![]() Common palindromic-that’s the adjective for palindrome-words include: noon, civic, racecar, level, and mom. We use palindromes everyday without thinking about it. In palindromes, spacing, punctuation, and capitalization are usually ignored. This bit of wordplay is not the same thing as when you rearrange the letters of a word or phrase to spell another one. So, a palindrome is like a word, phrase, or number that “runs back” on itself. Words like hippodrome or velodrome also feature the Greek dromos. ![]() It derives from Greek roots that literally mean “running back” ( palin is “again, back,” and dromos, “running.”) The word appears to have been created in English based on these roots in the early 1600s. Palin-what-in-the-what-now? What is a palindrome, and what does it mean?Ī palindrome is a word, sentence, verse, or even number that reads the same backward or forward. What do these-admittedly very unusual-sentences have in common?
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