#34682
07/05/2001 7:54 PM
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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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#34683
07/05/2001 8:01 PM
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Palindrome. It's good for whole phrases and sentences. Able was I ere I saw Elba.
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#34684
07/05/2001 11:20 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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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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#34685
07/05/2001 11:35 PM
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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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#34686
07/05/2001 11:42 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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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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#34687
07/06/2001 12:00 AM
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maverick, you're encourageable!
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#34688
07/06/2001 3:41 AM
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yeahbut. Who is going to admit to being Huge? 
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#34689
07/06/2001 4:57 AM
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old hand
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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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#34690
07/06/2001 8:30 AM
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stranger
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Thank y'all so much. I am truly more smarter than ever now.
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#34691
07/06/2001 12:50 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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Who is going to admit to being Huge?
Every man on the planet?
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#34692
07/06/2001 1:34 PM
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old hand
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>> Who is going to admit to being Huge? > Every man on the planet?You know, to keep this word-related, we could discuss the difference between "admit to" and "claim".  Nice one, SE...
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#34693
07/06/2001 1:55 PM
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Of course no man on the planet would want to be subjected to the scorn of "the young nun from Peru".
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#34694
07/06/2001 2:37 PM
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we could discuss the difference between "admit to" and "claim".
I *was going to make a comment to the effect that admit to implied some sort of guilt on the part of the one doing the admitting, but I see I don't need to.
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#34695
07/06/2001 2:51 PM
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>...admit to implied some sort of guilt on the part of the one doing the admitting...
Now I think we're talking about the difference between "claim" and "proclaim".
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#34696
07/06/2001 7:27 PM
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veteran
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Come on, Dr. Bill, are you going to give us the rest:
There was a young nun from Peru,
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#34697
07/06/2001 7:32 PM
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who took a short trip to the zoo.
When she saw all the penguins...
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#34698
07/29/2001 4:19 PM
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newbie
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saippuakivikauppias=19 letters,a dealer in lye
tattarrattat=12 letters
(*=foreign character)
NI*ON ANOMHMATAMH.M.ONANO*IN=25 letters,wash(my)sins,not only(my)face.
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#34699
07/29/2001 5:13 PM
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#34700
07/29/2001 10:10 PM
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"NI*ON ANOMHMATAMH.M.ONANO*IN"
"When you call me that," the Virginian said, "smile."
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#34701
07/29/2001 10:23 PM
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Is it physically possible, Bill?!
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#34702
07/30/2001 12:22 AM
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It looks like a swear word. I couldn't pronounce it, and I wouldn't dare try it smile or no smile, to the Virginian gunfighter.
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#34703
07/30/2001 4:42 AM
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NI*ON ANOMHMATAMH.M.ONANO*IN=25 letters,wash(my)sins,not only(my)face.
whhhaaaaa...?
It's Greek. The asterisks are the letter psi (=ps). The H is a capital eta (long e) not a capital h. It should read:
NIPSON ANOMHMA MH MONON OPSIN
It's often found on baptismal fonts.
Bingley
Bingley
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#34704
07/30/2001 1:13 PM
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saippuakivikauppias=19 letters,a dealer in lye
Looks Finnish to me.
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