen yodelled "Oy." Nella peels a lime.
Emil asleep, Hannah peels a lime.
Emit draw; eek! Nay, Yankee, ward time!
Emma, doll, I'd accept Nan Guper as a ton tub - But not as a repugnant
peccadillo, dam me!
Emrof's "Eivom Ping Pong" as a G; no PG nip movies for me!
Er, go on, trap Steven in, I say. Me oh my! Nor can an "air" bee sew. We
see, Brian. An acronym? Hoe my asinine vet's part? No, ogre!
Ere hypocrisies or poses are in, my hymn I erase. So prose I, Sir, copy
here.
Ergo, oravi jam, Iesu. O, no use. I'm a Jivaro ogre.
Erosion / Illicit song at far, clientele fill autumnal tarp, swelter,
fret. Lew Spratlan Mutual Life let Neil craft agnostic Illinois ore.
Espagnola solos along apse.
E.T., select celeste.
Euston saw I was not Sue.
Euston sees not Sue.
Eva, can I pose as Aesop in a cave?
Eva, hot Ma, I sail amid arrests! I go, Lois, ere heresiologists err! A
dim alias I am to have.
Ever, Yr. Eve.
Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
Ewe tale relate we.
Feeble man, emu in a regal (a gala) geranium, enamel beef.
Feeble Tom's motel beef.
Flaccid Ron, on steps, pets no Nordic calf.
Flee to me, remote elf --- Sal a dewan desired; Now is a Late-Petal era.
We fade: lucid Iris, red Rose of Sharon; Goldenrod a silly ram ate.
Wan olives teem (ah, Satan lives!); A star eyes pale Roses. Revel,
big elf on a mayonnaise man --- A tinsel baton-dragging nice elf
too. Lisp, oh sibyl, dragging Nola along; Niggardly bishops I loot.
Fleecing niggard notables Nita names, I annoy a Man of Legible
Verse. So relapse, ye rats, As evil Natasha meets Evil On a wet,
amaryllis-adorned log. Norah's foes' orders (I ridiculed a few) are
late, Pet. Alas, I wonder! Is Edna wed? Alas --- flee to me, remote
elf.
Flo, gin is a sin. I golf.
Go hang a salami, doc! Note: I dissent; A fast never prevents a fatness.
I diet on cod, I'm a lasagna hog.
God damn! I - evil asserts - impugn a bastion of rabies use. I barf! O,
no, it's a bang-up mistress, alive in Maddog!
Gong! Get set, Ed --- detest egg-nog!
Had lost care: Pus super acts old... ah!
Haiti--ah!
He's won ken of ill etiology; named a mere hoot, and no stats on DNA,
too. Here made many go, "Lo!, I tell if one knows, eh?"
Hot new-age moderate? Bah! Plan on alphabet. A red Omega went 'Oh!'.
I make Emperor E.T.'s nominee ten into borg robot nineteen. I monster, o
rep? Meek am I!
I saw a lone Bigot live. Live now shall a hoar bedside idyll. A cigar to
senile fatso? Lemon, Amoret? Aloe, cruel bailiff? A nun, Adine, I
saw alone. Bigot, live - live now! (Shall a hoar bedside idyll?) A
cigar to satinet, aloe-cruel bailiff - Anubis! Naomi, stark rabid, I
bark "Rats!" I moan, Sib! Unaffiliable urceolate Nita so tragically
died! Is Debra (Oh Allah's won!) evil - evil to gibe, Nola? Was I,
Enid? An unaffiliable urceolate Roman (O me!) Lost a feline, so -
tragically died! Is Debra (Oh Allah's won!) evil - evil to gibe?
Nola, was I?
I sette si
I'd nah go, am, ta hum: "Muhatma O'Ghandi!"
I'm a lasagna hog, go hang a salami.
Koos u de garage dus ook?
Lana! I saw supple (help!) Pus! Was I anal?
Lattimer asks a remittal, Eva. Histolytic city lots I have; Lattimer
asks a remittal.
Lem, a camel! Lace my ryme, call 'em a camel!
Lid of fade, metallic soot, emit Garret-simple, help mister ragtime to
oscillate me, daffodil.
Loofahs in aviolin! In a gap in my hymn, I - Paganini! - lo, I vanish, a
fool!
Ma, I so resign. It's all a poet air. Ben is, I see, so Greek. In sly
dissent I wore no gay ruff. O see by a brae his nag roll or yaw?
Awol laws (as are every god's) are a dire rod. "Aye, fade with gin -
O, too wispily, Sordid rosy lips I woo. (Tonight I wed a fey adorer,
Ida.) Eras do gyre - veer as a swallow away. Roll, organs I hear!
Bay, bees of fury ago! Nero, witness idyls Nike ergo sees! Is
inebriate Opal lasting? Is Eros? I am!"
Mad Ambrose, Mord, 'n' I lap palindromes. Orb, Madam.
Madam, it's Tim. Or is it? O, 'tis I, Rom. It's Tim, Adam.
Mad as it is, it is Adam!
Many bees in air, an Alp, aplanarian I see, Bynam.
Marge, let dam dogs in. Am on satire: Vow I am Cain, am on spot, am a
Jap sniper. Red, raw murder on G.I.! Ignore drum. (Warder repins
Pajama tops.) No maniac, ma! Iwo veritas: No man is god. - Mad
Telegram.
May Irene Dunne melt tacks? Ask cattlemen, nude Neri yam.
Megawatt Ottawa gem.
Mood's mode! Pallas, I won. (Diaper pane, sold entire.) Melt till ever
sere, hide it. Drown a more vile note; (Tar of rennet.) Ah, trowel,
baton, eras ago. The reward? A "nisi." Two nag. Otary tastes putrid,
yam was green. Odes up and on; stare we. Rats nod. Nap used one-erg
saw. (May dirt upset satyr?) A toga now; 'tis in a drawer, eh? Togas
are notable. (Worth a tenner for Ate.) Tone liver. O Man, word-tied
I. Here's revel! Little merit, Ned? Lose, Nap? Repaid now is all
apedom's doom.
Nab rural osteo-poet solar? Urban?
N'a-t-elle pas ote cet os a Pelletan?
Niagara, eh? So those *do* sip enamel bait, O Genevieve. I've negotiable
man episodes. Oh, to shear again!
Nispon anomimata mi monan opsin
No lemon, no melon!
No, nay! Nat is too bossy, as I say, "Go! Be off for a fat salami!"
Aloof, at lovers I had named I stare. Here smegma is food, a kimono
is secret sin. I misled a ticklish sultan at lush silk citadels I
minister. Cession, O Mikado, of Siam Gems ere he rats, I demand! Ah
- is revolt a fool aim? (A last, a far-off foe - bogy as I - says
so.) Boots it any anon?
No sir! Away! A papaya war is on.
No witness--a fool. A nasal aria's time emits air. Alas, an aloof
assent: I won.
Nora, by my Llano, I to mellific Ida toss drowsy astral-age roses. Ava,
put up a vase so regal. (Art says words Sotadic I fill emotionally,
my baron.)
Noriega to base: sabotage iron.
Not a black-cat tacit cat tactic: attack Cal baton.
Not Rog nor we rip mussel flesh, selfless umpire - wrong, Orton?
O Bobo! Get INDI clear! He'd render a red nerd eh? RA! El Cid nite! Go
Bobo!
O desire me, Tad - I'm it - nip, intimidate me, rise, do!
O, I hope Ed 'n' I see referees in deep Ohio.
Oh, wet Alex - a jar, a fag! Up, disk, curve by! Man Oz, Iraq, Arizona,
my Bev? Ruck's id-pug - a far Ajax - elate? Who?
Oo - Greta! Etna erupts a vast, pure anteater goo!
Panda crone. my hymen, orc! Ad: "nap".
Pasts ape page? Gac! Cage: Gape, past sap!
Pater - get a Luger & regulate Greta P.
Pop Li, give we tix, o boy! Drat! Suck calf! Ma, Jan, Inez -- odd? Ah!
Iraq, Ari, had dozen in a jam! Flack custard? Yo! Box it: Ewe vigil,
pop!
Pray God to help, Massa Handel! Edna has sample hot dog! Yarp!
pull up
Raw, evil dam on Niagara. Gain net time! Sub bus, emit ten Niagara! Gain
no mad, live war!
Recif' foxes in Uruguay, S.A., eat niacin ovals. Slavonic ain't a easy
augur, Unisex Officer.
Red now, Ned dost foil a usual lag. Nine vessel yaws. I say 'n' obey (no
believer's *reveil*) "ebony, ebony" as I sway less, evening all. A
usual I, oft sodden, wonder.
Reh (ein Eistier?) trug Tim relativ vital. Er, mit Gurt, reit' sie nie
her.
Rev. Ned: N.I. Silas, a noodle, held Oona. Sal is in Denver.
Rev. Ned: Nina made Ed a man in Denver.
Revenge, Bill? I won! O, will I beg? Never.
"Revolt, Capitano? No! I tag it: 'Sacred Rose of Red'." "No! We talk
lawsuit. No petal, I presume, rips a dogma." "I deliver storied,
sung, Astral Aid. O, profit on droll anger? Regnal Lord, not I! For
podial arts Agnus Dei rots. Reviled I am, God." (Aspire muser!
Pilate, Pontius, walk late - wonder!...) "Foes order castigation! On
a tip act, Lover!"
Rex, I fret --- I ogle Von's novel goiter fixer.
Risk same rut: A rep. met Baltimore zoo team. Mae Too: Zero M.I.T. lab
temperature masks IR
Rot, a Colette, lemonade-tart surf frustrated an omelette locator.
Sad, I mail haddock, cod, dahlia, Midas.
Sator Arepo tenet opera rotas
See? Pure, vile kilt can aid Nino, con Indian, act like live rupees.
See? Peter arose! Pardon, was I red! No wonder, I saw no drapes, or are
tepees?
semitimes
"Sine-polyp-pepto-rot", madam? Rip at tapir, madam. To rot peppy? lo'
penis!
Sis is Isis. Sis is sis is Isis...
Snug senile Heresiologist, farce! Be xerus-nosed, aha! (Hades! On sure
xebec-rafts I go, Lois, ere he lines guns!)
Stacy - my rat, on a notary! My cats!
Storm a ham, Red, or excite negatives, Evita. Genetic xeroderma? Ham
rots.
Strategy: get arts!
Sure, vomit, Tim, over us!
