Daily Palindrome

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Comment by lassie on July 20, 2009 at 8:26am

Palindromes as a form of wordplay have been created for many centuries. For example, the ancient Greeks are known to have often inscribed the following onto their fountains:

Nipson anomemata me monan opsin.
It translates as wash the sin as well as the face. Sharp-eyed readers will notice that the above it not actually a palindrome. This is because we have written it using letters of the English alphabet; when Greek characters are used it is a palindrome because ps is a single letter in Greek (Y).

The Romans were also admirers of palindromes, and produced such sentences as:


In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.
It means we enter the circle after dark and are consumed by fire and is said to describe the movement of moths.