Palindromes





Subject: Re: palindromes
From: pete@physchem.ox.ac.uk (Pete Biggs)
Date: 5 Mar 93 08:07:13 GMT

A dog, a plan, a canal: pagoda.

Rats live on no evil star.

Straw, no, to stupid a fad, I put soot on warts.

I roamed under it as a tired, nude Maori.

Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo,
Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida,
Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina,
Lily, Arne, Betty, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl,
Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden,
Noel, and Ellen sinned.

A man, a plan, a canal; Panama?

A man, a plan, a cat, a canal; Panama?

A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal--Panama!
Go deliver a dare, vile dog.

Doc note, I dissent.  A fast never prevents a fatness.  I diet on cod.

PALINDROMIC POEM:

Mood's mode!
Pallas, I won!
(Diaper pane, sold entire.)
Melt till ever sere, hide it.
Drown a more vile note;
(Tar of rennet.)
Ah, trowel, baton, eras ago.
The reward? A "nisi." Two nag.

Otary tastes putrid, yam was green.
Odes up and on; stare we.
Rats nod. Nap used one-erg saw.
(May dirt upset satyr?)

A toga now; 'tis in a drawer, eh?
Togas are notable.
(Worth a tenner for Ate`.)
Tone liver. O Man, word-tied I.

Here's revel!
Little merit, Ned? Lose, Nap?
Repaid now is all apedom's doom.


Tarzan raised a Desi Arnaz rat.

Able was I, ere I saw Elba!

If I had a hi-fi

A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, hero's, rajahs, a coloratura,
maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan,
a tag, a banana bag again, or: a camel, a crepe, pins, spam,
a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal, Panama!


Here is some information about a few palindromes related to the one
you mention.  As far as I know, the first person to put a cat in the
canal was Jim Saxe, in his 9 October 1983 plan file.

    A man, a plan, a cat, a canal; Panama?

Guy Jacobson added several items later that year.

    A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal--Panama!

Guy's palindrome appears on page 127 of COMMON LISP, THE LANGUAGE
(page 170 of the 2nd edition).  The 2nd edition of COMMON LISP, THE
LANGUAGE also contains the remarkable:

    A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps,
    snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a
    banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo,
    cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal--Panama!

which is presumably the work of Guy Steele, the book's author.

I dredged up the problem in 1984, and discovered the following 540-word
version with the help of a computer program that I wrote:
    A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, a myriad, a sum, a lac, a liar,
    a hoop, a pint, a catalpa, a gas, an oil, a bird, a yell, a vat,
    a caw, a pax, a wag, a tax, a nay, a ram, a cap, a yam, a gay,
    a tsar, a wall, a car, a luger, a ward, a bin, a woman, a vassal,
    a wolf, a tuna, a nit, a pall, a fret, a watt, a bay, a daub,
    a tan, a cab, a datum, a gall, a hat, a fag, a zap, a say, a jaw,
    a lay, a wet, a gallop, a tug, a trot, a trap, a tram, a torr,
    a caper, a top, a tonk, a toll, a ball, a fair, a sax, a minim,
    a tenor, a bass, a passer, a capital, a rut, an amen, a ted,
    a cabal, a tang, a sun, an ass, a maw, a sag, a jam, a dam, a sub,
    a salt, an axon, a sail, an ad, a wadi, a radian, a room, a rood,
    a rip, a tad, a pariah, a revel, a reel, a reed, a pool, a plug,
    a pin, a peek, a parabola, a dog, a pat, a cud, a nu, a fan, a pal,
    a rum, a nod, an eta, a lag, an eel, a batik, a mug, a mot, a nap,
    a maxim, a mood, a leek, a grub, a gob, a gel, a drab, a citadel,
    a total, a cedar, a tap, a gag, a rat, a manor, a bar, a gal,
    a cola, a pap, a yaw, a tab, a raj, a gab, a nag, a pagan, a bag,
    a jar, a bat, a way, a papa, a local, a gar, a baron, a mat, a rag,
    a gap, a tar, a decal, a tot, a led, a tic, a bard, a leg, a bog,
    a burg, a keel, a doom, a mix, a map, an atom, a gum, a kit,
    a baleen, a gala, a ten, a don, a mural, a pan, a faun, a ducat,
    a pagoda, a lob, a rap, a keep, a nip, a gulp, a loop, a deer,
    a leer, a lever, a hair, a pad, a tapir, a door, a moor, an aid,
    a raid, a wad, an alias, an ox, an atlas, a bus, a madam, a jag,
    a saw, a mass, an anus, a gnat, a lab, a cadet, an em, a natural,
    a tip, a caress, a pass, a baronet, a minimax, a sari, a fall,
    a ballot, a knot, a pot, a rep, a carrot, a mart, a part, a tort,
    a gut, a poll, a gateway, a law, a jay, a sap, a zag, a fat,
    a hall, a gamut, a dab, a can, a tabu, a day, a batt, a waterfall,
    a patina, a nut, a flow, a lass, a van, a mow, a nib, a draw,
    a regular, a call, a war, a stay, a gam, a yap, a cam, a ray,
    an ax, a tag, a wax, a paw, a cat, a valley, a drib, a lion,
    a saga, a plat, a catnip, a pooh, a rail, a calamus, a dairyman,
    a bater, a canal--Panama.

