Palindromes and vocabulary!

festschrift- A volume of learned articles or essays by colleagues and admirers, serving as a tribute or memorial especially to a scholar.

Cybernetics- The general study of control and communication systems in living organisms and machines, especially the mathematical analysis of the flow of information. The term cybernetics was coined by Norbert Wiener, an American mathematician of the twentieth century.

 

In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni. We go wandering at night and are consumed by fire (latin to english).

I don’t know when my fascination with palindromes began but I used to keep a list of palindromes in a book of lists I had, it was stolen in a bag awhile ago and I just started collecting them again. I like to collect them from people, so if you have a good one comment it and I’ll add it to my list with acknowledgement. I’ve just begun.

Single word palindromes or words that when placed together with their exact reverse are palindromes:

Stressed desserts (a cafe in Soho), racecar, poop, hannah, madam

Phrase or sentence palindromes:

rise to vote sir, “a man, a plan, a canal, panama”, “sex at noon, taxes” (Matt Brown), “Sit on a potato pan, Otis”, “Neil, a trap! Sid is part alien!”, “Go hang a salami I’m a lasagna hog.”, “Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas”, “I roamed under it as a tired nude Maori”, “madam, I’m adam”(Sarah harling), “See, slave, I demonstrate yet arts no medieval sees” and “live devil” (Boris Fain),

Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas

Above is very cool palindrome that when put into a box five squares across by five squares down reads the same way in four different directions. Also notice when you take the first letters of all the words, it spells the first word, and so on with the second, third, fourth and fifth letters, the words are each reproduced in order. It means “The sower Arepo holds the wheels at work.” I found this one on wikipedia.