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What do you call a word that when spelled backwards, is the same as when spelled forwards?
Like Bob, Wakaw, etc.? I forget.....
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Palindrome. It's good for whole phrases and sentences. Able was I ere I saw Elba.
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Wouldn't it be so much more clever if the word for a palindrome was itself a palindrome?
A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.
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Hello, big boy. We normally discuss this kind of query under Announcements and Miscellaneous and Animal Safari 
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In reply to:
We normally discuss this kind of query under Announcements and Miscellaneous
Yes, and any announcements or miscellaneous posts are posted here in "Q&A." :P
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maverick, you're encourageable!
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yeahbut. Who is going to admit to being Huge? 
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Wouldn't it be so much more clever if the word for a palindrome was itself a palindrome?
..So that ouroboros could bite its tail after having wound itself into a double helix...
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Thank y'all so much. I am truly more smarter than ever now.
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Who is going to admit to being Huge?
Every man on the planet?
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