This was done with the Unix spelling dictionary and a fairly
simple-minded program.  With a better word list and a smarter program
I'm sure the palindrome could be ten times as long.

I am somewhat concerned that people have been redistributing these
palindromes without attribution.  Please don't do so.  And if you get
a copy of my palindrome without my name on it, I would appreciate it
if you mention my objection to whoever sends it to you.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil


Rise to vote sir

Madam I'm Adam

A Toyota! Race fast, safe car. A Toyota

You can cage a swallow can't you but you can't swallow a cage can you?

Madam in Eden, I'm Adam.

Sit on a potato pan, Otis.

Top step's pup's pet spot.

A fine snore, rare Ronsen IFA.

A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!

Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas.

Cigar?  Toss it in a can, it is so tragic.

Unremarkable was I ere I saw Elba Kramer, nu?

A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal - Panama!

A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps,
snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana
bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a
jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama!
Aha!

Oh, no!  Don Ho!

Bonk! One Mac. Newton sees not wen came (no knob).

Lisa Bonet ate no basil.

Toni Tennille fell in net.  I, not!

Vanna, wanna V?

Man, Oprah's sharp on A.M.

Damn!  I, Agassi, miss again!  Mad!

(... Yawn.)  Madonna Fan?  No damn way!

E. Borgnine drags Dad's gardening robe.

Neil A. sees alien!

The almanac can am laeth

I'm runnin'! - Nurmi

A man, a plan, a canal...Suez!

Is Don Adams mad? (A nod.) Si!

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

Alan Alda stops racecar, spots ad: "Lana-L.A."

Bush saw Sununu swash sub.

Cain: A maniac!

Depardieu, go razz a rogue I draped.

Ed, I saw Harpo Marx ram Oprah W. aside.

I, Rasputin, knit up Sari.

Let O'Hara gain an inn in a niagara hotel.

Noriega can idle, held in a cage...Iron!

O, geronimo, no minor ego!

Plan no damn Madonna LP.

Red lost case, Ma.  Jesse James acts older.

Sis, ask Costner to not rent socks "As Is"!

So, G. Rivera's tots are virgos.

T. Eliot nixes sex in toilet!

To Idi Amin: I'm a idiot!
A dog!  A panic in a pagoda!

A slut nixes sex in Tulsa.

A tin mug for a jar of gum, Nita.

Ah, Satan sees Natasha.

Al lets Della call Ed Stella.

amaryllis sillyrama

Animal loots foliated detail of stool lamina.

Bird rib.

Bombard a drab mob.

But sad Eva saved a stub.

Camus sees sumac.

Cigar?  Toss it in a can, it is so tragic.

Daedalus: nine, Peninsula: dead.

Dairy myriad.

Deirdre wets altar of St. Simons - no mists, for at last ewer dried.

Denim axes examined.

Dennis and Edna sinned.

Dior droid.

Drat Sadat, a dastard!

Drat Saddam, a mad dastard!

Draw, o coward!

Egad! No bondage!

Egad, an adage!

emu fat sap pasta fume

Enid and Edna dine:
      Eda Nomel's lemonade
      Bel Paese a pleb
      Parkay yak rap
      Feeble el beef
      Roti de pup editor
      Eel, urbane hen a brulee
      Self-furnace Pecan ruffles

Eros?  Sidney, my end is sore.

Evil olive.

Flee to me, remote elf.

Flesh!  Saw I Mimi wash self!

Gert, I saw Ron avoid a radio-van - or was it Reg?

Gnu dung.

Go hang a salami!  I'm a lasagna hog!

God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!

