I'm posting this list even though I know, that this will lead to
dozens of followups about "A man a plan..." and "Madam I'm Amam"
during the next two weeks.
When you follo-up, please be sure to select the newsgroup, or it will
go to rec.humor.d (where it _does_ belond in that case).
If any FTP sites accept this list, it would be nice to hear about it. (:
And yes, let me know if the subject is incorrect after all.
So, here it is,
The Most Complete List of Palindromes v2.1 [31 May 1994]
compiled by jopi@zombie.oulu.fi
0. What's a palindrome
1. Palindromes in English
1.1 The most widely known palindromes
1.2 Short English palindromes
1.3 Longer English palindromes
1.4 A man, a plan...
2. Palindromes in other languages
2.1 Finnish
2.2 Dutch
2.3 French
2.4 German
2.5 Greek
2.6 Latin
2.7 Slovak
2.8 Spanish
2.9 Swedish
2.10 Welsh
3. Credits
0. What is a palindrome
A palindrome is a sentence that can be read backwards and it's meaning
still remains. It is commonly accepted that the punctuation and spacing
may change while reversing the words, though.
For example:
% echo "Rats live on no evil star." | rev
.rats live on no evil staR
1.1 The most widely known palindromes
The most frequently posted English palindromes (over 20% of them):
A man, a plan, a canal, Panama! (and variants)
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
Doc note, I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
Straw, no too stupid a fad, I put soot on warts.
Rats live on no evil star.
He goddam mad dog, eh?
Madam, I'm Adam.
Name no one man.
T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad:
"I'd assign it a name: gant dirt upset on drab pot toilet
And the same for the Finnish ones:
Saippuakauppias
Innostunut sonni
1.2 Short English palindromes
...with duplicates removed.
(... Yawn.) Madonna Fan? No damn way!
11 * 181 = 1991 = 181 * 11
A Fool, A Tool, A Pool; LOOPALOOTALOOFA!
A TOYOTA (it's also visually semetric)
A Toyota! Race fast, safe car. A Toyota
A Toyota's a Toyota.
A dog! A panic in a pagoda!
A dog, a plan, a canal: pagoda.
A fine snore, rare Ronsen IFA.
A foof, a man, a plan, a canal, Panama foofa!
A man, a plan, 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!
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!
A new order began, a more Roman age, bred Rowena.
A slut nixes sex in Tulsa.
A tin mug for a jar of gum, Nita.
ABBA
Able was I ere I saw Elba (attr. to Napoleon B.).
Ah, Satan Sees Natasha
Aha!
Aibohphobia (the fear of palindromes)
Aim a Toyota tatami mat at a Toyota, Mia.
Al lets Della call Ed Stella.
Alan Alda stops racecar, spots ad: "Lana-L.A."
Amaryllis sillyrama
Animal loots foliated detail of stool lamina.
Anna: "Did Otto peep?" Otto: "Did Anna?"
Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna.
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
Bird rib.
Bishop made lame female damp? Oh, Sib!
Bombard a drab mob.
Bonk! One Mac. Newton sees not wen came (no knob).
Bush saw Sununu swash sub.
Busy van notes radar: a wastrel, alert, saw a radar set on navy sub.
But sad Eva saved a stub.
Cain: A maniac!
Camus sees sumac.
Cigar? Toss it in a can. It is so tragic.
Dabale arroz a la zorra el abad (The abbot was giving rice to the fox)
Daedalus: nine, Peninsula: dead.
Dairy myriad.
Damn! I, Agassi, miss again! Mad!
Deirdre wets altar of St. Simons - no mists, for at last ewer dried.
Denim axes examined.
Dennis and Edna sinned.
Dennis sinned.
Dennis, no Misfit can act if Simon sinned.
Depardieu, go razz a rogue I draped.
Detartrated
Devil Natasha, ah, Satan lived !
Did Eve salt an atlas? Eve did.
Did I draw Della too tall, Edward? I did?
Dior droid.
Do geese see God?
Do not start at rats to nod.
Doc, note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
Dr. Ana, Cataracts. Uranium enema smarts if fist rams, Amen! Emu in a rust car at a canard.
Dr. Lime, 121 Emil Rd.
Drat Sadat, a dastard!
Drat Saddam mad dastard.
Drat Saddam, a mad dastard!
Drat such custard!
Draw Ward
Draw no llama a mall onward.