Swen: gag geese. Booneville: hot tin, mad. Damn it to hell, I've no
obese egg, Agnew S.
tattarrattat
Ted, I beg, am I not ever a venom? - Mon Eva reve ton image, bidet!
Tell Abe: rip, menace pecan empire ballet.
Thru modem, Anna, I rat 'n' e-mail rap at a parliamentarian named
Omurht.
Tim, lack cats? Drab bard? Stack calm; it!
To Id: If I, an emoter, cannot fight or fall, or, frustrated, I bay and
do sit - 'tis odd. Nay! Abide, tart surf! Roll a froth gift on nacre
to me - Naif idiot.
Toi, Roger, epele Le Pere Goriot.
Tonto's on Toronto - got no rot, no sot - NOT!
"Too hot to hoot!" "Too hot to woo!" "Too wot?" "To woo!" "Too wot?" "To
hoot! Too hot to hoot!"
Trader saw a red underside Rossi, Tim it is so, red is red, nude, raw as
red art.
Warts! I'm a giblet, O hotel bigamist - raw!
We pelt rats, red dudes! I've let a televised udder startle Pew.
Well, I attack cats 'n' stack cattail, Lew.
Wonton? Not now.
xerex
Ye boot, Ref, for Owen; gag Agnew, or offer to obey.
Yes, pal, a Roman is red dung. Is Nero? Dip sucks Alf's flask cuspidor.
Ensign: udder's in a moral apsey.
Yo, bang a salami, I'm a lasagna boy!
[ Editor: palindromes in a novel, mailed to Chris Cole in October
1997. ]
In Spider Robinson's 1996 novel "Callahan's Legacy" (Tor paperback,
1997, ISBN 0-812-55035-8), the 12 chapters have the following titles:
1. Too hot to hoot
2. Too far, Edna: we wander afoot
3. Mr. Alarm
4. I, madam, I made radio! So I dared! Am I mad? Am I?
5. Ed, undo bod, nude
6. Rise to vote, sir!
7. Party trap
8. Rettebs, I flahd noces, eh? Ttu, but the second half is better...
9. Now, Ned, I am a maiden won...
10. Er... "Om" more!
11. Pop, Mom, pop!
12. Are we not drawn forward to a new era?
Most of them actually do have something to do with the chapter
content. For example, a birth occurs in chapter 11. I particularly
like that one!
Note that there are only 10 genuine palindromes, as #8 is a joke and
#12 isn't a palindrome.
One of the characters in the book is real-life mad(?) scientist Nikola
Tesla. In chapter 4, he speaks the title of the chapter, and other
characters speak the following lines. The first few (three, I
presume) of these are acknowledged as not original.
Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog.
Wonder if Sununu's fired now?
Lewd did I live; evil did I dwell. [sic]
Mac snubs Bob's bun scam.
A six is a six is a six is a six is a...
Top spot.
Go, dog!
Sue us!
-- Mark Brader <msb@sq.com>
[ Editor: three Web pages of the mid-1990s. Palindromes from the
second and third that are already in this entry have been left out. ]
[ Editor: 1. "When in Palindrome", a contest of The Atlantic Monthly's
"Atlantic Unbound" Word Games pages (8/9/96-8/23/96), with the results,
given in full. Names without @ are AOL screen names. ]
WHEN IN PALINDROME
Did you know that Mr. Sterling, the director of all those "Twilight
Zone" episodes, used to take his summer vacations in Las Vegas, selling
trinkets in a little booth? It's true! He was known as
Rod: Nevada vendor
Okay, so we made that up. But we wanted to give you an example of a
palindrome--a phrase reading the same way forwards and backwards. And
now we'd like to send you on a round-trip journey. To be specific, we
want you to write us a palindrome that contains the name of a
geographical location. This location may be a town, city, state,
country, national park, notorious tourist trap, or whatever you choose.
Palindromes are tricky little devils to write, and we're not expecting
full sentences, flawless grammar, or complete lucidity. The celebrated
palindromes
A man, a plan, a canal--Panama!
and
Niagara, O roar again!
are famous for a good reason. They're exceptionally tidy and
comprehensible. Given the tough constraints, a palindromist is lucky
to make as much sense as
Nog eroded Oregon
(which seems to imply that a Christmas beverage has washed away an
entire state in the Northwestern U.S.), or
Kayak salad: Alaska yak
(which evokes a very dubious luncheon menu in a very precarious
setting).
So don't be afraid to let your head spin. When you've written your
place-containing palindrome, send it to CoxRathvon@aol.com by e-mail.
Multiple entries are okay, but for our convenience pack all your
'dromes into one letter whenever possible, and please don't use
attached files. Senders of the three palindromes we like best will
each receive our heartfelt cry of "Yay!" plus 5 free America Online
hours (if they are AOL members) and a free book from The Atlantic's
Store.
"When in Palindrome" will remain open through Friday, August 23.
Results will be posted at the Atlantic on Friday, August 30.
--EC and HR, who always look both ways
P.S. If you like cryptic crosswords, visit our "Puzzles and Word
Games" folder on the Atlantic's America Online message board (keyword
ATLANTIC) and join the handful of rather crazed clue-writers who are
already at play there! Post clues of your own and see if the gang can
solve 'em!
[ Editor: E. Cox and H. Rathvon. ]
When in Palindrome Results
"So many dynamos!" That's what we were tempted to shout as the
entries for this palindrome contest filled our mailbox. With an
assignment so tough, we never imagined your Wordplay Muses would
cooperate so beautifully.
"Egad! An adage!" That's another thing we almost exclaimed, whenever
someone's palindrome approximated a pithy, memorable (but sometimes
slightly cracked) maxim. For example, RKremer14 seemed to sum up
Shakespeare's lackluster appeal in North Africa by writing: "Bard's
reign at Tangier's drab." Contestant RDH9995 articulated a philosophy
of ancient Greece as follows: "Sparta's one rule: Lure no satraps."
And BALD MT explained singer McEntire's strange popularity among the
older males of Scotland with the pronouncement: "Aberdeen's dads need
Reba."
"Top Spot?" We went back and forth trying to decide which three
palindromes were our very favorites. We appreciated the punchy ones,
including real-life locales such as "Apollo, PA" (an actual suburb of
Pittsburgh, documented by contestant REENAS), "Wassamassaw" (a swamp
north of Charleston, NC, noted by LionInOil), and "Yreka Bakery" (a
California shop, submitted by AEmbry5616). But we also admired the
daring of contestants who used long or unusual place names in their
palindromes. Worthy of special mention in this regard is
guy@research.att.com, whose creation echoes the query "Where in the
world is Carmen Sandiego?" from our recent "Question and Anagram"
contest. Noting that he wanted a palindrome beginning and ending on
the letter Q, Guy wrote: "Q: Arizona, Ixelles, Omaha, Moselle, Xi'an,
Oz, Iraq?"
By the way, our best laugh of the contest came from Unhunk, who said,
"I warned my father not to take up mountain climbing but he refused to
listen," leading to the palindrome: "Saw Pop at Alps. SPLAT! A Pop
was."
After viewing, reviewing, and retroviewing the entries, we finally
settled on Leroy2001, LionInOil, and OberOber as our top-fave
palindromists. OberOber's entries arrived in the form of a palindromic
newspaper; our prize-winning selection reproduces his sports section
from that tabloid.
***The Winners***
Nosy "Kop" sees Sennett at Tennessee's poky, son. (Leroy2001)
Ya, Leona Cabot in a Manitoba canoe lay. (LionInOil)
Sports stories from a palindromic newspaper:
Big Sky baseball coach's lament:
"O, had I nine men in Idaho!"
Yankee coach reassures nervous dean:
"R.I.'s meeting Illinois.... I've let no stats on television! I'll
ignite 'em, sir!"
What happens when you let mascots on the field during a soccer match:
Denmark-Cuba sees a buck ram Ned!
Ohio school outscores Eastern rival a hundredfold in Latin competition:
Xenia: M
Maine: X
Swiss marathoner's bumper sticker:
I RUN IN URI!
