I love palindromes. Why I don't know but I think they are pretty cool and this afternoon while I was surfing the web, I stumbled across one of the longest palindromes I've ever heard in my life. What is a palindrome you may be asking? The definition (according to Merriam Webster) is a word, verse, sentence or a number that reads the same backward or forward. So easy examples would be "bob", "winnow" or "1881". However, once you get beyond a few letters I'm hard pressed to think of palindromes, which is why I was so impressed when I read this one, "was it a cat i saw". W-A-S-I-T-A-C-A-T-I-S-A-W
Do you know of any other palindromes that are equally impressive?
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Oy - not certain I'll be able to share this one with my friends, but thanks for the comment any way.
I remember a palindromic page back in the early 2000s that had an actual sentence that in itself was a palindrome but I think the page has been removed...
Wikipedia has quite an article on the topic with the longest official word (in Finnish): saippuakivikauppias
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