Draw! oh, save Eva's Howard!
Draw, o coward!
Drowsy baby's word
Drowsy baby's word.
E. Borgnine drags Dad's gardening robe.
Ed, I saw Harpo Marx ram Oprah W. aside.
Egad! No bondage!
Egad, a base life defiles a bad age.
Egad, an adage!
Emil, a sleepy baby peels a lime.
Emil saw a slime.
Emil's niece in slime
Emit no gas, Otto: got to sag on time.
Emordnilap palindrome.
Emu fat sap pasta fume
Eros bonk mad dog, goddam knob sore
Eros' sis is sore.
Eros? Sidney, my end is sore.
Erotic, I gammon ever on, else partisan, I live evil in a sit. Rapes Lenore: venom magic I tore.
Esope reste ici et se repose (Aesop is resting here and relaxing)
Evil I did dwell, lewd did I live.
Evil olive.
Evil rats on no star live (attr. to Luke Skywalker)
Flee to me, remote elf.
Flesh! Saw I Mimi wash self!
Fool! A dog lives sad a boxer, Rex. O bad ass evil god aloof!
Garret, I ogle. Enemy democrats party; trap star comedy men, eel goiter rag.
Gateman's nametag.
Gert, I saw Ron avoid a radio-van - or was it Reg?
Gnu dung.
Go deliver a dare, vile dog.
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog.
God lived as a devil dog.
God saw I was dog.
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
God! Nate bit a Tibetan dog!
God, a slap! Paris, sir, appals a dog.
Goldenrod-adorned log
Golf? No sir, prefer prison flog.
Gustav Klimt milk vats - ug!
Hanah, Hanah, Hanah!
Harpoons away! Ya, was no Oprah.
Harass Sarah!
He goddam mad dog, eh?
He lived as a devil, eh?
He stops spots, eh?
He won snow, eh?
He won't, ah, wander, Edna. What now, eh?
Here we no got conical ill lilac in octogon ewer, eh?
I maim Miami.
I maim nine men in Miami.
I maim nine men in Saginaw; wan, I gas nine men in Miami.
I prevent u-boats, tar, evil live rats, Tao, but never pi.
I roamed under it as a tired, nude Maori.
I won, Karen, an era know I.
I'm runnin'! - Nurmi
I, Nora, came most egotistic--it's I--to get some macaroni.
I, Rasputin, knit up Sari.
I, man, am regal; a German am I.
I, zani Nazi.
If I had a hi-fi (The title of a book of palindromes.)
Is Don Adams mad? (A nod.) Si!
Jar a tonga, nag not a raj.
Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak.
Kayak salad - Alaska yak.
Kayak, redivider, space caps or gateman's nametag ?
Lager, Sir, is regal.
Laminated E.T. animal.
Lay a wallaby baby ball away, Al.
Leo hortet Rohoel.
Lepers repel.
Let O'Hara gain an inn in a niagara hotel.
Lew, Otto has a hot towel!
Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel.
Lisa Bonet ate no basil.
Live Evil
Live dirt up a side track carted is a putrid evil.
Live forever of evil
Live not on evil.
Lonely Tylenol.
"M" lab menial slain: embalm.
Ma has a ham.
Ma is a nun, as I am.
Ma is as selfless as I am.
Madam I'm Adam
Madam, in Eden, I'm Adam.
Malayalam...
Man, Eve let an irate tar in at eleven A.M.
Man, Oprah's sharp on A.M.
Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram.
May a moody baby doom a yam?
Mayhem, eh Yam?
"Miry rim! So many daffodils," Delia wailed, "slid off a dynamo's miry rim!"
Murder for a jar of red rum.
Must sell at tallest sum.
Name dam flewsh...H self-made man.
Name no one man.
Name tarts, no medieval slave I demonstrate man.
Naomi, did I moan?
Naomi, sex at noon taxes, I moan.
Natasha? Ah, Satan!
Ned, go gag Ogden.
Neil A. sees alien!
Never odd or even.
Niagara, O roar again!
No evil shah lives on.
No lemons, no melon.
No misses ordered roses, Simon.
No pinot noir on orion to nip on.
No, I met System Ion.
No, I tan, I'm at no contamination.
No, Mel Gibson is a casino's big lemon.
No, Mel, a sleepy baby peels a lemon.
No, it is opposition.
No, she stops spots, eh, son?
Nog eroded Oregon.
