Palindromes

A palindrome is a word, phrase or sentence that reads the same right to left as it does left to right.

Palindromic words can sometimes be formed from verbs, by adding -s to form the third-person present tense (as in see to sees) or by adding -d to form the past tense (as in deke to deked).

Phrases and sentences, on the other hand, often fail to make any sense whatsoever, but they often have a certain poetic beauty all their own.

By the way, "palindrome" comes from the Greek palindromos, which means "running back again" (which, in itself, is derived from palin ("again") + drom-, from dramein, "to run").

Words

Ada

Anna

aha

alula (refers to feathers)

Beeb (nickname for the BBC)

bib

bob (and also, Bob)

boob

bub

civic

dad

deed

deified

deked

denned

detartrated

devived

dewed

did

dud

Eve

eke

ere

ewe

eye

Gog

gag

gig

Hannah

hah

heh

huh

I

kayak

keek (to peep surreptitiously)

kook

level

ma'am

madam

minim

mom

mum

naan

nisin

noon

nun

Otto

oo

pap

peep

pep

pip

poop

pop

pull-up

pup

racecar

radar

redder

redivider

refer

releveler

repaper

reviver

rotator

rotavator

roto

sagas

sees

senes (the monetary unit of Samoa)

seres (an ecology term)

sexes

shahs

sis

solos

stats

stots (another term for pronk—which is a kind of leap that antelopes do)

sulus

tat

tenet

tit

toot

tot

tut

vav

wow

yay

Phrases and Expressions

A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!

Able was I ere I saw Elba.

Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?

Do geese see God?

Mad Zeus, no live devil, lived evil on Suez Dam.

Madam, I'm Adam.

Never odd or even.

Norma is as selfless as I am, Ron.

Rats live on no evil star.

Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.

Sex at noon taxes.

Stiff, O dairyman, in a myriad of fits.

Straw? No, too stupid a fad. I put soot on wards.

Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus.

Too far, Edna, we wander afoot.

Was it a cat I saw?

Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?

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