Sunday, 26 February 2017

Palindromes (Phrases)


Palindromes (Phrases)



Phrases
  • Able was I ere I saw Elba.
  •  A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.
  • Doc, note, I Dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
  • Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida, Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina, Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl, Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden, Noel, and Ellen sinned.
  • I made border bard’s drowsy swords; drab, red robed am I.
  • Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak.
  • Name no side in Eden, I’m mad! A maid I am, Adam mine; denied is one man.
  • Madam, I’m Adam.
  • Pull up if I pull up.
  • Rats live on no evil star.
  • Nurse, I spy gypsies, run!
  • Lion oil.
  • Dog’s god.
  • Degas, are we not drawn onward, no? In union, drawn onward to new eras aged?
  • God’s dog.
  • Live evil.
  • Rise to vote, sir.
  • Too hot to hoot.
  • Dennis and Edna sinned.
  • Was it a cat I saw?
  • Was it a car or a cat I saw?
  • Evil olive
  • Dammit I’m mad
  • Racecar
  • Taco cat
  • Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas
  • Step on no Pets
  • A butt tuba
  • On a clover, if alive, erupts a vast pure evil; a fire volcano
  • Ten animals I slam in a net
  • Sit on a potato pan, Otis.
  • Wonton? Not now.
  • Yo banana boy.
  • Was it a bar or a bat I saw?
  • I man am Regal, a German am I
  • Never odd or even
  • If I had a Hi-Fi
  • No lemon, no melon
  • Too bad I hid a boot
  • Lisa Bonet ate no basil
  • Warsaw was raw
  • Do geese see god?
  • Do nine men interpret? “Nine men,” I nod.
  • Won’t lovers revolt now?
  • Race fast, safe car
  • Pa’s a sap
  • Ma is as selfless as I am
  • May a moody baby doom a yam?
  • Ah, Satan sees Natasha
  • No devil lived on
  • Lonely Tylenol
  • Not a banana baton
  • No “x” in “Nixon”
  • O, stone, be not so
  • O Geronimo, no minor ego
  • “Naomi,” I moan
  • A Toyota’s a Toyota
  • A dog, a panic, in a pagoda
  • Oh no! Don Ho!
  • Senile felines
  • Now I see bees I won
  • UFO tofu
  • We panic in a pew
  • Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
  • God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
  • Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog
  • A butt tuba
  • Draw, o coward!


Symmetry by words

Some palindromes use words as units rather than letters.
  • You can cage a swallow, can’t you, but you can’t swallow a cage, can you?
  • Fall leaves as soon as leaves fall.
  • So patient a nurse to nurse a patient so.
  • “Come, shall I touch you wherever, darling? I am so randy.” “So am I, darling; wherever you touch I shall come.”
  • “Son, I am able,” she said, “though you scare me.” “Watch,” said I, “beloved.” I said, “Watch me scare you.” “Though,” said she, “able am I, son.”
  • First ladies rule the state, and state the rule: “Ladies First!


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