(OberOber)
***And Other Top Favorites***
One craft, Ararat. Farce? No. (RKremer14)
Moody Monaco casino con is a "coca"? No, my doom. (GiarcF)
He said, "No, Warsaw was raw" on dais, eh? (GiarcF)
Now live dove jar, a Sarajevo devil won. (GiarcF)
Are ye no Monaco Grace? Cargo can, o money era! (GiarcF)
Won't Carmel, Indiana man aid Nile? Mr., act now! (Stigger4)
Snack car clears Israel crack cans. (REENAS)
Fee, Bev, Australia rail art suave beef. (REENAS)
Let O'Hara gain an inn in a Niagara hotel. (REENAS)
See Barbados: Soda, bra, bees. (BALD MT)
Baja saw was a jab. (BALD MT)
Tame Cal passed Odessa place mat. (BALD MT)
Avon sees nova. (BALD MT)
Tip: E. Kansas is a snake pit. (Tom JR13)
Sam, Ahab T. (alias Bob) sail at Bahamas. (Tom JR13)
Past Idaho had it, sap! (Tom JR13)
Late be Russia, but Tuba is sure bet, Al. (R T Sumo)
I made Kansas sis's as naked am I. (R T Sumo)
An aid: nix Indiana. (woontner@comteck.com)
Ma is niece in "Siam." (woontner@comteck.com)
Aram's at Asmara. (woontner@comteck.com)
Isis saw Assisi. (woontner@comteck.com)
Lear's in it, on top spot not in Israel. (woontner@comteck.com)
A Star Trek actor in a new Superman movie plays a villain trying to
paralyze US grain production:
LeVar to grab Metropolis silo port, embargo travel. (merlyn@dgii.com)
Santa may laugh differently in foreign countries, but:
Oh, in Ohio, I "Ho Ho." (merlyn@dgii.com)
No Ontario nerd eyed Renoir at noon. (Unhunk)
Can Ava help Pot topple Havana, C.? (FisDur)
Stop it. I hate Tahiti pots! (FisDur)
See, by Myanmar a ram, nay, my bees. (FisDur)
Enticing collectors to Mr. Dole's home state:
Trade Kansas' Naked Art (tomd@shasta.amd.com)
How a gambling town gets created from scratch:
One resort rose -- Reno! (tomd@shasta.amd.com)
Splash at Utah's Alps! (tomd@shasta.amd.com)
Bosnia gasps again--sob! (tomd@shasta.amd.com)
On Bosnia: poo, pain, sob -- no! (SASadler)
Aw, Mutt--off Ottumwa! (SASadler)
Name no Maine men? I am one, man. (Mnussbaum)
No evil in Essen. I live on. (Mnussbaum)
No? So go to Togo, son. (Mnussbaum)
A rah, a shah: Sahara! (MARGB0316)
Lo, pot saves Sevastopol! (MARGB0316)
Lear's in Israel. (MARGB0316)
Golan analog (MARGB0316)
Salem's males (MARGB0316)
Reno loner (MARGB0316)
To Peru; pure pot! (MARGB0316)
Sumatra: art am us! (MARGB0316)
Topeka's sake pot (MARGB0316)
O, go to Togo! (MARGB0316)
Hanoi dares use radio? Nah! (RDH9995)
Texas: A space caps a sax, E.T. (RDH9995)
Vietnam Bignik: King Ibmante IV. (RDH9995)
Tarawa: Sam's Ma saw a rat. (RDH9995)
Nome D.A. sees a demon. (RDH9995)
Maine: Ergo green I am. (RDH9995)
Armenia mate met a Maine Mr. A. (RDH9995)
Burma Dad, ah, had a dam rub. (RDH9995)
Tralee tram mart: Eel art. (RDH9995)
Assam lost its Ol' Massa. (RDH9995)
Sedan ere solo serenades. (RDH9995)
Lagos: Site of a foe. 'Tis so, Gal. (RDH9995)
Eton, for one tenor of note. (RDH9995)
Rabat: Ah, what a bar. (RDH9995)
Lodi: On site 'tis no idol. (RDH9995)
Napa: Jot notes, Eton to Japan. (RDH9995)
Nepal lifers refill a pen. (RDH9995)
Natalia was awail, a tan. (RDH9995)
Koko: Moo Bozo, Bozo Boom! O.K.? O.K.! (RDH9995)
A rep of Omaha, a ham of opera. (GARROBMIL)
"Gulp a sip"--Pisa plug. (GARROBMIL)
'Ol Osaka. A.k.a. Solo. (GARROBMIL)
?.....Butte: Et tu, B.....? (GARROBMIL)
Cite Canada! Ad an acetic. (GARROBMIL)
De Liverpool loop reviled. (GARROBMIL)
Dr. of "X", Oxford. (GARROBMIL)
Eyed E. Kansas as naked eye. (GARROBMIL)
I'm a Las Pamas S.A. map salami. (GARROBMIL)
Look, Ma! Rabat. Tab a ram. Kool! (GARROBMIL)
S. Salem Ave., Eva me lass. (GARROBMIL)
S. Simi I miss. (GARROBMIL)
Snug sex at Barbados: Soda bra "B" taxes guns. (GARROBMIL)
St. Ensenada: A Dane's nets. (GARROBMIL)
Stockton, not K.C. o.t.'s. (GARROBMIL)
K. Roy went on gig, not New York. (TEEPOT40)
Sir, a pro for Paris. (TEEPOT40)
Racy art: Salem, a camel, a stray car. (PayPete1st)
Scranton's kooks: not narcs. (PayPete1st)
Eire nixes sex in Erie. (PayPete1st)
Sleek Roy went at New York eels. (PayPete1st)
Tram loops ADA spool mart. (PayPete1st)
Noose: Walla Walla rural law, all awe, soon. (PayPete1st)
Go to Boston, not (sob) Togo. (PayPete1st)
Look! a Butte wet tuba! Kool! (PayPete1st)
Miami's civics: "I Maim" (PayPete1st)
Ra, Decatur! Rut a cedar! (GraceLrena)
Rot Canada Dad! An actor! (GraceLrena)
Eh? Canada had an ache? (GraceLrena)
Nantucket Atek cut Nan. (Cute Beast)
Asia -- a is a. (Cute Beast)
Mexico Jo kix 'em. (Cute Beast)
Toronto got no rot (Cute Beast)
Jojo got yaws. Butt, navel nixes sex in Levant tubs. Way to go Joj'!
(Unhunk)
Tulsa mom a slut. (HARPUNSTER)
Boston dad not S.O.B. (HARPUNSTER)
I, Puyallup pop, pull a yupi. (HARPUNSTER)
Ya! Walla Walla call a wall away. (HARPUNSTER)
E. Montana man at Nome. (HARPUNSTER)
At L.A., no poop on Alta. (HARPUNSTER)
Del Rio: "Vivoir" led. (HARPUNSTER)
An Englishman explaining how he almost broke even at the casino:
One rotten bob, net to Reno. (Robmur)
A carpenter who had hocked all his tools to gamble got all but one back
later:
One rotten saw was net to Reno. (Robmur)
Address of someone who spends all his time at the Tropicana:
A. Davenport, Trop, Nevada. (Robmur)
Ha! Tunisian nabob Anna is in Utah! (BalkyNYC)
Tivoli? I lov'it! (BalkyNYC)
Aberdeen kookoo kneed Reba. (BalkyNYC)
I'm at Paris, non? Si! Rapt ami! (BalkyNYC)
Olson is in Oslo. (BalkyNYC)
O had I deified Idaho! (paula10s@ix.netcom.com)
Trap elk Cuba saw as a buckle part. (paula10s@ix.netcom.com)
Niger diva avid re gin! (paula10s@ix.netcom.com)
I'm aimed at old Madam d'Lotade, Miami. (Mypoet)
O, had I retired in Nideriter, Idaho. (Mypoet)
O, had I lived at Tadevil, Idaho. (Mypoet)
This one hit me while changing planes at O'Hare:
Tension: Illinois net. (Vorstarr)
Anais, I 'U' ole love re: vole Louisiana. (Vorstarr)
Bob's a snake; Kansas Bob. (Ellen.Auriti@ucop.edu)
Sun eve: re--"VENUS" (Pikmee)
Sunny Ragusa, a: "sugary 'n" 'n us!" (Pikmee)
Warsaw was raw. (MiladyJoan)
Lodi made Edam idol. (MiladyJoan)
Avalon - No Lava! (KlnKut)
O, I hope Ed, alias "Nacre Man," and a DNA namer can sail a deep Ohio.
(Dullset)
I maim niece in Miami. (DURDENG)
Aberdeen's ojos need Reba. (DURDENG)
Sir Apnisward draws in Paris. (DURDENG)
Ned, go to hot Ogden. (emarul@net1plus.com)
Can a rascal tan at Lac Saranac? (emarul@net1plus.com)
Ah! A motet--"Omaha"! (emarul@net1plus.com)
A ham on a can--Omaha. (emarul@net1plus.com)
Paris I rap. (emarul@net1plus.com)
Oh, to go to Togo, tho'! (emarul@net1plus.com)
A! Dave! No Nevada! (Taimse)
A Boise plumber's lament:
O, had I part Potato "P"-Trap, Idaho! (SavWmson)
Henry David Thoreau:
On Walden, I pined law? No. (SavWmson)
Overheard at academia conference:
"B.U., Boston?" "Not so, Bub." (SavWmson)
Draw a slot, sir, Bristol's a ward. (Hunny3)
Tam cap?...oh, a Mahopac mat! (Hunny3)
Store time so Yosemite rots! (Hunny3)
Stags! ... draw E. Seward's gats! (Hunny3)
Les made raw ale, Delaware damsel! (Hunny3)
Amore Roma! (djwixted@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Mad Edna, a slut, nipped & sinned w/ Dennis & Depp in Tulsa and Edam.
(djwixted@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Ya won a Toyota? An Indy--o boy! RACE CAR? Yo, Boyd! Nina! A Toyota?
No way! (djwixted@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Overheard in a car during a trip to Potsdam, Germany:
Kramer: I see potty! OH!
Hayden, Ma, Deb (mad): STOP!!
Eva: Damn, no! By Bonn?
Ma, Dave: Potsdam be damned! YAH!
Hoyt: To pees, I remark!
(djwixted@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Son o' cop stops, sees tub (too hot to hoot!), but sees spot's
Poconos. (BabsG XADA)
Did I go Yosemite? Not one time. So Yogi did. (Leroy2001)
Tops? Kona an ok spot. (Leroy2001)
Arizona Gossip:
Treni saw Mesa as Em was inert. (Leroy2001)
A veep met Tab at Tempe, Eva. (Leroy2001)
N. at Sedona's a node, Stan. (Leroy2001)
And Enos cut niece in Tucson, Edna. (Leroy2001)
More stories from a palindromic newspaper:
Dole's "drug-free Kansas" claim is refuted, thanks to quick-thinking
research assistant:
"Ya DO take pot (nice lad, Alec!) in Topeka today!"
Aesthete-king picks vacation spot:
"Art amuses us. Use Sumatra."
NAFTA update:
Oh... Canada had a nacho.
Baseless Rumor Department:
No lye clears Israel, Ceylon.
Golan analog:
On top, Syria has a HAIRY spot, no?
Columnist reports film director kidnaps Wild Man while sexy singer
distracts:
Stu: "Joel Coen robs Borneo! Cleo juts!"
Anti-Spielbergian backlash sweeps Israel:
Tel Aviv erases a revival: E.T.
Actor's hubris in Holy Land:
Zeus nipped J. Depp in Suez.
Walters recalls her interviewing coup:
"Arab, Rabin, Ari, Irani, Barbara..."
Cookie magnate indecent in Wichita:
...So made Kansas "Naked Amos."
Mutiny on the Ark:
Tar a rat at Ararat!
Travelog Section:
Sweden. I video Zoe. Divine dews!
Not so bad an act, Canada--BOSTON!
Mary's words (in a pajama): "Japan is Drowsy Ram."
Oh, Cy... Spain--amore! Romania? Psycho.
(OberOber)
A man, a peon, a canoe: Panama. (LionInOil)
New Glenrock cops: Spock, Cornel, Gwen. (LionInOil)
Par that Utah trap. (LionInOil)
Ned, go to hot Ogden. (LionInOil)
O Dallas, all ado. (LionInOil)
Reno gal a goner. (LionInOil)
Reno lass a loner. (LionInOil)
No, Wyoming: Nimoy won. (LionInOil)
God, a slap! Paris, sir, appals a dog. (LionInOil)
No "D", no "L", no "N": London. (LionInOil)
Aha, Moses: Omaha! (LionInOil)
A man, a pal, a gala Panama. (LionInOil)
A million in oil --Lima! (LionInOil)
Macedonia in ode, Cam. (LionInOil)
St. Simons: no mists. (LionInOil)
Tan geese line Nile, see gnat. (LionInOil)
O, display Alps; I do! (LionInOil)
In Ikiba, a bikini. (LionInOil)
O, nag not Tonga, no! (LionInOil)
Mad Zeus, not on Suez dam! (LionInOil)
Passion, Illinois sap! (LionInOil)
O, Nevada Dave, no! (LionInOil)
Name "Rome" not on Tiber if a fire bit not one more man. (LionInOil)
Did Baltimore paper omit lab? Did! (LionInOil)
Viva! Let nine to ten in, Tel Aviv! (LionInOil)
Haiku:
Was it felt?
