What is a palindrome?
07.11.2012 18:30
Palindromes are words or phrases that read the same in both directions, e. g. EYE, or MADAM.
Here are a few good ones:
- Don't nod
- God saw I was dog
- Never odd or even
- Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?
- No, it never propagates if I set a gap or prevention
- Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
- Some men interpret nine memos
- Do geese see God?
- Madam, in Eden I'm Adam
- Sums are not set as a test on ErasmusLisa Bonet ate no basil
- Dennis sinned
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