PALÍNDROMOS
INGLESES VARIADOS
Javier García Algarramand, extraídos del e-mail, “Un chorro de palindromos”
en inglés. Se trata de una colección de palíndromos clásicos ampliados mediante
la inclusión de un núcleo central palindrómico encajante. Los
resultados son a veces verdaderas explosiones:
The first words spoken were a palindrome:
Madam, I'm Adam.
or perhaps:
Madam in Eden, I'm Adam.
The response, of course, must have been:
Eve
Napolean's lament:
Able was I ere I saw
Has been improved with:
Unremarkable was I ere I saw
A fish is a:
laminar animal
The timeless classic:
A man, a plan, a canal --
-- Leigh Mercer
Has been improved by:
A dog, a plan, a canal: pagoda!
-- Roger Angell
A man, a plan, a cat, a
canal;
-- Jim Saxe, plan file @ CMU,
A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam,
a hat, a canal--
-- Guy Jacobson, plan file @ CMU late 1983
A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, a myriad, a
sum, a lac, a liar, ahoop, a pint, a catalpa, a gas, an oil, a bird, a yell, a
vat, a caw, a pax, a wag, a tax, a nay, a ram, a cap, a yam, a gay, a tsar, a
wall, a car, a luger, a ward, a bin, a woman, a vassal, a wolf, a tuna, a nit,
a pall, a fret, a watt, a bay, a daub, a tan, a cab, a datum, a gall, a hat, a
fag, a zap, a say, a jaw, a lay, a wet, a gallop, a tug, a trot, a trap, a
tram, a torr, a caper, a top, a tonk, a toll, a ball, a fair, a sax, a minim, a
tenor, a bass, a passer, a capital, a rut, an amen, a ted, a cabal, a tang, a
sun, an ass, a maw, a sag, a jam, a dam, a sub, a salt, an axon, a sail, an ad,
a wadi, a radian, a room, a rood, a rip, a tad, a pariah, a revel, a reel, a
reed, a pool, a plug, a pin, a peek, a parabola, a dog, a pat, a cud, a nu, a
fan, a pal, a rum, a nod, an eta, a lag, an eel, a batik, a mug, a mot, a nap,
a maxim, a mood, a leek, a grub, a gob, a gel, a drab, a citadel, a total, a
cedar, a tap, a gag, a rat, a manor, a bar, a gal, a cola, a pap, a yaw, a tab,
a raj, a gab, a nag, a pagan, a bag, a jar, a bat, a way, a papa, a local, a
gar, a baron, a mat, a rag, a gap, a tar, a decal, a tot, a led, a tic, a bard,
a leg, a bog, a burg, a keel, a doom, a mix, a map, an atom, a gum, a kit, a
baleen, a gala, a ten, a don, a mural, a pan, a faun, a ducat, a pagoda, a lob,
a rap, a keep, a nip, a gulp, a loop, a deer, a leer, a lever, a hair, a pad, a
tapir, a door, a moor, an aid, a raid, a wad, an alias, an ox, an atlas, a bus,
a madam, a jag, a saw, a mass, an anus, a gnat, a lab, a cadet, an em, a
natural, a tip, a caress, a pass, a baronet, a minimax, a sari, a fall, a
ballot, a knot, a pot, a rep, a carrot, a mart, a part, a tort, a gut, a poll,
a gateway, a law, a jay, a sap, a zag, a fat, a hall, a gamut, a dab, a can, a
tabu, a day, a batt, a waterfall, a patina, a nut, a flow, a lass, a van, a
mow, a nib, a draw, a regular, a call, a war, a stay, a gam, a yap, a cam, a
ray, an ax, a tag, a wax, a paw, a cat, a valley, a drib, a lion, a saga, a
plat, a catnip, a pooh, a rail, a calamus, a dairyman, a bater, a
canal--Panama.
--Dan Hoey, 'discovered' in 1984.
Dan goes on to say "...a little work on
the search algorithm could make
it several times as long."
Those wonderful proper names:
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.
A poem:
Mood's
mode!
Pallas,
I won!
(Diaper
pane, sold entire.)
Melt
till ever sere, hide it.
Drown
a more vile note;
(Tar
of rennet.)
Ah,
trowel, baton, eras ago.
The reward? A "nisi." Two nag.
Otary
tastes putrid, yam was green.
Odes
up and on; stare we.
Rats
nod. Nap used one-erg saw.
(May
dirt upset satyr?)
A toga now; 'tis in a drawer, eh?
Togas
are notable.
(Worth a tenner for Ate`.)
Tone liver. O Man, word-tied I.
Here's
revel!
Little merit, Ned? Lose, Nap?
Repaid
now is all apedom's doom.
--
Hubert Phillips:
Headmaster's Palindromic List on his Memo Pad:
Test
on Erasmus
Deliver
slap
Royal:
phone no.?
Ref.
Football.
Is
sofa sitable on?
