WOW

What do Hannah, Mom, Dad, and Eve have in common?

Well, to begin with they are all human, (except maybe for Dad). But more interestingly, they are all palindromes.

What's a Palindrome? Is it like a palomino? No. Nice try, though.

Here's how I found out. I was ordering coffee one day in a local coffee shop, and my friend Tim who was taking the order, blurted out, "Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog!"



"OK." I thought. "Koo-koo!"

"What?"

"Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog!" he said again. His grin signaled something was up, so I asked.

"What do you mean?"

"It's a palindrome. It reads the same forward and backward!"

I cracked up and made him write it down for me on a post-it note.

So a palindrome is a word or phrase or sentence that reads the same forward and backward, letter by letter. Eve, Hannah, wow, pop, and the like.

So I've been stopping in and hitting up Tim for new palindromes ever since.


Here are a few more:

"Put eliot's toilet up."

"Sit on a potato pan, Otis."

"No, Mel Gibson's a casino's big lemon."




And for you mathematicians, here's one:

" I prefer pi. "


Palindromes can also be word by word, not just letter by letter:

"Blessed are they that believe that they are blessed."


Oh well, just one more reason language is cool. And my post-it note stack is getting pretty hefty, thanks to Tim (and too much caffeine)!