A number of interesting palindromes are given here for your amusement.
A blog for English language teachers, teacher trainers and everybody who would like to master this language with ease. Our only goal is to gather as much information as possible about the English language in one place.
1/11/2012
Palindromes
A palindrome is a word or sentence that reads the same forward as it does backward. The words a and I are perhaps the simplest and least interesting palindromes; the word racecar and the name Hannah are more interesting and illustrative. Neither spaces nor punctuation are usually taken into consideration when constructing sentences that are palindromes -- one of the most famous palindromes is "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama" -- but when the spaces are properly positioned as well, so much the better. An example would be the also famous palindrome "Able was I ere I saw Elba," purportedly spoken by Napoleon, referring to his first sighting of Elba, the island where the British exiled him.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment