{"id":4970,"date":"2020-02-02T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2020-02-02T20:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T20:21:49","slug":"word-of-the-day-palindrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freedomshillprimer.com\/institute\/2020\/02\/02\/word-of-the-day-palindrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: Palindrome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s word of the day is palindrome<\/em>. It\u2019s a noun that refers to \u201ca word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as \u2018Madam, I’m Adam\u2019 or \u2018Poor Dan is in a droop.\u2019\u201d In the study of biology, it means \u201ca region of DNA in which the sequence of nucleotides is identical with an inverted sequence in the complementary strand\u201d (https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/palindrome?s=t<\/a>). According to www.etymonline.com<\/a>, it enters the language in the \u201c1620s, from Greek palindromos<\/em> \u2018a recurrence,\u2019 literally \u2018a running back.\u2019 Second element is dromos<\/em> \u2018a running\u2019 (see dromedary<\/strong>); first is palin<\/em> \u2018again, back,\u2019 from PIE *kwle-i-<\/em>, suffixed form of root *kwel-<\/strong> (1) \u2018revolve, move round.\u2019 PIE *kw-<\/em> becomes Greek p-<\/em> before some vowels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some examples of palindromes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some single word palindromes: Anna, civic, kayak, level, madam, mom, noon, racecar, radar, redder, refer, repaper, rotator, rotor, sagas, solos, stats, tenet, wow (https:\/\/examples.yourdictionary.com\/palindrome-examples.html<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some phrases that are palindromes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don’t nod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did, did I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My gym<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red rum, sir, is murder<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step on no pets<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top spot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was it a cat I saw?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eva, can I see bees in a cave?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No lemon, no melon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some from grammarly.com:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A nut for a jar of tuna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Al lets Della call Ed \u201cStella.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amore, Roma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Borrow or rob?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taco cat<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Was it a car or a cat I saw?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murder for a jar of red rum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this one, it is the words that are the same from front to back: King, are you glad you are king?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The poem \u201cDoppelganger\u201d reads the same from bottom to top as it does from top to bottom (https:\/\/gamefaqs.gamespot.com\/boards\/216-poetry-lyrics-and-essays\/61045377<\/a>), making it a kind of poetic palindrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why it today\u2019s word palindrome<\/em>? Today\u2019s date, written out in just numbers, is 02022020, a numeric palindrome no matter where you live. It can also be 20200202. Some palindrome dates happened only in the UK, where the day number is listed before the month number, like February 20, 2002, which in the UK was 20022002 but in the US was 02202002. There can also be palindrome dates if the 0 of the first number, whether day or month, is left off, but that won\u2019t be a global palindrome day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next time a date will be a global numeric palindrome will be 12122121 (or, with the year first 21211212), over 100 years from now. If you like numbers, if you\u2019re the kind of person who notices when the odometer of your car hits 100,000 or 67,876, then you think today\u2019s date is pretty cool. If you\u2019re not at all interested in such number sequences, then move on. But keep this in mind: the last time there was a palindrome day was 909 years ago: 11111111.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The image is from the BBC, which has called those of us celebrating palindrome day \u201cgeeks.\u201d The word geek<\/em> entered the English language\u2026. Never mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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