Noriega can idle, held in a cage...Iron!
Nosegay ages on.
Not New York, Roy went on.
Now I see bees I won.
Now Ned, I am a maiden nun: Ned, I am a maiden won.
Nurse! I spy gypsies! Run!
O, geronimo, no minor ego!
O, memsahib Bart, rabbi has memo.
O, stone, be not so.
O.E.D. or rodeo?
Oh, no! Don Ho!
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo.
Pa's a sap.
Paganini: Din in A Gap.
Paget saw an Irish tooth, Sir, in a waste gap.
Party boobytrap.
Plan no damn Madonna LP.
Poor Dan is in a droop.
Pot? No! I saw DNA and was I on top!
Pull up if I pull up.
Rat race lines oppose Nile car tar.
Rats drown in WordStar.
Rats live on no evil star.
Red Nevada vendor.
Red dude kill lion. No ill-liked udder.
Red lost case, Ma. Jesse James acts older.
Red rum, sir, is murder.
Redivider
Reflog a golfer
Reno loner
Retki dikter (The title of a book of palindromes.)
Revenge Meg? Never!
Reviled did I live, said I, as evil I did deliver.
Rise to vote, sir.
Rise, sir lapdog! Revolt, lover! God, pal, rise, sir!
Rise, take lame female Kate, sir.
Rococo "R".
Roger G. Gregor
Rot-corpse Sumatran art amuses proctor.
Rutabega to base: we sabotage Batur.
Sagas emit taxes, rat snot, or pastrami. I'm Arts, a proton star - sex at times a gas.
Salamander a ton now. Raw war won not, a Red Nam, alas.
Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas.
Senile Felines
Sex at noon taxes.
Sex-aware era waxes.
Sh, Tom sees moths.
Sir, I soon saw Bob was no Osiris.
Sir, I'm Iris.
Sis, Sargasso Moss a grass is.
Sis, ask Costner to not rent socks "As Is"!
Sit on a potato pan, Otis!
Slap a ham on Omaha, pals!
Sleep on no peels.
Sniff'um muffins.
So many dynamos.
So regards Rat's Lib: regrets no more hero monster gerbil stars' drag Eros.
So, G. Rivera's tots are virgos.
So, Ida, adios!
Solo gigolos.
Some men interpret nine memos.
Sore eye, Eros?
Sore was I ere I saw Eros.
Spit Q-tips!
St. Simon sees no mists.
Stab nail at ill Italian bats.
Star comedy by Democrats.
Stella won no wallets.
Step on no pets!
Step on no pets.
Stop! Murder us not, O tonsured rumpots!
Stop! Murder us not, tonsured rumpots!
Stop, Syrian! I start at rats in airy spots.
Strategem: megatarts.
Straw warts
Straw? No, too stupid a fad. I put soot on warts.
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus. -- Leigh Mercer
Sup not on pus.
Swen, on gnus, sung no news.
Tarzan raised Desi Arnaz' rat.
Tarzan raised a Desi Arnaz rat.
T. Eliot nixes sex in toilet!
T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad. "I'd assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet."
Ten animals I slam in a net.
'Tenor Octopus Night' netted a cadet tenth ginsu pot, coronet.
Tense, I snap Sharon roses, or Norah's pansies net.
The almanac can am laeth
The fat cop spoke in a strange tongue:"Eugnot egnarts a ni ekops poc taf eht."
To Idi Amin: I'm a idiot!
To Peru, named llama mall 'De Manure Pot'
Toni Tennille fell in net. I, not!
Too bad, I hid a boot.
Top step's pup's pet spot.
Trafalgar rag: La Fart
Trap all afoot; I too fall apart.
Tsetse bestest!
Tuna nut
U.F.O. tofu.
Unremarkable was I ere I saw Elba Kramer, nu?
Vanna, wanna V?
Vitaler Nebel mit Sinn ist im Leben relativ.
Viva le te de Tel Aviv
Vote to not slip up, refer pupils to note TOV.
Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Was it a rat I saw?
Was raw tap ale not a reviver at one lap at Warsaw?
We few erase cares, Al; laser aces are we few.
We placed a decal pew.
We repaid a no name Pacific ape man on a diaper, ew!
We seven, Eve, sew.
Won total, I am a pro. Bali radar I labor. Pa, mail a tot now!
Won't lover's Revolt now?
Won't lovers revolt now?
