Word problem
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leave me outta this!
two sets of doubled up letters
I'm also good at cards.
Better than a good try, it's correct. There must be two or more correct answers.
They all contain palindromes, think I got it!
Yes,
close enough.
The first letter when moved to the end of the word, spells the word backwards.
My real question is what is that called?
Good but there's no way my pee is going up my arse.
Fraggle Rocker
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They were all in "Ask Marilyn" a couple of weeks ago.
thecollage
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I have a boat.
Fraggle Rocker
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I'm not sure it has a name. How many words like that are there, and how long did it take somebody to notice them?
Palin-drome is just the Greek equivalent of Latin re-current: "running back." So maybe these are pseudopalindromes.
While eating a french fried potato, I slipped on a banana peel on uneven pavement and before I could assess the situation and be revived to my senses, I blurted out an expletive in improper grammar after hitting my head on the dresser.
Isn't English one of relatively few languages where "true" (letter-by-letter) palindromes are even possible? In Russian it is all but impossible to write a sentence which spells same backward and forward, because endings of Russian verbs and adjectives are very asymmetrical, and their reverses simply do not exist in that language, even on word boundaries. When a Russian says "palindrome" he usually means word-to-word palindrome -- a sentence or a paragraph with same word order forward and backward. I don't think true palindromes are possible in French either, for the same reason.