Palindromes
A palindrome is a word, phrase, sentence or number that reads exactly the same forwards as backwards. As with units of measure, I don’t know why they fascinate me but they do.
I realize now that I should have saved this post for Dec. 2nd, as that is a palindromic date (12/02/2021), at least in the mm/dd/yyyy format. For many countries in Europe and elsewhere, that date was Feb. 12th, 2021.
The next palindromic date will be Feb. 22nd of 2022 in the dd/mm/yyyy format. For the U.S. and other countries that commonly put the month first, it won’t be until Dec. 12th, 2121 that we have another palindromic date.
The Internet contains many lists of word/phrase palindromes in different languages. One of my favorites in English is “Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo.”
Here endeth the lesson on palindromes.
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