At left
I saw Ukiah.
(LionInOil)
A menacing new rap act:
Evil Japanese Napa J--live! (The Pfef)
On a lot, sir? Bristol a "no." (The Pfef)
Y R U Japanese, Napa jury? (The Pfef)
Not Rome, Morton! (The Pfef)
T. Fossil at Rome: Mortal is soft. (The Pfef)
Re: Ventura--a rut? Never! (Chandra333)
All I saw ere Wasilla. (LWLevit)
Dam made Edam mad. (LWLevit)
Re Cincinnati, OH: Ho! I tannic nicer! (Joni 0812)
Made amoral, Indianapolis! Silo pan aid! Nil--aroma Edam! (Joni 0812)
"Anniston, St. Pure!" said Dias. Said Dias, "Erupts? Not sin! -- Na!"
(Joni 0812)
O, I rat no tat, Ontario! (Petun)
O, ta, Topeka, bake potato! (Petun)
Idaho yoyo had I. (TWoltz)
Sir, a pond erred no Paris. (SchmidtRT)
Now (in a pajama): Japan! I won! (Copykate)
Olson in Oslo (CHjelm9999)
Zeus sees Suez (CHjelm9999)
Monte Carlo gambler, cashing in on big win:
Mais oui; U.O. Siam. (Ottomic)
Oh, a dip up Idaho! (HARDinSD)
Oro or O? (Archan2900)
On Warsaw dock, cod was raw, no? (BHPVD)
Commiserating with frustrated Red Sox enthusiasts:
Snafu? Oy, Boston! O, do not sob, you fans! (Erich W R)
I did not sob, "Boston," did I? (LP FLASH)
Boston, O do not sob! (MSCBELLE, Juno 11276)
-- E. Cox and H. Rathvon, The Atlantic Monthly (Atlantic Unbound), 1996
[ Editor: 2. new items from "A Collection of Favorite Palindromes", a
Web page by Ernie (University of Maryland). ]
"Ma," Jerome raps pot top, "spare more jam!"
No, I save on final perusal--a sure plan, if no evasion.
Panic in a Titanic, I nap.
Todd erases a red dot.
Latin:
Sator Arepo tenet opera rotas. (The sower Arepo works with the help of
a wheel.)
A Nap, a Lamb, ab mal ap ana. (He who is holy shall not nap with lambs)
[ Editor: 3. new items from a list "Palindromes" on a CapitolHill
GeoPage. ]
A new order began, a more Roman age bred Rowena.
The ancient Greeks often put "Nispon anomimata mi monan opsin" on
fountains. It translates as "Wash the sin as well as the face." The
Romans admired palindromes, too, as demonstrated by "In girum imus
nocte et consumimur igni" (We enter the circle after dark and are
consumed by fire"), which was said to describe the action of moths.
An illegitimate palindrome:
Doctor Reubenstein was shocked and dismayed when he answered the
ringing telephone, only to hear a strange, metallic, alien voice say,
"Yasec iovn eilacilla temeg! Nartsa raehoty lnoenoh pelet gnig,
nirehtde rewsnaehn ehw. Deya! Msid! Dnadek cohssaw nietsne buerro,
tcod?
[ Editor: phrases said to sound like other phrases when played
backwards, from a May 1996 thread "Aural (not oral) palindromes" in
rec.puzzles and several games groups. ]
Paul wrote:
> Devo (Mark I-Forget-His-Last-Name) noted that the phrase "Jesus Loves
> You" played backwards sounds like "We Smell Sausage."
This reminds me of a few other -- are they really palindromes, or is
there another word?
Number nine [the Beatles] --> Turn me on, Dead Man
Another one bites the dust [Queen] --> 'Tis fun to smoke marijuana
anyone knows other of these?
-- Laurent Bartholdi <Laurent.Bartholdi@obs.unige.ch>
[ Editor: the text of the Web page "Greg Pontecorvo's Palindrome Page"
(1997), converted from HTML; the pictures are omitted. In the saved
copy every apostrophe appears as "?" (e.g. "I?ve", "You?d"); this is
kept as found. ]
Here are some palindromes I've written over the years:
(All Palindromes (c) Copyright 1997 Greg Pontecorvo, Brizdo Sounds.
All Rights Reserved.)
Lonely tab, a Tylenol.
Are we not devo men, one moved to new era?
Golfing is a sign I flog.
Never odd or even.
Reviled in war, deepest love revolts. Epee drawn, I deliver.
Do I repair an aria period?
No, will I hit some rut? No do I repair an aria? Periodonture, most I
hill I won.
Yo, Hanoi, to Placido, I repair an aria periodical potion ahoy.
He tips it in it. I spit, eh?
No it air Ben is selfless inebriation.
Fir or resign? I keep a food duo, yet a snack can sate. You?d do of a
peeking is error, if?
Eroded ore.
No is I?ve let television.
Droll lunatic, Illinois. I?ve let television illicit a null lord.
Art: Xerox or extra?
No, it can redo modern action.
Revenge, behemoth to both to me he beg never.
Do Greg, Nevada bad avenger god.
Go dreg Nevada, bad avenger dog.
No silly grades a bad rats a bastard abased argyll is on.
No sign in nill. Abe?s a bad rat?s (a bastard). A baseball inning is
on.
Now stack, cat, tacit label sign. It?s along no lasting isle. Baltic
attack cats won.
To Hanoi. so resign it, cadet. Air Ben (I?m Irish). Sir, I?m
inebriated, acting is erosion a hot.
Finish sifting is a sign it fish sin if.
Ted, a cadet, in unused. I spot no sign I?m lackluster fret sulk
calming is on top side sun united a cadet.
Never, eh, to beg a minimum in image bother even.
Red is no crews nag answer consider.
No it cadet fission auger are guano is sifted action.
Tolstoi, die. Kill a total lacks a mask. Call a total like idiots lot.
Too banal. Panama no tip stops Noriega rage. I, Ron, spot spit on a
man, a plan, a boot.
No sneer gone; no greens on.
No we fill lion den. If error response yes no P.S. error refined no ill
life won.
Tin one metal for even sad lost several eons ago don?t fill lion den if
error response yes no P.S. error refined no ill lift no dog as noel are
vests old as never of late men on it.
Evita repositions. No, it is operative.
"No, erode", we sang as a lasagna sewed or eon.
Less even one vessel.
He was a saw, eh?
Drats! A bad elf, it sews a noose. I die soon as we stifled a bastard.
Go far, be glad, rats. A bad elf, it sews a noose. I die soon as we
stifled a bastard algebra fog.
Sex is spastic; it saps sixes.
Revolt in odes use yet on a stack car rack cats a note yes used on it
lover.
Fired no wiser if no byte fastening is a sign I net safety bonfires. I
wonder if.
No I tan as a nation.
Swallow an italian sub in more. Fastening is a sign I net safer omnibus
nail at in AWOL laws.
Sex axes.
Plug AEC input. I palpitate, prod, or pet a tip. Lap it up nice, a
gulp.
Revolt a sign it air Ben is AWOL laws swallow as inebriating is at
lover.
Do not spit an olio spot. Not I did. If I was a slave, I?d embarass
arab medievals. A saw if I did it on topsoil. On a tips to nod.
Spot nose ill. Use gas, use no Jesus. Go, he is Essene. Kill autumnal
plan mutual likenesses (i.e. hogs) use jones usage sullies on tops.
We do not stir or reel fits steel fleets stifle error its to no dew.
Note no niner wren in one ton.
No sat lover did revolt a son.
Ned lost puree erupts olden.
Revenge beg never.
Draught or front never prism arcs a scram sir prevent nor froth guard.
Spastic I drone unit no crop or continue nordic it saps.
Spastic I drone unit no cross or continue nordic it saps.
Yell or trek over a revoker trolley.
Track cart yell or trek over a revoker trolley track cart.
Trap a cadet in use. I let at, see, no bats. I fret fast. I beg all, I
vote. Veto village bits after fist. A
bone estate lies united a cap art.
Too rosy as I fill a tie soldier. A fare I?d lose it all if I say, so
root.
Now sign (i.e. yes) send a medic. I?m regret fall. It?s a sign I, too
rosy, as if I say so. Rooting is a still after germicide madness;
eyeing is won.
Draw, delay ore, kill a germicide madness. Send a medic. I?m regal like
royal Edward.
Rap a nose rug. If set, a hernia precludes used ulcer pain rehates
figures on a par.
Tim or Fred, do say no to them. I held no foot if fin silly grasps
argyll. I sniff, I too, fondle him, eh to Tony as odder from it.
Sin: its a sign I wail a tin egg, I buoy you big. Genitalia wing is as
tin is.
Knife tarot to rate fink.
Tim or Fred, no, we fill less evil lives. Sell life, wonder from it.
Won sad eel, be none. See glee ride if I design, I garnish sin. Raging
is edified; I reel geese, none bleed as now.
Slap no tided ire. Dig no Rastafarian air. A fat sarong, I derided it
on pals.
Race car derailed a red. No wonder a deli a red race car.
Yo bro, dog nudnik. Pandas sad napkin dung odor boy.
No sore zone, no gypsy spy gone, no zero son.
You be porcine, guesses soperific if ire possess eugenic rope buoy.
No put on a gloss. I kill Abe, yet I felt bus nose lure Sue. Use rules
on subtle fit eyeball. I kiss Olga, not upon.
DNA, help misfit. No we held Dawn or Eve. No sore zone, no gypsy spy
gone, no zero, so never.
On waddle he won?t, if simple hand.
No will I kiss a crack carcass? I kill, I won.
Stark summaries use. I ram muskrats.
No we fill lion den. Rut error, or returned, no ill life won.
Stop some dynamo deer. Feel frog, or flee freedom any demo spots.
Do gnome duo yet. Is opposer god? I can rob, but stones use not
stubborn acid ogres opposite you, demon god.
Pilfer a senile sum. I fare stupid I put serafim use. Lines are flip.
