From: dmsilev@athena.mit.edu (Daniel M Silevitch)
Subject: Re: Palindrome
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 12:35:26 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.183252.14880@mprgate.mpr.ca>, dyck@mpr.ca (Trevor Dyck) writes:
|> In article <VANDER.92Oct5201626@vancouver.stars.flab.Fujitsu.co.jp> vander@flab.fujitsu.co.jp (Mike van der Velden) writes:
|> >A friend of mine sent me this one:
|> >
|> >------------------
|> >
|> >  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.
|> > 
|> 
|> Huh?  I don't get it... it's not a palindrome!  A palindrome is a word
|> which is the same spelled backwards (i.e. "madam")

This appears to be a palindrome (I haven't checked the whole thing, but the ends
are correct). A palindrome does not have to be just one word, and multi-word
palindromes are allowed to move spaces around. The classic example, of which the
above is an expansion is "A man, a plan, a canal-Panama." I've even heard of
someone who wrote a 50,000 word palindromic book. I  forget the name of the book,
but I believe it is a world record.

|> 
|> >--
|> >Mike van der Velden
|> >Distributed Systems Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan
|> >e-mail: vander@flab.fujitsu.co.jp
|> >
|> >ps. If you send me a picture postcard      Mike van der Velden
|> >    from your area to the address at       Fujitsu Unoki Dormitory, room 227
|> >    right, I'll send you one from Tokyo.   2-17-18 Unoki, Ota-ku, Tokyo 146
|> >    Postcards must be received by          Japan
|> >    November 15, 1992
|> 
|> 
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 Daniel Silevitch                      dmsilev@athena.mit.edu