Do you know what a palindrome is?

stressed is not a palindrome though it does not read the same way backwards and forwards, radar is a palindrome

Gotta love the palindrome! There are, of course, the easy ones: RADAR refer stats kayak But then you can get into the phrases and sentences: Able was I ere I saw Elba. A man, a plan, a canal, Panama. So many more to be had, but I will leave some for others. :)

I probably knew what a palindrome was at some point in time in my life. Menopausal memory causes me to forget a lot lately. I noticed your post and decided that I needed to refresh my memory. Wish my body came with a "F5" button.

Would it be the same word or a different word? You said desserts and stressed, but those are two different words. Now for instance, noon and eye, are examples of words that are the same backwards and forward. Whereas, words like, evil and live or god and dog are two different words.

I was introduced to palindromes during my programming class in college. It is because we are told to determine, using a program we would write, if a certain phrase is a palindrome or not. It is fun learning basics of programming and learning palindromes at the same time. Here are some web pages with list of palindromes: - http://www.geocities.com/~harveyh/palindromes.htm#Word%20palindromes - from Wikipedia: * A man, a plan, a canal, Panama! * Rats live on no evil star. * Neil, a trap! Sid is part alien! * Step on no pets. * Dammit, I'm mad! * Madam, I'm Adam. * Madam, in Eden, I'm Adam. * Rise to vote, sir. * Never odd or even * If I had a hi-fi * War, sir, is raw. * Yo, banana boy! * Do geese see God? * No devil lived on. * Ah, Satan sees Natasha. * Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel! * A dog, a panic in a pagoda * Was it a cat I saw? * Was it a car or a cat I saw? * A Toyota's a Toyota. * No lemons, no melon * Now I see bees, I won. * Ma is as selfless as I am. * Nurse, I spy gypsies—run! * A dog, a plan, a canal, pagoda * Was it Eliot's toilet I saw? * No, sir, away! A papaya war is on! * Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog. * I, madam, I made radio! So I dared! Am I mad? Am I? * Swap God for a janitor, rot in a jar of dog paws. * Eva, can I see bees in a cave? * Taco Cat * So many dynamos! * Red rum, sir, is murder.

that is the first time in my life i ever heard the word. thanks, i like leaerning new things.

There are many single words. I like phrases, here are some: "Able was I ere I saw Elba" "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama." "Bird rib" "Borrow or rob?" "Don't nod"

I have know about palindromes since I was a kid and the main example I was taught and used to describe it has been shared already and that's "Madam I'm Adam" There is a guy that claims to have come up with a palindrome using over 17,000 words! Here's the link: http://norvig.com/palindrome.html I've never read the entire thing myself, but this is unbelievable!

It has always disappointed me that the word "palindrome" isn't a palindrome. It would somehow be more fitting if it were. The only one I remember is the "Madam, I'm Adam" one - I think it must be the standard example in schools.

It's 4:30 AM here and the first thing that popped into my head was toot, I guess we had split soup for dinner last night. I don't think I have to explan. Thanks for the hint about dessert etc. I always have trouble with that.

On his album "Poodle Hat", Weird Al Yankovich has a song called "Bob" which was ENTIRELY palindromes. You should check it out - it is definately a hoot. "Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog." A classic, that one, LOL.

// Palindrome.java It check if a string is a palindrome.. public class Palindrome { public static void main(String[] args) { String str1 = "eye", str2 = "bye"; System.out.println("Palindrome detection"); System.out.println(str1 + " " + isPalindrome(str1)); System.out.println(str2 + " " + isPalindrome(str2)); } static boolean isPalindrome(String s) { int left = 0; int right = s.length() - 1; while (left

The most popular palindrome I know is: "Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?" It's so cool!

of course i know wat it means not before my c language teacher asked me to write a program to detect weather a give word is palindrome or not.....the word palindrome was unfamiliar to me then but when i came to know i was driven by the idea.. some of the palindromes are as followed: 1)madam 2)malayalam 3)dad 4)mam,mom...........etc....

I love stuff like that lol. I remember 'Madam I'm Adam' from English class, our one teacher was fond about bringing up neat stuff like that. I never knew about the desserts one...sure explains a lot (for me, I get stressed when I don't have any hahaha) Only ones I can think of right now are 'Too hot to hoot' & "dammit, I'm mad!"

I've always thought palindromes were kinda neat. But, I never thought of them in numbers...

I think I have heard of this word before. I had forgotten what it meant until now though. I know a few palindromes like noon, racecar, rotor, eye, deed, civic, nun, level, pop, radar, pip, and toot. Words like LIVE and STRAW (which read EVIL and WARTS backwards) are not themselves palindromes but the "phrases" LIVE EVIL and STRAW WARTS are. A palindrome is not necessarily a single word. The longest single English word in common usage which is a palindrome is REDIVIDER, although the contrived chemical term DETARTRATED is two letters longer. In Finnish there is a 25-letter palindromic word: SOLUTOMAATTIMITTAAMOTULOS which means the result from a measurement laboratory for tomatoes, although technically it is a compound of four words. There is also the equally long SAIPPUAKUPPINIPPUKAUPPIAS which means soap cup trader.

My husband actually has one on a bumper sticker on his truck. It says: Race Car spelled backwards is Race Car

You are right. A palindrome is something that read same either way. I responded in the morning with a couple of palindromes which I know. But I am not able to see them now. I am giving them once again. 1. "Malayalam" (a language in India down South spoken by the people hailing from State Kerala in India. It spells same either way. 2. "Was it a car or a cat I saw" is a sentence which spells exactly same when read backwards. Isn't it interesting.

You are absolutely right. A word is called a palindrome when it is spelled same either ways. This is real fun. Here are a few palindromes I came across. "Malayalam" (a South Indian Language spoken by the people hailing from Kerala. This is their mother tongue) "Was it a car or a cat I saw" is one such sentence which spells the same backwards. It is real fun, isn't it? Anybody has anymore palindromes may share with me.