Mirth saw a snag go both. Tolstoi, did I put stupid idiot sloth
toboggans awash trim?
Une dure tire venue jeune verite rude nu.
Do stop anon. Rub red nicotine ergo no green. I, to cinder, burn on a
pot sod.
Eva will I? Wrong no slang is a signal song, nor will I wave.
To leg awe, no slam or fail a gerbil. Dare we stone no tenor drone tone
(not sewer adlib) regalia from also new age lot?
Bar cadet radio. I darted a crab.
Noise leg asset are calypso. Spy lacerates sage lesion.
No we fill last open I rule to help miser I do not bar greedy deer grab
to no dire simple hotel urine pots all life won.
To nod if idle, if a raft first, setting is a sign it tests rift far
afield, if I do not.
Red rot. Sell at tallest order.
Go fret fare cluster germ regrets. Ulcer after fog.
Bird rats. A blade prevented a cadet. Never pedal bastard rib.
Poor distressed sad eye, no help. Pasta eats apple, honeyed as desserts
I droop.
Worst, I felt it?s alive. Do not pull a plug, distressed sad eye. No
help, pasta eats apple honeyed as desserts I?d gulp all up to no devil
as title fits row.
No pussy: bad dose if I dedicate, yet acid edifies odd abyss upon.
Never of sex or extra, eh? Tacit song an aria. No bedlam, Ron, bad
abnormal debonair. An agnostic at heart xeroxes for even.
Spastic in omen my cab I lecture. Not one rut celibacy mnemonic it
saps.
Do get a motel first. Sent silica in a memo, stilted a cadet, lit some
maniac. I list nests? rifle to mate God.
We fuel a void art radio. Spill eye no more hydrology. Go, lordy, hero.
Money ellipsoid art radio value few.
Spill wooden in middle. He won. No, we held dim nine. Do owl lips?
Tied, I ride it.
Do not sign it. Tory rots boss. I am all tied; I ride it. Llama is sob
story, rotting is to nod.
Boss to idiot: do not sign it. Tory rots boss. I am all tied; I ride
it. Llama is sob story; rotting is to nod to idiots sob.
Race car rot or race car.
God, palomino regret tubs. Sold loss, butter, Geronimo lap dog.
No peer cotton signing is error, or resigning is not to creep on.
Spots sew or possess. I, her tits I felt, Ruth. Turtle fist it rehisses
so prowess tops.
Worst dim nine, ergo green in midst row.
No I tone garaged albino ton. I blade garage notion.
Nail at, in a deli, a jewel cat?s boffo. Do not peek, eyes are drums,
as murder as eye. Keep to nod off, obstacle, we jailed an Italian.
Pat no fill, Aesop, rupture not in one pod. No pea, glasnost is it
son?s algae pond. Open on it one rut purpose all if on tap.
Too sec, if one meld, no free jazz. I profit on gig as is. Is a gig not
I for pizza? Jeer, fondle men of ice soot.
No, trod off in sea glare. I?d lost soldier algae sniff odor ton.
Gums rot at, I miss, I kill afar, gain notoriety. Bad day, add a byte I
rot on Niagra Fall. I kiss imitators mug.
Kind unto I. Did I put snuff? It?s a sign it tests a last setting. Is a
stiff unstupid idiot nudnik.?
Stun no pupil. utter germ saps a spasm. Regret tulip upon nuts.
Dogs, I go. Don?t nail a veil, locates sanitary rat in asset. A collie,
valiant, no dog is god.
No it is open on one position.
Track cops are dim. I trek or brew. Open one power broker, timid era
Spock cart.
No, I slum. Eye no help, masticate tacit sample honey emulsion.
Gift, Figaro, no don?t fight a poet son. One vessel, no, I, to media
several I miss. Is sipping a bag nip? Piss is similar, Eve said,
emotionless, even on osteopath gift no donor, a gift fig.
Snob, big nose gargantuan, or Tsar astronaut? Nag rages on gibbons.
Stiff ode, roman. Eye no help. Met a tacit song, an aria, sad loco
shots or footsteps I host, so lost. So his pets, too, frost, oh so cold
as air. An agnostic at a temple, honey, enamored of fits.
Ere he began, no, Troy rots. I help misfit. Now harass a snob big nose
gargantuan or Tsar astronaut. Nag rages on gibbons, as Sarah won?t if
simple history or tonnage be here.
Won?t I sign it? I design, I gap, depose garlic nets as a stencil
rages. Op-ed paging is editing, is it now?
No story, no beef, far ignoring is a sign iron giraffe ebony rots on.
We felt busses UFO glare. Vests a veil, loose lips pile so Ollie, vast,
several go fuses subtle few.
We dare. Sun ray, stinky, do bad rays. Emitting is a sign. It times
yard. A body knits yarn, user a dew.
Stack cord ebony. No, bedrock cats.
Story raid, a foe craft rid. Say a bon mot to Boston. Still, it?s not
NY. Wynton, still it?s not so.
Bottom, no bay, as dirt farce of a diary rots.
Top stew, a sign I work. Sailed a ticklish silk citadel. I ask, rowing
is a wet spot?
Red now, for even era. Cotton rode vast, a cat, feline, ergo green. I
left a cat, saved or not, to care never of wonder.
Red dudes are fine. Melt, Negro opera snob. Big fist sets a title flair
to no trial, felt it as tests, if gibbons are poor gentlemen, if
erased, udder.
Spasms, a crass dog era in Illinois, I?ve let no radar on television,
Illini are gods, sarcasm saps.
We no got no tips. Aging is a sign I gasp it on to go new.
Too still, I give it to hoser, if no bad rats. A buoy noses on, you
bastard, a bonfire so hot, tie vigil lit soot.
No, we nod. Do fill up desserts, I do not sing, I say bye. No money by
a sign is to no distressed pull if odd one won.
Debase, sullen, no do not lessen, dim it, timidness. Elton O?Donnell
uses a bed.
Strap, rose, if it certified iron. No, ride if it rectifies or parts.
Cain, I am deified mainiac.
Nail a tip. Use milk carton era. Set art infidels immature. No one rut,
am misled if nitrates are not rack limes up Italian.
Revolt illuminates a bat egg. No gong, get a base tan. I mull it,
lover.
Back no hotel sign. I rip sad eye. No Haiti hatred. Lessen it?s a
nastiness. Elder Tahiti, a honeyed aspiring isle to honk cab.
Dogs are wolfen. I play a dynamo deer. Freedom, any day, alpine flower
as god.
Harpoon, still it?s fine design. It pure rot I, for perusal, a sure
profit or erupting is Eden if still. It?s no Oprah.
Won raft, so let at see rut. So play or fill a sub. In most I felt it
fits. I go lot, no regret tub for or of butter gerontologist. If title
fits omnibus, all if royal posture estate lost far now.
Made fast a welfare self. I refill a rut. Luck, calm rift, firm lack,
cultural life rifles era flew at safe dam.
Goddess or cat? I stab revolt lover. Bat?s it a crossed dog,
Work cuts still unfit eye. Tonto, I did. I put snow ions. No, I won
stupid idiot. Note yet, if null, it?s stuck row.
Stunt actors rot cat nuts.
No will, it?s still unfit. Net no clammy, no peel, die soon royal phony
ad rut. Assess a pain, a medic
I?m regret fare. I?d lose soldier after germicide mania passes.
Saturday Noh play or noose idle eponym malcontent if null it?s still I
won.
Goddess Arab mess or call a muse. So help massage my tit, Ned. Identity
me, gas sample hose. Sum all across embarassed dog.
Dim it, fits a plan if tacit songs are sung. I was iron (is a sign in
mad goddess). Arab men embarassed dog. Damning is a sin or is a wing
user as gnostic at final past if timid.
No it can redo my visit, if simple. Help push saw as poor Troy rots. I
help made one poetic error or recite open OED. Ample history or troops
awash, supple help misfit is ivy modern action.
Gods are it, Santa Claus. A casual cat nastier as dog.
My no pesto pasta or display .No, before I?d lose soldier of ebony
alps, I?d roast a post eponym.
Satire veritas.
Degauss a synopsis is pony?s assuaged.
Slam in a stupor. Terrorism saps a spasm, sir, or retro puts animals.
No drape faces on. Sara flirts on a stellar eve. Still I give no flack
cat. Tall Abe?s a baseball attack calf. One vigil lit several, lets a
nostril far as nose cafe pardon.
Go let at, see no grey alps. A halo I?ve no one. Viola has player gone
estate log.
Worst act a role to help misfit. New York Roy went, if simple hotel or
at cats row.
Worst fists, if Noriega?s a man. A plan, a canal, Panama?s age iron
fist sifts row.
Evil still a spasm. Regret fall I knell. USA sits if Noriega ran. Is a
man, a plan, a canal? Panama?s in a rage iron fist is a sullen kill
after germ saps all its live.
Fixes refastens net. Safer sex if?
No we fill aerosol. Let socks at fixes refasten net. Safer sex if task,
Costello, so real life won.
"Flask?s a flowery pyre", wolf asks Alf.
Resoldered nerd rendered loser.
Spit not. Some cadet raped a departed ace. most on tips.
Night, abandoned on an isle, we jam all night. I, with gin llama
jewels, in an ode. No DNA bath gin.
Golden made Yes pill a No. I tar ridicule lucid irrational lips eye
damned log.
Stack cat tail light. I will, I with gill, I attack cats.
Not salt a sign. I do or be damned. I am a maiden made. Brooding is at
last on.
Reflog a miserable tome. No one motel bares. I?m a golfer.
No wiser god aborts agnostic. I bore an aloof fool. Anaerobic, it?s on
gastro bad ogres I won.
No sail sloops, secret life of a foe. Filter cesspool?s liason.
Sex, I?m a nut. No sex, every lyre vexes on tuna mixes.
Still, if sex attracts, a fast cart taxes fill its.
Slam in a net forever often animals.
Daft fight, row still, if sex attracts, a fast cart taxes. Fill its
worth, gift fad.
Stray a wasp or drag us. No, defy a plan if sex is DNA. Repossess
operand, sixes? final pay fed on sugar drops away arts.
Won?t negate, let agent now.
Sex ,if no evil. One dragnet to relapse I revere reveries pale rotten
garden olive on fixes.
"Tolstoi, did I assail an alias", said idiot?s lot.
Sin aid an Acadian. Aid a Canadian is.
Debase wet bed. A diaper repaid a debt, ewes a bed.
