Did you know that........?

[viking33]

Did you know that:

1.. That the words "race car" spelled backward still spell "race car"?

2.. That "eat" is the only word that if you take the 1st letter and move it to the last, it spells its past tense "ate"?

[John Gray]

3. that the appropriate term for 'a word, phrase or sentence which reads the same backwards as forwards' is a 'palindrome'?

And you can do much better than "race car".
How about
"Reviled did I live, said I, as evil I did deliver."
"Mr. Owl ate my metal worm."
"Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram."
"No, Mel Gibson is a casino's big lemon."
and, of course, probably the most famous:
"A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!"

[HansV]

And:

"Madam, I'm Adam"

[viking33]

3. that the appropriate term for 'a word, phrase or sentence which reads the same backwards as forwards' is a 'palindrome'?

And you can do much better than "race car".

John,
I would expect more. I was just starting the thread off with a few easy examples!

[HansV]

Here's another one: "partyboobytrap" (I'll leave it to the reader to work out the connection with a former vice-presidential candidate).

And there's the intriguing question "Do geese see God"?

[viking33]

Here's another one: "partyboobytrap" (I'll leave it to the reader to work out the connection with a former vice-presidential candidate).

And there's the intriguing question "Do geese see God"?

Where do you get some of these things, Hans?
Do a lot of reading with a mirror?

[HansV]

Also fun: the video Bob - a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic whose lyrics consist entirely of palindromes (it's a parody of Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues)

[jonwallace]

...The palindrome of Bolton would be notloB...

Spoiler

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[HansV]

...The palindrome of Bolton would be notloB...

It don't work.

[Jezza]

Well, what do you want?

[HansV]

No I'm sorry, I'm not prepared to pursue my line of enquiry any further as I think this is getting too silly.

[Jezza]

Quite agree, quite agree, too silly, far too silly...

[HansV]

Right, get on with it. Get on with it.

[jonwallace]

Ok I give up. I should have known better than to resort to Monty Python quotes here...