Thursday, September 07, 2006

A palindrome

There was a post on Dumbfoundry recently about the death of a Malayalam poet. Malayalam is the language spoken in Kerala State in India, but Malayalam is also the longest single-word palindrome I know of that's used in English. Are there any longer?
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3 comments:

  1. Karri Kokko3:29 AM

    Today
    the postman,
    tomorrow a tattarrattat.

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  2. richard lopez3:05 PM

    i don't know what the longest palindrome is in the english language, but ol' anne sexton liked the sentence

    'rats live on no evil star'

    think she had published a collection of essays and interviews using that palindrome as its title

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  3. mark young4:49 PM

    The multi-word one I learnt at school was

    able was I ere I saw Elba

    supposed to have been uttered by Napoleon on starting exile.

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