How to Read a Palindrome

A palindrome is a word, group of words or a sentence that can be read the same backwards as it can frontward. The letters are the same no matter which way the word or sentence is read. The following will show you how to read several types of palindromes.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Read a one-word palindrome by reading it the regular way and then reading it back to front. For example, "level" is a palindrome because if you read it frontward or backwards it is read the same. Some other palindromes are eye, deed, rotor, madam, pop, civic, radar, toot and nun.

2. Read a two-word palindrome by reading it backwards and changing the spacing. For instance, "race car" is a two-word palindrome, as well as "A Toyota." If you change the spacing, it is read the same backwards as frontward.

3. Read a palindrome sentence by reading it backwards and changing the spacing of the words and the punctuation to create the same sentence as reading it frontward. For example, "Rise to vote, sir" has the same letters in the sentence backward as it does forward.

4. Read a word-unit palindrome by reading it frontward and backward by words instead of letters. For example, "Women Understand Men; Few Men Understand Women" is a word-unit palindrome because if you read it backwards by words it is read the same.

5. Read a mirrored-palindrome by reading it backwards in a mirrored reverse. For example, "bid" is a mirrored palindrome because it mirrors itself on both sides. However, if capitalized, "BID" is not a mirrored palindrome.

6. Read a palindrome square, which is a square separated into 3 by 3 blocks (three rows and three columns), 4 by 4, 5 by 5 or 6 by 6, by reading the words in each column frontward and backward and the words in each row frontward and backward. No matter which way they are read, they are the same.

Resources

• Website to Find Palindromes
• Another List of Palindromes

[thedogshrink]

on 12/13/2008 Nice article!

[thedogshrink]

on 12/13/2008 Nice article!