Net for a case, no handles. Deficits, it rates a set. Artistic, if
Edsel DNA hones a car often.
Trade Miami, help Martians second no Cessna. I trample him aimed art.
No desserts. I do not straddle. I felt table to hotel battlefield,
darts to no distressed on.
No it ropes a base portion.
Muse no note nor prone pose. Yes it is muses. Revere my revered nude
bed under every mere verse. Sums it is eyes open or prone to none sum.
Wolf den, no, drag deficits. I trade gruff irate tariff, urged
artistic, if Edgar donned flow.
Emit no late pyre wolf den. No, drag deficits I trade. Gruff irate
tariff urged artistic if Edgar donned flowery petal on time.
Trade cartons if fur. Greedy, no bed. Eye no hotels in aid. An Acadian,
aid a Canadian isle to honeyed ebony. Deer gruff is no traced art.
No I sired six estates, set at sex is derision.
Refill latter germ regret tall lifer.
No sail a sloop, spools a liason.
Burn, Madonna, fondle her of ebony. No, before held no fan, no damn
rub.
Garlic nets a stencil rag
Design, it?s Ulster German, am regrets lusting is Ed.
My not naming is a sign I?m antonym.
Not sold, no cesspool loops second lost on.
Air a myth, guano. naughty Maria.
Sum or freebase rut. Celtics C it lectures a beer from us.
So lose, no not race, of a foe car to none solos.
Retract Carter.
No wing is a sign I won.
Ave Maria, I ram Eva.
He lives in it, up Sara. Rasputin is evil, eh?
Oh, Camelot stole macho.
No, we fill a coffee reef. Focal life won.
No, pupil rep, puff. It?s not federal like we kill a red eft on stiff
upper lip upon.
Revolt felt left lover.
Revolt felt at left lover.
Un poco bore, Robocop, nu?
Raft one, no, get saws. No, they fix other, eh. Toxify, eh, tons waste
gone, not far.
No, I to me. Nod, Doc, it?s a crash. Sarcastic odd one motion.
Part: a sign I?d done Moses. Use, yet are velcro snaps pans, or clever
at eyes. Use some, nodding is a trap.
No melon, no lemon.
Worst egg, Nola?s. Go, Jeff, a right I with. Giraffe jogs along, gets
row.
Till I, Ajax, if I fix a jail, lit.
I made both to Barbara Ewing. Is a sign I wear a bra, both to bed, am
I?
One cued a deuce, no?
No, we fill aerosol. O, so real life won.
One garb, musuem. It?s a gnome, lets at spill aerosol. O so real lips
taste lemon gas. Time us umbrage, no.
No, it art life filtration.
Dim it, hey. Rot a gored llama. I am all derogatory, eh, timid.
Noon tasks abuse vises so possesive sub asks at noon.
Reverend rags, Gardner ever.
Not Wendell, I filled Newton.
Do regal lips pillage Rod?
Testing is a sign it set.
No I zero my lilac, a lily more Zion.
Star wars is raw rats.
No it a caveman, name vacation.
To held. Duck cabaret falling nill after a back cuddle hot.
Fix Indian aid, nix if.
Fleecing is a sign, ice elf.
On stage beg armor, frets yon oyster from rage: begats no.
El truth turtle.
Drawl a royal error or relay oral ward.
Eyes, if fit, no possesser predictions. No, it cider presses so pontiff
is eye.
Do promulgate. Get a glum or pod.
To help pan an apple hot.
Evil on one vest, salting is a sign it lasts, even on olive.
Yell or trolley.
No left felon.
Wonder, evil Eden, on stage. Beg armor, frets yon oyster, from rage.
Begats none, delivered now.
No, it can redo my revelations. No, I tale very modern action.
Net for one garlic, Neptune nut pencil rage nor often.
Spot strafing is a sign, if art stops.
Despot strafing is a sign, if art stops Ed.
Never of bar devil on one vest. Salting is a sign it lasts, even on
olive drab for even.
Bus or camel car. I?m a nut, robust sub, or tuna miracle macro sub.
Beware sniper. It laid a radial tire, pins era web.
Has tar come? Do, democrats, ah.
Tin is in Israel. Cunning is a sign. In nuclear sin is in it.
Evil in Israel, cunning is a sign in nuclear sin I live.
Stun one, I reversed ode?s reverie, no nuts.
No sign if first fight. I with gifts, riffing is on.
Note, yes a bass I kiss, a base yet on.
Note, yes, a ball I kill, a bale yet on.
Go denim, resign it, Lassie is salting. Is ermine dog?
Stencil eagle on Noel Gaelic nets.
Sullen, no domicile age. Gaelic, I?m O?Donnell, us.
Gods top severed ire. Rider Eve spots dog.
Dogs top severed ire. Rider Eve spots God.
Tacit cat net to rams. A crass sarcasm, a rotten tactic at.
Trucks ask Curt.
Revote, both saw as tar, come do democrats awash to bet over.
God, stop severe dire rider. Eve spots dog.
God stops Eve (red ire rider). Eve spots dog.
Top nose, fifth gin, dims midnight fifes on pot.
No we lure fifth gin, dim?s midnight fife rule won.
Tack Cosmo, specific. A pariah, Deirdre, her alias. Sail are her dried
hair, a pacific epsom sock cat.
Do get aid, arrivals. Asks are poor. Trooper asks a Slav, irradiate
God.
A sable I knife. No one fin, Kielbasa.
But set on Oz ,obey noise law or grow a lesion, ye bozo note stub.
Knee ten in no ten. Integrates a base, target nine ton nineteen K.
Do of all it?s evident, Ned, I?ve still a food.
Soil of tropical, ill, lilac I portfolios.
Lived as a recluse, yes, ulcer, as a devil.
Flee mongrel, like killer gnome elf.
None, so hen I plan. If raw data spasm ran, I flee, mongrel-like.
Killer gnome elf in arm saps at a dwarf in alpine hosen on.
Rifles design it set for exile. Did elixer of testing is Edsel fir?
Kramer, at elicits a crash sarcastic. I let a remark.
No, with gin not. I set a Gorbachev, also Slav, eh? C abrogates it on
night I won.
No we fill lawyer psoriasis. Is air osprey wall life won?
Now fill a lot. I regret farting is smut. Ceramic, I?m a rectum?s sign.
It rafter geritol all if won.
No noose, portugese boss or cadet. Are astral arts aerated across obese
gut rope soon on?
Here, it?s a not tidy rat in a state, yet am I natural? Life?s use,
fill a rut, animate. Yet at sanitary ditto nastier eh?
Do get a rifle. Still, in Israel, cunning is a sign. In nuclear sin,
ill itself, irate God.
Do get a rifle, still ill itself, irate God.
Top anisette rag I confided is bus. Cain, a medic, I?m regret fat, Ono
trek, a fast is. An apple has live debt, bedevils a help pan as its
faker to not. After germicide maniac subsided, if no cigarettes in a
pot.
We sew figures. Use rug if we sew.
No I tan, I mull lit lovers revolt, ill lumination.
No I tan, I mull it. Lovers? revolt illumination.
Burn a base tan. I mull it, lovers? revolt illuminates a ban rub.
A bless, I kill a foe raw. A misuse if ill, une film noir. Race carrion
M life nullifies us. I?m aware of all, I kiss Elba.
To sip piss is simple, help Mississippi sot.
Lab Olga is sure. No, for astral let star at stellar Tsar of one Russia
global.
We do no green, I flee from raft. A flab Olga is sure, no, for astral
let start rat stellar Tsar of one
Russia. Global fat farm, or feel fine, ergo no dew.
Tim or football lab, too, from it.
One mildew angst, its gnawed lime no.
Do not stifle, stab mildew angst, its gnawed limb at self, it?s to nod.
Worst septet, corrupt a cat, purr octet pests row.
He risks a bidet in use. It?s an era, flew dial, set at sex, if fading
is a sign I?d affix estates. Laid welfare nasties united, I bask, sir,
eh?
Do get a tip. Lap it up nineteen knee ten input, I palpitate God.
Albatross or canary ran across, or tabla.
Do go to gonnorhea, eh Ron? No, go to God.
No sign. I radar a jazz Ajax. A jazz, a jar, a daring is on.
No Sonya waded a fat roast. Ned, or to help miss as Tarzan raised Desi
Arnaz? rats as simple hot
rodents? aorta faded away, no son.
Dog siren. I ram abuser, if not I won keen knee. Know it on fire, sub,
a mariner is God.
Sex I felt, ?til sad ruts sort a blades net. No, put it, fill, listen
to no slain Ed?s denial, so not nets. I?ll lift it upon tensed
albatross turd as little fixes.
Do get at, seek a flat. I packs a straw, fits a Polish silo. Past if
warts ask capital fake estate god.
Worst silt left it. Ah, to sip piss is simple. Help Mississippi so that
it felt lists row.
Niagra bargain.
Scram or flee. Hernia grabs bargain, reheel from arcs.
Gods are its annex, Alf. Lee, herd ewe. I verify fire, viewed reheel
flaxen nastier as dog.
Ties are mod, lest I held demigod?s dog, I meddle, hit seldom, erase
it.
I maimed. Is nine men inside Miami?
Worst fish to me, he bade I lied. Sung a stiff ode was seen. Knowing is
sign I won knees, sawed off. Its Agnus Dei lied, a behemoth sifts row.
Pee, do sparrow, or rare it sang no last fish to me. He behemoth sifts
a long nastier arrow or rap so deep.
Pee, do sparrow or rare it sang no last fish to me. He bade I lied,
sung a stiff ode. Was seen, knowing is a sign I won knees sawed off.
Its Agnus Dei lied a behemoth sifts a long nastier arrow or rap so
deep.
No with gin, say no. Benign, I speed, o sparrow, or rap so deep, sing
in ebony, as night I won.
No with gin, say no. Benign, I speed, o sparrow, or rare. It sang no
last fish to me. He bade I lied, sung a stiff ode was seen. Knowing is
a sign I won knees sawed off. Its Agnus Dei lied, a behemoth sifts a
long nastier arrow or rap so deep, sing in ebony, as night I won.
Debit senility as a signing is a say ?til I nest, I bed.
No eye no metal eroded. I cede we cued a deuce. We decided or elate
money eon.
Scrap, see yes no it I trap partitions. Eye ESP arcs.
Tie, blast cafe caffeine, sir. Risen, I efface facts albeit.
Tit felt it spill a tip so hospital lips tit left it.
