when you can read a word backwards and forwards
palindrome
title: Palindrome text: palindromic strings, excluding the trivial one-letter palindromes – otherwise all strings would be palstars. [[Category:Palindromes| ]] Palindrome A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as "madam" or "racecar" or the number "10201." Sentence-length palindromes may be written when allowances are made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers, such as "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!", "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" or "No 'x' in Nixon". Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing. The word "palindrome" was title: Palindrome text: backward) is a name coined for words that spell a different word in reverse. The word was coined by [[Martin Gardner]] in his notes to [[C.C. Bombaugh]]'s book "[[Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature]]" in 1961. "Semordnilap" is itself a semordnilap. An example of this is the word "stressed", which is "desserts" spelled backward. "Noon" is a palindrome but not a semordnilap because it is the same word whether spelled backward or forward. Some semordnilaps are deliberate creations; an example in electronics (although rarely used now) is the [[mho]], a unit of electrical conductance, which is [[ohm]] spelled backwards, title: Palindrome text: Palindrome A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as "madam" or "racecar" or the number "10201." Sentence-length palindromes may be written when allowances are made for adjustments to capital letters, punctuation, and word dividers, such as "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!", "Was it a car or a cat I saw?" or "No 'x' in Nixon". Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing. The word "palindrome" was coined by the English playwright Ben Jonson in the 17th century from the Greek roots ' title: Palindrome text: top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad; I'd assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet." The most familiar palindromes in English are character-unit palindromes. The characters read the same backward as forward. Some examples of palindromic words are "redivider", "deified", "civic", "radar", "level", "rotor", "kayak", "reviver", "racecar", "redder", "madam", and "refer". There are also word-unit palindromes in which the unit of reversal is the word ("Is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?"). Word-unit palindromes were made popular in the [[Logology|recreational linguistics]] community by [[J. A. Lindon]] in title: Ellipsis (linguistics) text: occurs in most if not all languages. It is a very frequent type of ellipsis that is omnipresent in everyday communication between speakers. Sluicing usually elides everything from a direct or indirect question except the question word. It is a frequent type of ellipsis that appears to occur in most if not all languages. It can operate both forwards and backwards like VP-ellipsis, but unlike gapping, stripping, answer fragments, and pseudogapping, e.g.: The sluicing illustrated with these two sentences has occurred in indirect questions. Sluicing in direct questions is illustrated with the following two examples: Sluicing has been studied intensely