As noted in the previous feature , early palindromes were written in Greek and then in Latin. However, other cultures also took up the search for the elusive palindrome. In 1980, Giles Selig Hales claimed to have written 'the world's longest palindrome'. It consisted of 58,795 letters. In 1967, Joyce Johnson wrote one of the best long palindromes for a New Statesman competition.
Some palindromes reorder complete words instead of each letter.
These tend to make more sense. The writer, J. A. Lindon, was somewhat of an expert at this. So patient a doctor to doctor a patient so. Girl, bathing on Bikini, eying boy, finds boy eying bikini on bathing girl. Die all we shall.