The word "palindrome" was coined by the English Ben Jonson in the 17th century from the Greek roots palin ("again") and dromos ("way, direction"). The longest English word which is a palindrome is "detartrated".
Palindromes date back at least to 79 AD, as a palindrome was found as a graffito at Herculaneum.
It is remarkable for the fact that the first letters of each word form the first word, the second letters form the second word, and so forth. It means "The sower Arepo holds with effort the wheels".
The Greeks are known to have wrote this on their fountains: "Nipson anomemata me monan opsin" that means "wash the sin as well as the face"
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!Amor, Roma
Was it a cat I saw?
No 'x' in Nixon
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