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Fun with palindromes

Posted by nhien3B06 on Jan 30, 2010 - 10:45 PM  (713 Reads)

Palindromes are words or phrases that read the same in both directions, e.g. EYE,or RACECAR, or MADAM I'M ADAM. Here are a few good ones:

Don't nod
Dogma: I am God
Never odd or even
Too bad – I hid a boot
Rats live on no evil star
No trace; not one carton
Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?
Murder for a jar of red rum
May a moody baby doom a yam?
Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog!
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!
A Toyota! Race fast... safe car: a Toyota
Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
Doc Note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod
No, it never propagates if I set a gap or prevention
Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus
Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak
Some men interpret nine memos
Campus Motto: Bottoms up, Mac
Go deliver a dare, vile dog!
Madam, in Eden I'm Adam
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
Ah, Satan sees Natasha
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Do geese see God?
God saw I was dog
Dennis sinned
 

 

2D Palindrome Squares

 

In these word squares, a word can be read in either direction in every row and column. Here is a selection of 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, and 6x6 palindrome squares in English.

 










 











 
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Author: phung3a06
Nov 05, 2009
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That's great. Language is full of surprise. If we use this to teach pronunciation, the students would be very interested in our lesson.

Author: viehyunh
Mar 02, 2010
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This article is very interesting. this is the first time I've heard about the palindromes. I think that my students will be very excited to deal with it in the future.

Author: chirido_rika
Mar 10, 2010
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woh this is funny & i'm really amazed by this. i've heard about this kind of game playing with words but yes, this is the first time i've seen a pretty cool version of palindromes. when we have free time, playing this game is also a useful way to check & develop our vocabulary. thanks for sharing ^^

Author: zero_helen
Mar 14, 2010
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Oh i like this article, this is the first time i've heart about palindromes, before that i just know about puzzles, word finder or unscramble. I think we can use this game to improve and review our vocabulary.

Author: viehyunh
Mar 15, 2010
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I'd like to tell you more types of palindromes so that you can try playing each of them. Hope you will enjoy them.

Characters

The most familiar palindromes, in English at least, are character-by-character: the written characters read the same backwards as forwards. Palindromic words exist, for example civic, radar, level, rotator, rotor, kayak, reviver, racecar, and redder.

Phrases

Palindromes often consist of a phrase or sentence ("Go hang a salami I'm a lasagna hog.", "Was it a rat I saw?", "Step on no pets", "Sit on a potato pan, Otis", "Lisa Bonet ate no basil", "Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas", "I roamed under it as a tired nude Maori," or the exclamation "Dammit, I'm mad!"). Punctuation, capitalization, and spacing are usually ignored, although some (such as "Rats live on no evil star") include the spacing.

Famous quotations

Three famous English palindromes are "Able was I ere I saw Elba" (which is also palindromic with respect to spacing), "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!”, and “Madam, I'm Adam”.
A possible, also palindromic reply is, "Name no one man."

Names

Some people have names that are palindromes. Lon Nol (1913-1985) was Prime Minister of Cambodia. Nisio Isin is a Japanese novelist and manga writer, whose real name (西尾 維新, Nishio Ishin) is a palindrome when romanized using Kunrei-shiki or Nihon-shiki (it is often written as NisiOisiN to emphasize this). Some changed their name in order to be a palindrome (one example is actor Robert Trebor), while others were given a palindromic name at birth (such as philologist Revilo P. Oliver and Korean-American Mike Kim).

Words

Some palindromes use words as units rather than letters. Examples are "Fall leaves after leaves fall", "First Ladies rule the State and state the rule: ladies first" and "Girl, bathing on Bikini, eyeing boy, sees boy eyeing bikini on bathing girl". The command "Level, madam, level!", composed only of words that are themselves palindromes, is both a character-by-character and a word-by-word palindrome.

Lines

Still other palindromes take the line as the unit. The poem Doppelgänger, composed by James A. Lindon, is an example.

The dialogue "Crab Canon" in Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach is nearly a line-by-line palindrome. The second half of the dialog consists, with some very minor changes, of the same lines as the first half, but in reverse order and spoken by the opposite characters (i.e., lines spoken by Achilles in the first half are spoken by the Tortoise in the second, and vice versa). In the middle is a non-symmetrical line spoken by the Crab, who enters and spouts some nonsense, apparently triggering the reversal. The structure is modeled after the musical form known as crab canon, in particular the canon a 2 cancrizans of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Musical Offering.

Molecular biology
Main article: Palindromic sequence

Restriction enzymes recognize a specific sequence of nucleotides and produce a double-stranded cut in the DNA. While recognition sequences vary widely, with lengths between 4 and 8 nucleotides, many of them are palindromic, which correspond to nitrogenous base sequences between complementary strands, which when read from the 5' to 3' direction are identical sequence.

Numbers
Main article: Palindromic number

A palindromic number is a number whose digits, with decimal representation usually assumed, are the same read backwards, for example, 58285. They are studied in recreational mathematics where palindromic numbers with special properties are sought. A palindromic prime is a palindromic number that is a prime number.

Author: k34701004
Mar 16, 2010
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How great the mind of the author is ! I have to say that! I really admire his imagination and creativity.This game is highly exciting for students if they can deal with it.For me , teachers should always invent some interesting games to belittle disattraction, boredom in classes so they can change the air for further advance.PANLIDROMES, good idea to make classes more energetic!!!

Author: k34701050
Mar 16, 2010
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FUN WITH PALINDROMES
wow! It’s really the first time I realize such an interesting thing in English. Once I can understand its meaning, I wonder if it can be compared with a mirror, can’t it? Perhaps Palindromes is a miracle of language. I like it very much!

Author: t.van
Mar 19, 2010
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I just click to this artical because I wonder what " PALINDROMES" is. It is compeletely amazing and admirable, I'm sure! I have tried for so long but I can't find any one more like this!!Amazing imagination!!But there'are some problems with the squares so I can't see them!! I'll be very graceful if someone can fix it!!PALINDROMES will be an value experience for me!1 thank you!!

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