mercoledì 7 gennaio 2015

Palindromes

The palindrome is a sequence of letters that can be read also in reverse. The palindrome is a form linked to linguistic units. The first palindromes were transcribed verbatim in the Middle Ages. According to a legend, the inventor is the poet greek Sotades. 
Some examples are:


Don't nod
Dogma: I am God
Never odd or even
Too bad – I hid a boot
Rats live on no evil star
No trace; not one carton
Madam, in Eden I'm Adam
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
Lisa Bonet ate no basil

The Romans also invented some palindromes:

  Roma subito motibus amor 
 In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni


 The best known palindrome ever is:

A man, a plan, a canal – Panama!