how many words look the same if u reverse them or right them back to front. example did
2007-02-03 23:44:52 · 6 answers · asked by islandofmudo 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Such words are called palindromes
There are waay too many of them to count.
The longest palindromic word in the Oxford English Dictionary is tattarrattat, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses for a knock on the door. The Guinness Book of Records gives detartrated, the past tense of detartrate, a somewhat contrived chemical term meaning to remove tartrates. Rotavator, a trademarked name for an agricultural machine, is often listed in dictionaries. The term redivider (i.e. someone or something that redivides) is used by some writers but appears to be an invented term - only redivide and redivision appear in the "Shorter Oxford Dictionary". Malayalam, an Indian language, is of equal length.
2007-02-03 23:49:47 · answer #1 · answered by the truth 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-04 07:49:07 · answer #2 · answered by RJ2K1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name Hannah is the same either way you write it.
2007-02-04 07:54:35 · answer #3 · answered by zil28ennov 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mom
Dad
Otto
Haedeah ( a name )
Did
Nun
Mum
Oh yeah...thanks for the two points!
2007-02-04 07:55:10 · answer #4 · answered by keℓsey<3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaps of words. They are called palindromes. http://www.palindromelist.com/
The funniest one is Aibohphobia, the fear of palindromes, which is a palindrome itself. What a crack up!
2007-02-04 07:51:57 · answer #5 · answered by sticky 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
mum, dad, the coolest is this sentance though..
RISE TO VOTE SIR read it backwards!
2007-02-04 07:48:26 · answer #6 · answered by fireman sam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