Yawn a more Roman way.
Yell upset a cider: predicates pulley.
Yo! Bottoms up, U.S. Motto, boy!
Yo, bad anaconda had no Canada boy
Yo, boy! Trap gnus, nude. 'Kangaroo Rag' naked unsung party, O boy!
You can cage a swallow can't you but you can't swallow a cage can you?
Yreka Bakery
From /usr/dict/words:
AAA
ABA
ala
AMA
ana
bib
bob
bub
CDC
civic
dad
deed
DOD
dud
eke
ere
eve
ewe
eye
gag
gig
gog
huh
ii
iii
level
madam
minim
mum
non
noon
nun
pap
PDP
peep
pep
pip
poop
pop
pup
radar
refer
rever
rotor
sis
s's
tat
teet
tenet
tit
TNT
toot
tot
wow
1.3 Longer English palindromes
Adam said: Madam, I'm Adam
To which she replied: Eve
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Haven't seen this palindrome in here yet ... this is by Ernest Angell,
and you're supposed to assume that the speaker is an insane war
veteran in a government hospital.
"Marge, let dam dogs in. Am on satire: Vow I am Cain. Am on spot.
Am a Jap sniper. Red, raw murder on G.I.! Ignore drum. (Warder
repins pajama tops.) No maniac, Ma! Iwo veritas: no man is God. --
Mad Telegram."
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The little old lady could not believe her ears, when, after the lightning
struck the telephone, the voice of the town sheriff, who had call her
to discuss the upcoming election, sounded peculiarly odd as he said,
"diase hwad doylra iluc epded nuos noit celegnim ocpuehts sucsidot rehl lacda
hohwf firehsn woteh tfoe ciov ehten ohpel eteht kcurt sgnint hgile htretfan
ehwsrae reh eveil ebt ond luocy ald loelt tileht."
(Constructed by some people at CMU).
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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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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, Bette, 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.
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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
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From: chrisk@access.digex.net (Chris Kocsis)
Flee to me, remote elf--Sal a dewan desired;
Now is a Late-Petal Era.
We fade: lucid Iris, red Rose of Sharon;
Goldenrod a silly ram ate.
Wan olives teem (ah, Satan lives!);
A star eyes pale Roses.
Revel, big elf on a mayonnaise man--
A tinsel baton-dragging nice elf too.
Lisp, Oh Sibyl, dragging Nola along;
Niggardly bishops i loot.
Fleecing niggard notables Nita names,
I annoy a Man of Legible Verse.
So relapse, ye rats,
As evil Natasha meets Evil
On a wet, amaryllis-adorned log.
Norah's foes' orders (I ridiculed a few) are late, pet.
Alas, I wonder! Is Edna wed?
Alas--flee to me, remote elf.
(By Howard W. Bergerson? The above and many, many, many wonderful
palindromes are from the book "Palindromes and Anagrams," by Bergerson,
published by Dover Publications, Inc., 180 Varick St., NY NY 10014.)
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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.
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The greatest palindrome comes from "Through the Looking Glass and What
Alice Found There", by the great Lewis Carroll:
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe
Ebargtuo shtar emom eht dna
Sevogorob eht erew ysmim lla
Ebaw eht ni elbmig dna eryg did
Sevot yhtils eht dna ,gillirb sawt.
(Courtesy of the Professor Incorrect)
1.4 A man, a plan...
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. --Dan Hoey, 'discovered' in 1984.
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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
2. Palindromes in other languages
2.1 Finnish
From someone's message:
] Yes, Finnish is *the* palindrome language. Some guys have even written
] a book of poetry, called "Retki dikter", all poems being palindromes.
Suolatalous Salt economy
Saippuakauppias Soap dealer
Saippuakalasalakauppias
Solutomaattimittaamotulos The result from a measurement laboratory for tomatoes
Innostunut sonni Excited bull
Tosi isot, siis tosi isot Big ones, real big ones
Aki söi läänin. Ääliö sika! Aki ate a state. Stupid pig!
Iso rikas sika sökösakissa kirosi - a very rich pig cursed in a stud poker gang
Alli pamautti vittua mapilla - Alli smacked (her) cunt with a binder.
Isä, älä myy myymälääsi - father, don't sell your shop
Nuutti- vaari oksensi bisneskoiraa vittuun.
It means: Grandfather Nuutti puked into the cunt of the business dog.