Bar an Arab, red. No, we kill Libya, say Bill, like wonder, bar an
Arab.
One nut pencil or feud. No freeplay or royal peer fondue frolic,
Neptune, no.
Sign it, I design it. Torsos rotting is editing is.
Do not sign it, I design it. Torsos rotting is editing is to nod.
Diagnoses use song aid.
Sign I diagnosed it several are vest idesong aiding is.
No, I tax every pyre vexation.
We still listen. Games use magnets, ill lit sew.
Warm regrets, I still listen. Games use magnets. Ill lit sister, germ
raw.
All Palindromes (c) Copyright 1997 Greg Pontecorvo, Brizdo Sounds.
All Rights Reserved.
Other interesting palindrome sites [ Editor: links on the page;
their addresses are not in the saved copy ]:
Alexey V. Andreyev's long palindrome poem
The Palindrome Home Page
The Palindrome Box
List of other palindrome links
If you want, send me some more palindromes at gregp@sky.net
-- Greg Pontecorvo <gregp@sky.net>
[ Editor: the A-E part of Christoph Enzinger's list "reciprocal
palindromes a-e" <leo@cosy.sbg.ac.at>, whose f-m and n-z parts are in
the entry above. Lines identical to lines already in this entry (or
in the archive palindromes entry and language/international.palindromes)
are left out, as are the Panama palindromes of Jim Saxe, Guy Jacobson,
Guy Steele and Dan Hoey given above; items already present with a
different source note or slight variation are kept, so some repeat.
The numbers in parentheses are source codes whose key is not in the
collected part of the list; long items are kept on one line as in the
list. ]
reciprocal palindromes a-e
Able was I ere I saw Elba. (1821)
A Bob in Iniboba. (Maurice Abay-Abay)
A coup d'etat saved devastated Puoca. (Richard G. Smith)
Address of Emil Otto Lime: Fosse Rd., DA.
A dog! A panic in a pagoda! (8)
A dog, a pant, a panic in a Patna Pagoda. (12)
A dog, a plan, a canal: pagoda! (isthmus project redesigned, 3)
A dum reb was I ere I saw Bermuda. (Napoleon marooned on a different island, 3)
A fool, a tool, a pool; LOOPALOOTALOOFA!
A fool, Reta W., was I ere I saw Waterloofa.
Ah, Aristides opposed it, sir, aha! (15)
Ah, Satan, derogating Nita, hating Nita, gored Natasha. (13)
Ah, Satan, dog-deifier! (Oh who reified God, Natasha?) (13)
Ah, Satan, no smug smirk rims gums on Natasha. (13)
Ah, Satan sees Natasha. (15)
Ah, Satan, shall a devil deliver Hannah? Reviled lived Allah's Natasha! (13)
Allah, lave Valhalla! (A pious Moslem speaks, 16)
All erotic, I lose my lyme solicitor, Ella. (15)
All in all, its still a Nilla. (evilmike evilmike@ix.netcom.com)
Al lets Della call Ed Stella. (15 / 8)
Am a Jap, Pajama. (3)
A man, a plan, a butt tub. Anal Panama!
Am a Jap sniper, Repins Pajama. (3)
A man, a plan, a canal - Panama! (15)
A man, a plan, a palindrome: Emordnilapanalpanama! (Mark Lyttle)
Amen, enema! (18)
Amiable was I ere I saw Elba, Ima. (3)
Amusing is that company of fond people bores people fond of company that is amusing.
Analytic Paget saw an inn in a waste-gap city, Lana. (15)
Ana, nab a banana. Jody Wilson jkwilson@bu.edu
A Nap, a Lamb, ab mal ap ana. (He who is holy shall not nap with lambs.)
A new order began, a more Roman age bred Rowena. (11)
Animal loots foliated detail of stool lamina. (16)
An insipid dip is Nina. (Dustin Morris <dgm@columbia.edu>)
Anne, I stay a day at Sienna. (15)
Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna. (15)
A Nut for a jar of tuna. (18)
A pain - a blast - ah, that's Albania, Pa! (John Connett <john-c@gopher.ccbr.umn.edu>)
A pre-war dresser drawer, Pa! (Bob Rosenberg)
Arden saw I was Nedra. (15)
A relic, Odin! I'm a mini, docile Ra.
Are poets at oddness's end? Do taste opera! (18)
Are we not drawn onwards, we Jews, drawn onward to new era? (15)
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era? (Willard Espy)
Are we not, Rae, near to new era? (15)
A rod, not a bar, a baton, Dora. (15)
A Santa at NASA. (1)
"Asi, Buenos Dias!" said Son Eubisa.
A slut nixes sex in Tulsa. (8)
A tin mug for a jar of gum, Nita? (Robert Adams <radams@discover.wright.edu>)
A tip: save eva's pita. (5)
A Toyota.
A Toyota! Race fast, safe car. A Toyota.
A woman, a plan, a canal: Panamowa! (3)
"Ball-Litigate-Paste" lab. Balet's ape! Tag it! I'll lab! (1)
Ban campus motto, "Bottoms up, MacNab." (15)
Ben -ah! A mop, a plan, a cat, a pagan, a bat, a rat, a bog, an oil, an
amen, a valley, a gala, snaps, snips, pots, a trace-pan, a dog, a top, a
nitride, moss, tacks, a calla, banal caps, an anus, a pus, a burg, a
liar, a lever, a dumb mob, a gum, a room, a doom, a tram, a door, a
drib, a drab, a yard, a drawer, a reel, a bin, a tar-gob, a sis, a bale,
crap, a rag, a gnat, a leek, a sleep, sloops, Tums, a nut, a gat, a leg,
a pit, a gulp, a reed, evil stinky rots, a nod, a Paganini, sad locales,
sap, a cod, a woc, damsels, iron, imarets, a nail, a Dali, an aster, a
minor, isles, mad cow, a doc, a passel, a cold, a sin in a gap, a don, a
story, knits, live deer, a plug, a tip, a gel, a tag, a tuna, smut,
spools, peels, a keel, a tang, a gar, a parcel, a basis, a bog-rat, a
nib, a leer, a reward, a dray, a bard, a bird, a rood, a mart, a mood, a
moor, a mug, a bomb, mud, a revel, a rail, a grub, a sup, a sun, an asp,
a call, a cask, cats, some dirt in a pot, a god, an ape-cart, a stop,
spins, spans, a lag, a yell, a vane-man, a lion, a gob, a tar, a tab, a
nag, a pat, a canal, pap - Omaha, Neb.! (John Connett <john-c@blueox.ccbr.umn.edu>)
Big albino - red row order on Iblagib. (1)
Blowjob was I ere I saw Bojwolb.
Blub golf radar flog bulb (1)
Bob: "Did Anna peep?" Anna: "Did Bob?" (15)
Bob! No! ...and gams-la-nerf, renal smag DNA on Bob... (1)
Bog dirt up a sidetrack carted is a putrid gob. (15)
Bolt Alps, smite Tim's... Splat! Lob! (1)
Bombard a drab mob. (8)
Bonk! One Mac. Newton sees not wen came (no knob)
.Bush saw Sununu swash sub.
But live dogma - I am god - evil tub! (1)
But regusa store, babe, rots a sugar-tub. (A supercilious grocer, 10)
Butte (pre-wombat)
, tab-mower pet tub. (6)
Butt tub.
Better genie ebb? Arg! Grab bee in egret tub! (1)
Butter genie ebb? ARG! Grab bee in egret tub! (1)
Camus sees sumac. (2)
Care, Mac! No! Putrid! Gag dirt upon camera c! (1)
Castle Moat: Lag a nut - Tuna gal, "Tao-Melt-Sac!" (1)
Cigar? Toss it in a can, it is so tragic.
Craci portion, o' got bac, cab to go... No! I "tropic arc"! (1)
Daedalus: nine, Peninsula: dead. (2)
D.A.: Ed's pets brag; a garb steps - dead! (1)
Damosel, a poem? A carol? Or a cameo pale? (So mad!) (15)
Damp Macedonia truck curtain ode: Camp Mad. (6)
Dan... Ogre! El "tot" sir, Aristotle... er, GONAD! (1)
Dare I VAX on no Xavier ad? (6)
Dare, pagan flea? Elf nag ape! Rad! (1)
Love is this and this is love (2)
Darling, my love
Is great, so great;
Recalling Heaven's calm above.
Fate is sweet this-
All after Fall!
Fall? After all,
This, sweet, is fate-
Above calm Heaven's recalling.
Great, so great is
Love, my darling!
Dear, be glad.. a hardy hydra had algebra, ed. (18)
Debase wedlock, cabaret tuba. Hades! A bed a fire wolfed! So - did ye known, Eva, his pilar bed? Sex of lepers nor pariahs, aloof, debase wedlock; Cold ewes abed, Naomi, debase. Ye kiss, I know, Eva, his pilar bed foliated mossily (Sordid Norah's goldenrod-adorned log)
. "Sharon, did rosy lissom detail of Debra - Lips I have won - kiss Ike?" "Yes - abed!" I moan. Debase wedlock, cold ewes abed. Fool! As hair aprons repel foxes, Debra - lips I have won - key didos deflower, If a debased Ahab utter aback Cold ewes abed. ("Cold Ewes", 13)
Decal: "Lord Elf Fart Raffle" - droll! Aced? (1)
Deep Star Six: axis rat speed (18)
Deer flee freedom in Oregon? No, Geronimo - deer feel freed. (11)
Deer frisk, sir, freed. (15)
Dee saw a seed.
Degas, are we not drawn onward, we freer few, drawn onward to new eras aged? (15)
"Degenerate Moslem, a cad!" Eva saved a camel so Meta reneged. (15)
Degenerating, I do maim - assail, alienating Nita. I came, fleecing Nita - I dare ululating Nita. Rape's era now is gelatinating; Nita, I've done no deviating. Nita! Nita! Legs I won are separating! Nita Lulu - eradiating nice elf - emaciating Nita, Neil, alias Sam, I am! O dig? (Nita reneged!) (13)
Delia and Edna ailed. (15)
Delia, here we nine were hailed. (15)
Delia sailed as a sad Elias ailed. (11)
Delia sailed, Eva waved, Elias ailed. (15)
Delia saw I was ailed.
