Do you know what a Palindrome is? (Russian)
Aug 15th, 2007 by Julia
A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or sentence that reads the same in either direction.
The word “palindrome” was coined from the Greek roots (palin) “back” and (dromos) “way, direction”.
If you are called Анна, Алла, Боб or Натан, your name is a palindrome. Backwards or forwards, it is spelled the same way.
Palindromes may consist of a single word: ротор, мадам, кабак, лапал, доход, казак, комок, наган, потоп, радар, шалаш, топот, шабаш, ротатор.
Palindromes may be phrase or sentence: Умер, и мир ему. Мир как Рим.
The famous Russian palindrome is: А РОЗА УПАЛА НЕ НА ЛАПУ АЗОРА
Other known palindromes in Russian are:
А муза - раба разума.
И городу дорог огород у дороги.
А муза рада музе без ума да разума.
Он в аду давно.
Ешь немытого ты меньше!
Коту скоро сорок суток.
Леша на полке клопа нашел.
Не женат, а нежен.
Я не стар брат Сеня.
Oколо Миши молоко.
Меня истина манит сияньем.
On the 20th of February 2002 it was 20:02 02/20 2002 Peter Norwig created a computer program which generated the world’s longest palindrome. It consisted of 17,259 words. This is a simple sequence of words, but the text itself makes no sense.