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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 Ana, Oto, Hannah or Renner, your name is a palindrome. Backwards or forwards, it is spelled the same way.

Palindromes may consist of a single word: acaiaca, ala, anilina, arara, esse, iriri, mamam, matam, omo, osso, racificar, radar, reter, rever, reviver, sacas, salas, seres, saras, socos, sapas, solos, seles, somavamos, somos.

Palindromes may be phrase or sentence:  A base do teto desaba.

Other known palindromes in Portuguese are:

Ame a ema.

Ame o poema.

A miss é péssima!

Amora me tem aroma.

Amor é de Roma.

Ana lava Lana.

Roma é amor.

On the 20th of February 2002 it was 20:02 02/20 2002 (numeric palindrome) 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.

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 Ana, Eve, or Otto, your name is a palindrome. Backwards or forwards, it is spelled the same way.

Palindromes may consist of a single word: arenera, arepera, anilina, ananá, Oruro, oso, radar, reconocer, rotor, somos, seres, salas.

Palindromes may be phrase or sentence:  Anita lava la tina (Anita cleans the bath tub), Adan nada (Adan swims).

Other known palindromes in Spanish are:

La ruta nos aportó otro paso natural  (The route provided us with another natural passage).

Anita la gorda lagartona no traga la droga latina.

Nada, yo soy Adán.

No lata, no: la totalidad arada dilato talón a talón.

No solo no lo son.

Sé verlas al revés.

On the 20th of February 2002 it was 20:02 02/20 2002 (numeric palindrome) 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.

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 Neven, Eve, or Otto, your name is a palindrome. Backwards or forwards, it is spelled the same way.

Palindromes may consist of a single word: radar, rotor, kayak, ressasser, malayalam.

Palindromes may be phrase or sentence:  Esope reste ici et se repose. (Aesop is resting here and relaxing.)

Other known palindromes in French are:

Elu par cette crapule. (Elected by that crook.)

Tu l’as trop ecrase cesar ce port salut.

Etna: lave devalante. (Etna: spreading lava.)

Et Luc colporte trop l’occulte. (And Luc spreads occult things too much)

A l’autel elle alla, elle le tua la. (To the altar she went, she killed him there.)

Ce repère, Perec.

Léon, émir cornu, d’un roc rime Noël.

Caser vite ce palindrome ne mord ni lape cet ivre sac

On the 20th of February 2002 it was 20:02 02/20 2002 (numeric palindrome) 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.

The “Grand Palindrome” (1969) by novelist Georges Perec is the longest palindrome published in French, with 5 566 letters, which is the result of the palindromic multiplication 11*23*2*11.

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 Anna, Hannah, or Otto, your name is a palindrome. Backwards or forwards, it is spelled the same way.

Palindromes may consist of a single word: Lagerregal / Regallager, Reittier, Reliefpfeiler, Rotor.

Palindromes may be phrase or sentence: “Ein Neger mit Gazelle zagt im Regen nie” (A negro with gazelle never despairs in rain).

Other known palindromes in German are:

Eine treue Familie bei Lima feuerte nie (A loyal family near Lima never fired.)

Reit nie tot ein Tier

Die Liebe ist Sieger; stets rege ist sie bei Leid.

Ein Esel lese nie.

Trug Tim eine so helle Hose nie mit Gurt?

O Genie, der Herr ehre Dein Ego!

Eine güldne, gute Tugend: Lüge nie!

On the 20th of February 2002 it was 20:02 02/20 2002 (numeric palindrome) 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.

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.

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 Hannah, Bob, Eve or Anna, your name is a palindrome. Backwards or forwards, it is spelled the same way.

Palindromes may consist of a single word: civic, level, rotor, kayak, madam, sexes, radar.

Palindromes may be phrase or sentence: “Was it a rat I saw?”, “Cigar? Toss it in a can. It is so tragic”.

Three famous English palindromes are:  ”A man, a plan, a canal—Panama!”, ”Madam, in Eden I’m Adam”, and “Able was I ere I saw Elba” - a phrase purportedly spoken by Napoleon, referring to his first sighting of Elba, the island where the British exiled him.

Other known palindromes are:

fall leaves after leaves fall

Madam, I’m Adam

Never odd or even

No lemon, no melon

Was it a car or a cat I saw?

Level madam, level! is remarkable as not only is it a grammatically correct sentence that is palindromic, but each word in it is also a palindrome.

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.

@promt Standalone Electronic Dictionary enlarged database contains up to 1,000,000 word combinations and enables quick translation of almost any word or phrase. The Electronic dictionary is a reference tool that combines the entire PROMT specialized dictionaries database.

The Dictionary provides the access to the grammar and morphological information of each selected word and can be integrated into MS Word 97/2000/XP via Tools->Options menu.

 Using resized version

PROMT Electronic Dictionary can be resized to the ED Light mode.

Select View-> Switch to ED Light mode. With the right-click on the word, you can see its context menu with the options of copying the word to the Clipboard or viewing all of the word forms.

The left-click on the word will display word-related grammar information.

The Electronic dictionary database can be supplemented with the user dictionary, if you have built one. Use Customize ED Dictionaries program to add the user dictionary to the ED database and create an alphabetical list of the attached dictionaries.

Websites translation

PromtE module integrates the translation functions into Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x-7.x. so that any foreign web page can be translated in real time.

After the program installation the Translate and Customize Translation Options commands appear in the Microsoft Internet Explorer Tools menu.

1. To translate a web page, select the Translate command from the Tools menu, or click the right mouse button on the selected text and choose the Translate page command from the pop-up menu.

2. Customize the translation options: translation direction, add dictionaries, etc.

3. @promt Express provides a set of special tools that make it easy to extract information from foreign-language web sites without the need to understand the language.

· Manage the translation process through the toolbar or a shortcut menu right in the browser.

· Attach specialized dictionaries to improve the quality of web-page translation on those topics.

· Save translation settings for selected web pages so they’re automatically translated next time you visit them.

· Retain your personal customization settings for future visits to specific pages.

PDF files translation.

@promt plug-in for Adobe Acrobat® and Adobe Acrobat Reader® 5.0-8.0 gives you the most convenient approach to PDF document translation. 

1. Open Adobe Acrobat, choose the direction of translation, highlight the text to be translated and select Plug-Ins-> Translation -> Translate.

2. The translated text appears in a separate translation window. The translation can then be copied and pasted into any Windows application.

PROMT can read the text

PromtX includes the TTS module (text-to-speech), which can read the original and translated text.

Select Tools-> Speech-> Speak menu or press F5 to activate the speech function.

You can also customize the speech parameters such as voice, pitch, volume and speed.

Improve the translation results - create the user dictionary

You can add word and word combinations or edit existing translations.

To enter a new word, do the following:

1. Open the word Entry window from the Translation->Entry menu or highlight the word and press F8 .

2. In the Word (Collocation) text box type the source word or word combination you wish to add or edit within the dictionary.

3. Select the user dictionary from the Save In list box. The entry will be saved in the selected user dictionary.

4. Specify the User’s Skill (Beginner or Professional), that will allow you to work with the dictionary information in the most convenient way.

5. You can enter or edit nouns, adjectives, verbs or adverbs only.

6. Follow the wizard steps.

Note: In order to add new words or word combinations to the user dictionary, you must have a sufficient knowledge of both languages. Beginner user’s skills allows you to enter minimum language information, while the Professional mode is intended for more experienced users.