palindrome
palindrome
A palindrome is a word or phrase which reads the same in both directions. Palindrome comes from the Greek word palíndromos, palín = AGAIN and drom–, drameîn = RUN.
tattarrattat, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses, is the longest palindrome in English.
Word-unit palindromes are sentences that read the same in both directions like "Women understand men; few men understand women". (True BTW.)
Number freak that I am I love this one: "Never odd or even."
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!
Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts.
Campus Motto: Bottoms up, Mac.
Do geese see God?
God saw I was dog.
Dennis sinned.
Dogma: I am God
Semordnilap is a word or phrase that spells a different word or phrase backwards, a non-symmetrical palindrome. They're also known as heteropalindromes, semi-palindromes, half-palindromes, reversgrams, mynoretehs, word reversals, or anadromes. For example, straw/warts.