Delia's debonair dahlias, poor, drop or droop. Sail, Hadrian; Obed sailed. (15)
"Deliver desserts", demanded Nemesis, "emended, named, stressed, reviled." (15)
Deliver no evil, avid diva I saw die. Render an unsung aria for erotogenic id. O never egg Alec Naif, fairer Edna Waterfall, A nonassimilative, volatile reef-dweller - apparelless brag! Natasha I saw die, render an unsung aria. For Edna Waterfall - a liar - familiar feuds live: Dastard Ogre and Edna! Pupils, one tacit song or poem - or didos deft. Celestial lives (Ida rapt as Naomi) Laud smegma, alas - keep never a frondlet on. So did no solo snoop malign Irised sad eyen. Oh dewes yen - Oh tressed May noon, hello! Tacit songs rev! Love's barge of assent carts base tarts, A cerise deb abed, unreined flesh. Sin - a viand - Edna sees and Edna has, Or bust fossettes, or redder rosettes. Soft sub-rosa hand Edna sees, And, Edna, I vanish - self-denier! Nude babe, desire castrates abstractness. A foe grabs Evolver's Gnostic Atoll, eh? No! On, yam (dessert-honeydewed), honeyed as desiring! I lampoon solos on didos. Not eld nor far (Even peek! "Salaam, gems dual", I moan) Sat Paradise Villa, its elect fed. So did Romeo prognosticate no slip up, And Edna, ergo, drats a devil's due: "Frail! I'm a frail all a-fret, a-wander! O fair Agnus nun, a red Nereid was I. Ah, Satan, garb's seller, Apparel (lewd fee) relit a love vital I miss anon. All a-fret, a wanderer I affiance - Lagger even odic - in ego "torero". Fair Agnus nun, a red Nereid was I. Avid diva, live on reviled." ("EDNA WATERFALL", 2)
Deliver no evil, live on reviled. (2)
Delivery reviled. (9)
Del saw a sled.
Denim axes examined. (8)
Den made live Roman kayak? Na! More vile, damned! (1)
Dennis Krats and Edna Stark sinned. (Professor R. Osseforp)
Dennis, Nell, Edna, a Mr. Idi Amin Dada, Dad-n-I, Maid Irma, and Ellen sinned.
Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida, Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina, Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl, Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden, Noel, and Ellen sinned.
Dennis, no misfit can act if Simon sinned. (15)
Deny me not; atone, my Ned. (15)
Desserts I desire not, so long no lost one rise distressed. (10)
Dew, eh, creep? Flat it! Alf? Peer Chewed! (1)
Did Dean aid Diana? Ed did. (15)
Did Hannah say as Hannah did? (15)
Did Hannah see bees, Hannah did. (4)
Did I, ameliorating Nita, roil Ema? I did. (13)
Did I, debating, Nita dating, Nita bed? I did. (13)
Di, did I as I said I did? (15)
Did I do, O God, did I as I said I'd do? Good, I did! (15)
Did I draw Della too tall, Edward? I did. (11 / 15)
Did Ione take Kate? No, I did. (11 / 15)
Did I strap red nude, red rump, also slap murdered underparts? I did!
Did you say we are dead, Bob? Ahaha, Bob, dead, are you? Yes, we did. (phonetic palindrome, 2)
Dill lung, I became mace - big null lid. (1)
DNA-land
Doc note, I dissent, a fast never prevents a fatness, I diet on cod. (Penelope Gilliat or Richard Power, from the novel "Prisoner's Dilemma")
Dog, as a devil deified, lived as a god. (15)
Dog-deifiers reified God! (13)
Dogma: I am god.
Dog deifiers reified God. (4)
Do God!
Dog one for his red nose (besonders ihr Ofen), o God! (Jost Gippert)
Do good? I? No! Evil anon I deliver: I maim nine more hero-men in Saginaw; sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I--lo!--rack, cut a drowsy rat in Aswan; I gas nine more hero-men in Miami; reviled I (Nona) live on. I do, O God! (Wallechinsky, D.; Wallace, I.; and Wallace, A., 1977)
Do Good's deeds live on? No, Evil's deeds do, O God. (15)
Do grammar, God! (Hilary Woodward <hcwoodward@osprey.smcm.edu>)
Dog simulation at pallid Bush sub dill. Apt... a, no... it... alum is god! (7)
"Do nine men interpret?" "Nine men", I nod. (11 / 15)
Do not start at rats to nod. (11 / 15)
Do, O God, no evil deed, live on, do good. (12)
Doom an evil deed, liven a mood. (15)
Doom, royal panic, I mimic in a play or mood. (15)
Dora tendered net, a rod. (15)
Dot saw I was Tod.
Dot sees Tod.
Dou quod (a prison holding Dutch painter Gerard Dou)
Drab as a fool, as aloof as a bard. (15)
Drab Reg, no longer bard. (15)
Dracula's Alu-Card. (Christoph Schwarz)
Dr. Ana, Cataracts. Uranium enema smarts if fist rams, Amen! Emu in a rust car at a canard.
Draught nine men in th' guard. (16)
Draw - aye, no melody - dole-money award. (15)
Draw no deep speed onward. (6)
Draw no dray a yard onward. (15)
Draw, O Caeser, erase a coward. (15)
Draw, o coward! (15)
Draw pupil's lip upward. (10)
Draw pupil's pup's lip upward. (15)
Dumb mud
Ed aced a decade. (9)
Ed: a general, a renegade. (9)
Ed is on no side.
Editor rubs ward, draws burro tide. (3)
Eel-fodder, stack-cats red do flee. (12)
Eel: urbane hen a brulee.
E finks it's old Otto'd lost 'is knife. (14)
Egad, a base life defiles a bad age. (15)
Egad! A base tone denotes a bad age. (They might be giants, "I Palindrome I")
Egad, an adage! (8)
"Egad! An anode carnage mix at a taxi," Megan raced on : an adage. (18)
Egad! Loretta has Adams mad as a hatter. Old age! (Hercules McPherrin)
Egad! No bondage! (8)
"El administration" gals: slag? No! It... art? sin! I'm dale! (7)
Elbbow? No! Elb! Bird talc, clat! Dribble on? Wobble! (1)
Embargos are macabre. Sad Nell, listen O! not to no nets -- I'll lend a Serb a camera, so grab me!
Emil asleep, Allen yodelled "Oy." Nella peels a lime. (15)
Emil asleep, Hannah peels a lime. (15)
Emil's Nip eels sleep in slime!
Emit draw; eek! Nay, Yankee, ward time! (1)
Emma, doll, I'd accept Nan Guper as a ton tub - But not as a repugnant peccadillo, dam me! (13)
Emrof's "Eivom Ping Pong" as a G; no PG nip movies for me! (Atticus )
Enid and Edna dine:
Eda Nomel's lemonade
Bel Paese a pleb
Parkay yak rap
Feeble el beef
Roti de pup editor
Eel, urbane hen a brulee
Eros' sis is sore.
Eno, rehtori. A fair other one. (Uncle, the rector. A fair other one.)
Ere hypocrisies or poses are in, my hymn I erase. So prose I, Sir, copy here. (15)
Er, go on, trap Steven in, I say. Me oh my! Nor can an "air" bee sew. We see, Brian. An acronym? Hoe my asinine vet's part? No, ogre!
Ergo, oravi jam, Iesu. O, no use. I'm a Jivaro ogre. (Bernard S. Greenberg )
Eros, a doom! Apartness! Ellen, all I've cared for of de
race. Villanelles sent rap a mood, a sore.
Eros? Sidney, my end is sore! (8)
Erotic, I gammon ever on, else partisan, I live evil in a sit. Rapes Lenore: venom magic I tore.
Espagnola solos along apse. (16)
E.T., select celeste. (5)
Eureka! Till I pull up ill take rue. (10)
Euston saw I was not Sue. (15)
Euston sees not Sue. (15)
Eva, can I pose as Aesop in a cave? (15)
Eva, can I stab bats in a cave? (11 / 15)
Evade me, Dave. (15)
Eva, hot Ma, I sail amid arrests! I go, Lois, ere heresiologists err! A dim alias I am to have. (13)
AN APOSTLE IN FLIGHT SHAKES HIS FIST FROM A SAFE DISTANCE (13)
Eva, hot Ma, I sail amid arrests!
I go, Lois, ere heresiologists err!
A dim alias I am to have.
Snug senile Heresiologist, farce!
Be xerus-nosed, aha!
(Hades! On sure xebec-rafts I go, Lois, ere he lines guns!)
Eve damned Eden, mad Eve. (15)
Ever, Yr. Eve. (16)
Eve saw diamond, erred, no maid was Eve. (15)
Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. (15)
Evil yam strap parts may live. (evilmike evilmike@ix.netcom.com)
Ewer of miry rim for ewe. (12)
Ewe tale relate we. (6)
-- Christoph Enzinger <leo@cosy.sbg.ac.at>
[ Editor: the NPR Weekend Edition listener challenge of 13 October 1996,
as summarized by Richard Renner. The winning entries were not in the
collected material. ]
The listener challenge for the next two weeks is to find a creative
word palindrome. A word palindrome is a phrase in which the words of
the phrase, taken as units, read the same forward and backward. Will
is inspired here by Michael Donner's book, I Love Me, Volume I, which
Will called a letter palindrome (not by the standards inspired by this
editor's last name). Here are some familiar word palindromes:
All for one and one for all.
King, are you glad you are king?
So patient a doctor to doctor a patient so.
Answers will be judged on originality, cleverness and naturalness of
phrasing.
-- Richard Renner <rrenner@igc.apc.org>
[ Editor: from the rec-puzzles.org wiki page "Yreka Bakery" (question:
"What are some places with palindromic names?"), on the Yreka Bakery and
Yrella Gallery listed above. ]
As of September 2005, there no longer is a Yreka Bakery, nor is there a
Yrella Gallery. Here is the report from a researcher:
I called the Yreka Chamber of Commerce this morning and asked a
helpful woman about these businesses. Feel free to call and verify
the information, but, uh, don't all do it at once.
The Yreka Bakery is gone. Within the last twenty years, new owners
had renamed it after their family, then newer owners restored the
palindromic name, but now there is no longer a bakery in its
location. "I think it's a beauty parlor now", the woman said.
The Yrella Gallery, which had been next door to the bakery, is also
gone, no longer cashing in on the fame of its neighbor.
I asked if either of the new establishments have "cool names". She
said "no".
-Brian Tivoli
Here are some other businesses with palindromic names:
Elite Tile (San Francisco, California, USA)
Lion Oil (El Dorado, Arkansas, USA)
-- rec-puzzles.org wiki contributor (24.218.74.215)