I came across an interesting column in my hometown newspaper called "Wood on Words" in the Rockford Register Star. Barry Wood is the columnist and in his March 29th column he takes about palindromes. Palindromes are very interesting because they say the same thing if you read them backwards. I had no idea there were so many. There are also words like "level" and "noon" that are spelled the same way backwards and forwards.
Other palindromes listed in the article are:
"Mr. Owl ate my metal worm."
"Evil olive"
"Was it a car or a cat I saw?"
"Rise to vote, sir."
"I prefer pi."
"Ma is as selfless as I am."
And there are many more. I just find it interesting that this exists in the English language. This is a very strange language indeed.
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That's interesting! I agree with you: The English language is definitely strange. But, I wonder about the people who figure these things out... do they really love the English language that much or do they just have too much time on their hands?
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