Oi, palatsissa katosi is{, siis ota kassista lapio.
Alli lepona papin eka, pelle pakeni papan Opelilla.
Anus puhisi hupsuna.
Nai punasolut ulos, Anu, pian!
No Maria Airam on
Anu Maamuna
Ismo K. Komsi
Alli lepona papin eka, pelle pakeni papan Opelilla.
Ah, sie gigolo, iso sosiologi geisha.
Iske, Simo U! H{{t riist{j{t siirt{{ huomiseksi!
Ajaja nai. "Saisipa naisia, naisia, naisia, naisia", napisi asianajaja.
Etsi poni apinani painopiste
Ian Asseria Zairessa Nai
Is{n n{kem{tt{ me k{nn{si!
Aattoisin isi ottaa.
No, elin n{kyy. Syy: k{nni Leon.
Y{k aatos: Kari-asu --- USA-Irak: sotaa k{y.
Y{k, Alli, Esa! Aatos: Kari-asu --- USA-Irak: sotaa aseilla k{y.
--
From: saarki@tarzan.math.jyu.fi (Ari Saastamoinen)
Two boys were send to the shop with the following lists:
Allu: pitokania, lavarautaa
Aatu: aravalaina, kotipulla
Anna pennis
-ok
tuli haavi
ivaa
hilutko sinne panna
2.2 Dutch
parterretrap (some kind of stairway (trap is a stairway, partere is lounge)
lepel (spoon)
edelstaalplaatslede (a stainless steel tray, part of an oven)
nepparterrestaalplaatserretrappen
"A stairway to/from the ground floor, from/to the sun-room,
which is made out of fake steel" (or whatever)
Mooie zeden in Ede, zei Oom (Nice customs in Ede, said Uncle)
Nelli plaatst op 'n parterre trap 'n pot staalpillen.
which means that some broad called Nelli is messing around
with pills on above meant stairway (or something like that).
For those who want to read more: the book "Opperlandse Taal- en Letterkunde"
by Battus contains lots of palindromes in Dutch (plus a load of other
acrobatical linguistics).
2.3 French
Elu par cette crapule (Elected by that crook)
Esope reste ici et se repose (Esope stays here and rests)
Tu l'as trop ecrase cesar ce port salut.
2.4 German
Ein Neger mit Gazelle zagt im Regen nie.
(A negro with gazelle never despairs in rain")
Eine treue Familie bei Lima feuerte nie
(A loyal family near Lima never fired)
2.5 Greek
nispon onomama ma monon opsin
Translation: Wash your sins, not just your face....
This only works if you remember that "ps" is one letter psi in Greek.
2.6 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.)
This is the only known two-dimensional palindrome.
2.7 Slovak
tahat (to pull)
It appears often on doors - it is really joyfull when you can read it
from either side :-)
Jelenovi pivo nelej. Don't pour the beer to a stag (red deer).
2.8 Spanish
Dabale arroz a la zorra el abad.
2.9 Swedish
Ni talar bra latin (you speak good Latin)
märk stupid abrakadabra: ur fin ränsel lyfta rappa japaner samma mimosa som i
mammas rena pajapparat fylles när ni fruar bada karbad i putskräm
2.10 Welsh
Llad dafad dall (kill a blind sheep)
3. Credits
Unfortunately, it's impossible to give credit separately all the numerous
submissions in rec.humor, eunet.jokes, and sfnet.keskustelu.vitsit.
However, the most significant part of these palindromes has come from:
Steve Hoffman (steveh@eskimo.com)
Pete Biggs (pete@physchem.ox.ac.uk)
Dan Hoey (Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil)
/usr/dict/words and fortunes files
Credits for the rare language ones:
Dutch: Big Beng (beng@wsooti03.info.win.tue.nl)
Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@caution.cistron.nl.mugnet.org)
French: Marc Philips (marc@cfmu.eurocontrol.be),
Greg Scullard (gs@dsbc.icl.co.uk)
Greek: Ray Harder (rharder@eis.calstate.edu)
Latin,Welch: Pete Biggs (pete@physchem.ox.ac.uk)
Slovak: Stefan Petrucha (petrucha@mff.uniba.cs)
Spanish: Jaime Lopez Hartmann (jlha@se.alcbel.be)
Swedish: Pete Biggs (pete@physchem.ox.ac.uk)
Terry Siederer (etxsied@mega.ericsson.se),
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