God, a slap!  Paris, sir, appals a dog.

Goldenrod-adorned log

Golf?  No sir, prefer prison-flog.

Gustav Klimt milk vats - ug!

I maim Miami.

I roamed under it as a tired, nude Maori.

I, zani Nazi.

Jar a tonga, nag not a raj.

Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak.

Kayak salad - Alaska yak.

Lager, Sir, is regal.

Laminated E.T. animal.

Lay a wallaby baby ball away, Al.

Lepers repel.

"M" lab menial slain: embalm.

Ma is a nun, as I am.

Man, Eve let an irate tar in at eleven a.m.

May a moody baby doom a yam?

Mayhem, eh Yam?

"Miry rim!  So many daffodils," Delia wailed, "slid off a dynamo's miry rim!"

Must sell at tallest sum.

Naomi, did I moan?

Ned, go gag Ogden.

Never odd or even.

No lemons, no melon.

Nog eroded Oregon.

Nosegay ages on.

Now Ned, I am a maiden nun: Ned, I am a maiden won.

O.E.D. or rodeo?

Pa's a sap.

Paganini: Din in A Gap.

Party boobytrap.

Poor Dan is in a droop.

Red Nevada vendor.

Reflog a golfer

Reno loner

"Reviled did I live," said I, "as evil I did deliver."

Rise, take lame female Kate, sir.

Rococo "R".

Rot-corpse Sumatran art amuses proctor.

Senile Felines

Sex at noon taxes.

Sex-aware era waxes.

Sh, Tom sees moths.

Sir, I soon saw Bob was no Osiris.

Sis, Sargasso Moss a grass is.

Sit on a potato pan, Otis.

Sniff'um muffins.

So, Ida, adios!

Solo gigolos.

Sore eye, Eros?

Sore was I ere I saw Eros.

Stab nail at ill Italian bats.

Star comedy by Democrats.

Stella won no wallets

Step on no pets!

Stop!  Murder us not, tonsured rumpots!

Strategem: megatarts.

straw warts

T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad.  "I'd assign it a 
     name: gant dirt upset on drab pot toilet

Tarzan raised Desi Arnaz' rat.

Tense, I snap Sharon roses, or Norah's pansies net.

Too bad, I hid a boot.

Trafalgar rag: La Fart

Tuna nut

U.F.O. tofu.

Viva le te de Tel Aviv

Was raw tap ale not a reviver at one lap at Warsaw?

We seven, Eve, sew.

Yawn a more Roman way.

Yell upset a cider: predicates pulley.

Yo!  Bottoms up, U.S. Motto, boy!

FOREIGN LANGUAGE PALINDROMES

(Latin)
Subi dura a rudibus (endure rough treatement from uncultured brutes)

Sator Arepo tenet opera rotas (The sower Arepo works with the help of a wheel.)

(Finnish)

Saippuakauppias (soap dealer)
(the longest one word palindrome in the world!)

suolatalous - salt economy

iso rikas sika sokosakissa kirosi - a fat rich pig cursed in a poker gang

isa, ala myy myymalaasi - father, don't sell your shop (two dots over those a's)

(Welsh)
Llad dafad dall (kill a blind sheep)

(Swedish)
Ni talar bra latin (you speak good Latin)

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Red rum, sir, is murder.
Able was I ere I saw Elba (might have been said by Napoleon).
Was it a rat I saw?
Lepers repel.
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus.  
Did I draw Della too tall, Edward? I did?
Dennis and Edna sinned.
step on no pets
Dennis sinned 
Dennis and Edna sinned
Drat Saddam mad dastard.
He goddam mad dog, eh?
A Fool, A Tool, A Pool; LOOPALOOTALOOFA!
I roamed under it as a tired, nude Maori.
Rats live on no evil star
Sit on a potato pan Otis!
evil i did dwell, lewd did i live
Straw no too stupid I put soot on warts.
Straw?  No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts.
Paget saw an Irish tooth, Sir, in a waste gap.
Madam, I'm Adam.
Live evil.
"Yreka Bakery".
Sex at noon taxes

"Do good?  I?  No!  Evil anon I deliver.  I maim nine more hero-men in Saginaw, sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I--lo!--rack, cut a drowsy rat in Aswan.  I gas nine more hero-men in Miami.  Reviled, I (Nona) live on.  I do, O God!"

"Rise, sir lapdog!  Revolt, lover!  God, pal, rise, sir!"

No evil shahs live on.

