Who coined Semordnilap?
"Semordnilap", according to author O. V. Michaelsen in his 1997 book Words at Play, was probably first used by recreational linguist Dmitri Borgmann, cited by Martin Gardner in the revised edition of Charles Carroll Bombaugh's Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature (1961) [1].
A palindrome is a word or phrase that is the same forwards and backwards, but a semordnilap ("palindromes" backwards) is a word that becomes a different word when read backwards. Get it, smug gums?
Perhaps the most commonly referenced English palindrome is: A man, a plan, a canal: Panama! American comedian and writer, Demetri Martin, recently composed the following amazing palindrome poem: Dammit I'm mad.
The longest known palindromic word is saippuakivikauppias (19 letters), which is Finnish for a dealer in lye (caustic soda). A palindrome is a word or phrase where the letters read backwards, give the same word or phrase, eg: the phrase 'Madam I'm Adam', with the reply 'Eve'.
A few simple examples are noon, race car, dad, mom, and wow. But what happens when a word read backward creates a different word altogether? Welcome to the wonderful world of the semordnilap.
Some examples of palindromic words are redivider, deified, civic, radar, level, rotor, kayak, reviver, racecar, madam, and refer.
Semordnilap Meaning - YouTube
Inversion (also known as anastrophe) is the reversing of word order.
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Repaper | W O D |
Reviver | W O D |
Rotator | W O D |
aibohphobia (uncountable) (humorous, nonce word) An irrational fear of palindromes.
What is a palindrome baby?
Palindrome baby names are spelled the same backwards and forwards, so all your symmetrical dreams can (and will) come true.
Why is it called a portmanteau? The French word portmanteau describes a two-part suitcase. It combines the words porte, which means “to carry,” and manteau, meaning “cloak.” Like the suitcase, a portmanteau word holds or carries the meaning of two or more words.

Definition of griffonage
: careless handwriting : a crude or illegible scrawl.
A palindromic number (also known as a numeral palindrome or a numeric palindrome) is a number (such as 16461) that remains the same when its digits are reversed.
The Palindrome PvP god roll
In our PvE god roll, that translates to a magazine that boosts mag size or reload speed (depending on preference) and a barrel that boosts stability, range, or handling to make the gun more comfortable.
- pantoum (related) ...
- concrete poetry (related) ...
- witticism. A witty remark. ...
- pun (related) A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. ...
- renga (related) ...
- play-on-words. ...
- wordplay.
Palindrome comes from Greek palindromos, meaning "running back again," which itself is from palin ("back," "again") and dramein ("to run").
Shortest Palindrome O(N) - YouTube
Mathematically, yes, a single letter word is palindromic (also a zero-length word, but let's not get carried away just yet).
To dust off your memory from English class, a palindrome is a word spelled the same backward as forward. (Think Hannah, Anna and Bob.) And that's not the only way parents are naming their babies. Remember when Sonny Sandoval named his daughter Nevaeh in 2000?
What word can be spelled upside down and backwards?
The answer is "Palindrome", because a palindrome is a word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward.
A word which forms a different word when spelled backwards. "Desserts" and "stressed" are believed to be the longest common English anadromes.
A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same in both directions. The word palindrome is derived from the Greek word palíndromos, which means "running back again". Examples of one-word palindromes include "eye" and "did". Two-word palindromes include "edit/tide" and "lived/devil".
A palindrome can contain either an even number of letters (for example, abbbba) or an odd number of letters (for example, ababa).
The date is a palindrome and an ambigram at the same time. This implies it may be read in any direction, including backwards and upside down. The date forms a palindrome and an ambigram when written in the British style on 22/02/2022, a pattern that is unique and extremely unusual.
HELLO backwards is OLLEH.
Aaron Yoder is one fast dude. He holds the world record for the backward mile – formally known as “retro running” – at 5 minutes and 54 seconds.
CHEVY - How to say it Backwards - YouTube
Levidrome is the word created by SMUS second-grader Levi Budd. The now 7 year-old, first made a pitch to get it in the dictionary with a video late last year. The definition is a word that contains the same lettering but spells a different word when written backwards. The simplest example being pots and stop.
- pantoum (related) ...
- concrete poetry (related) ...
- witticism. A witty remark. ...
- pun (related) A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words. ...
- renga (related) ...
- play-on-words. ...
- wordplay.
What is a Griffonage?
Definition of griffonage
: careless handwriting : a crude or illegible scrawl.
Why is it called a portmanteau? The French word portmanteau describes a two-part suitcase. It combines the words porte, which means “to carry,” and manteau, meaning “cloak.” Like the suitcase, a portmanteau word holds or carries the meaning of two or more words.