We repaid a no name Pacific ape man on a diaper, ew!

AIM A TOYOTA TATAMI MAT AT A TOYOTA MIA.  [center symmetric, too]

Eve 
Sees 
Noon 
Level 
Radar 
O, no! 
We few. 
Do God! 
Go, dog! 
Top pot. 
Old? Lo! 
A Toyota. 
Top spot. 
Live evil. 
Stun nuts. 
Redivider 
Never even. 
Go do, dog. 
Semi limes 
Stop spots. 
Regal lager. 
Yreka Bakery 
Lepers repel. 
Ma has a ham. 
Dot sees Tod. 
Dennis sinned. 
Sir, I'm Iris. 
Senile felines. 
Not so, Boston. 
I met System I. 
Dee saw a seed. 
Del saw a sled. 
Lee had a heel. 
Lonely Tylenol. 
Laid on no dial. 
Name no one man. 
Peel Sam asleep. 
Step on no pets. 
"Naomi," I Moan. 
He won snow, eh? 
Redraw a warder. 
Madam, I'm Adam. 
Do geese see God? 
Ed is on no side. 
Emil saw a slime. 
Sleep on no peels. 
Never odd or even. 
Rise to vote, sir. 
Eros' sis is sore. 
Dot saw I was Tod. 
Gateman's nametag. 
Lem saw I was Mel. 
God saw I was dog! 
Sleep not on peels. 
Was it a rat I saw? 
Wendel's sled: new? 
He stops spots, eh? 
O, stone, be not so. 
Ma is a nun, as I am. 
Now I see bees I won. 
God, a saw was a dog! 
No, I met System Ion. 
No, it is opposition. 
No evil shah lives on. 
He goddam mad dog, eh? 
Dr. Lime, 121 Emil Rd. 
Delia saw I was ailed. 
Niagara, O roar again. 
Star comedy: Democrats! 
Rats drown in WordStar. 
Dennis and Edna sinned. 
He won a Toyota now, eh? 
Drat Saddam mad dastard. 
Red rum, sir, is murder. 
Sit on a potato pan Otis! 
Madam, in Eden, I'm Adam. 
A slut nixes sex in Tulsa. 
Able was I ere I saw Elba. 
Ma is as selfless as I am. 
Rats live on no evil star. 
A dog! A panic in a pagoda! 
Ten animals I slam in a net. 
Go deliver a dare, vile dog. 
May a moody baby doom a yam? 
Murder for a jar of red rum. 
I won, Karen, an era know I. 
Swen, on gnus, sung no news. 
No, she stops spots, eh, son? 
Eros?  Sidney, my end is sore! 
Emil's Nip eels sleep in slime! 
Devil Natasha, ah, Satan lived. 
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama. 
I, man, am regal; a German am I. 
No pinot noir on Orion to nip on. 
O, memsahib Bart, rabbi has memo. 
Golf? No sir, prefer prison flog. 
Trap all afoot; I too fall apart. 
Evil I did dwell, lewd did I live. 
"Naomi, sex at noon taxes," I moan. 
Egad, a base life defiles a bad age. 
Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak. 
"Asi, Buenos Dias!" said Son Eubisa. 
Egad!  A base tone denotes a bad age. 
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. 
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus. 
Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram. 
Anna: "Did Otto peep?" Otto: "Did Anna?" 
Did I draw Della too tall, Edward? I did? 
Address of Emil Otto Lime: Fosse Rd., DA. 
Aim a Toyota tatami mat at a Toyota, Mia. 
I roamed under it as a tired, nude Maori. 
Did I draw Della too tall, Edward? I did? 
He won't, ah, wander, Edna.  What now, eh? 
Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna. 
I roamed under rats as a starred, nude Maori. 
We few erase cares, Al; laser aces are we few. 
Paget saw an Irish tooth, Sir, in a waste gap. 
Level? No, I tan, I'm at no contamination level. 
Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts. 
Live dirt up a side track carted is a putrid evil. 
No gnu have never after fret far, even Eva hung on. 
We repaid a no name Pacific ape man on a diaper, ew! 
I prevent U-boats, tar, evil live rats, Tao but never pi. 
Doc, note, I dissent: a fast never prevents a fatness; I diet on cod. 
 
Do good? I? No! Evil anon I deliver: I maim nine more hero-men in 
Saginaw; sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I--lo!--rack, cut a drowsy rat in 
Aswan; I gas nine more hero-men in Miami; reviled I (Nona) live on. I 
do, O God! 

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