XI--Staff
over
Sub-edit
Nurse's order
Caning
is on test (snub slip-up)
Birch
(Sid) to help Miss Eve
Repaper
den
Use
it
Put
inkspot on stopper
Prof.--no
space
Caretaker (wall, etc.)
Too
many d*** pots
Wal for duo? (I'd name Dr. O)
See
few owe fees (or demand IOU?)
Dr
of Law
Stop
dynamo (OTC)
Tel:
Law re Kate Race
Caps
on for prep
Pots-
no tops
Knit
up ties ('U')
Ned
(re paper)
Eve's
simple hot dish (crib)
Pupil's
buns
T-set:
no sign in a/c
Red
roses
Run
Tide Bus?
Rev
off at six
Noel
Bat is a fossil
Lab
to offer one 'Noh' play--
or 'Pals Reviled'?
Sums
are not set.
-- Joyce Johnson
(_New_Statesman_ competition in 1967. 126 words, 467 letters)
The entire book Satire: Veritas is a palindrome, it starts
"Sir,
I stra..." and ends "... Art, sir, is Satire: Veritas."
Other palindromes in ascending length (drum
roll please):
O,
no!
Do
God!
We few.
Go,
dog!
Old? Lo!
Top pot.
A
Redivider
Top spot.
Live evil.
Semi
limes
Stun
nuts.
Taft:
fat!
Go
do, dog.
Never
even.
Stop
spots.
Regal lager.
Dot
sees Tod.
Lepers
repel.
Ma
has a ham.
Dennis
sinned.
Sir,
I'm Iris.
I
met System I.
Lee
had a heel.
Lonely Tylenol.
Not
so,
Senile felines.
Sup
not on pus.
"Naomi," I Moan.
He
won snow, eh?
Laid on no dial.
Name
no one man.
Peel
Sam asleep.
Redraw
a warder.
Step
on no pets.
Do
geese see God?
Ed
is on no side.
Emil
saw a slime.
Dot
saw I was Tod.
Eros'
sis is sore.
Gateman's nametag.
God
saw I was dog!
Lem
saw I was Mel.
Naomi,
did I moan?
Never odd or even.
Rise
to vote, sir.
Sleep
on no peels.
Enid
and Edna dine.
He
stops spots, eh?
Revenge Meg? Never!
Sleep
not on peels.
Was
it a rat I saw?
Wendel's
sled: new?
A
No
lemons, no melon.
O,
stone, be not so.
God,
a saw was a dog!
Ma
is a nun, as I am.
No,
I met System Ion.
No,
it is opposition.
Now
I see bees I won.
Delia
saw I was ailed.
Dr. Lime,
He goddam mad dog, eh?
He
harasses Sarah, eh?
Mary
bred a
No
evil shah lives on.
Dennis
and Edna sinned.
Rats
drown in WordStar.
Star
comedy: Democrats!
Drat
Saddam mad dastard.
He
lived as a devil, eh?
He
won a
Red
rum, sir, is murder.
Sit
on a potato pan Otis!
A
slut nixes sex in
A
slut nixes sex in
Ma
is as selfless as I am.
Nurse,
I spy gupsies, run!
Rats
live on no evil star.
Slap
a ham on
Top step's pup's pet spot.
A dog!
A panic in a pagoda!
Go
deliver a dare, vile dog.
I
won, Karen, an era know I.
May
a moody baby doom a yam?
Murder for a jar of red rum.
No
"x" in "Mr. R. M. Nixon"?
Swen,
on gnus, sung no news.
Ten
animals I slam in a net.
Was
it Eliot's toilet I saw?
Was
it a car or a cat I saw?
Al lets
Della call Ed Stella.
No,
she stops spots, eh, son?
Eros?
Devil Natasha, ah, Satan
lived.
Draw,
O Caeser, erase a coward.
Emil's
Nip eels sleep in slime!
Did
Eve salt an atlas? Eve did.
I,
man, am regal; a German am I.
Golf? No sir, prefer prison flog.
No
pinot noir on Orion to nip on.
O,
memsahib Bart, rabbi has memo.
Trap
all afoot; I too fall apart.
Evil
I did dwell; lewd did I live.
Norma
is as selfless as I am, Ron.
"Naomi,
sex at noon taxes," I moan.
Yo, bad anaconda had no
Canada boy.
"Asi, Buenos
Dias!" said Son Eubisa.
Egad!
A base tone denotes a bad age.
Egad,
a base life defiles a bad age.
Kay,
a red nude, peeped under a yak.
Satan,
oscillate my metallic sonatas.
Sums
are not set as a test on Erasmus.
Marge
lets Norah see
Red
dude kill lion. No ill-liked udder.
Anna:
"Did Otto peep?" Otto: "Did Anna?"
May
Ron dine on eels? No, Enid, nor yam.
Address
of Emil Otto Lime: Fosse Rd., DA.
Aim a
Toyota tatami mat at a Toyota, Mia.
Did
I draw Della too tall, Edward? I did?
I
roamed under it as a tired, nude Maori.
He
won't, ah, wander, Edna. What now, eh?
To
Anne,
I vote more cars race
Stop,
Syrian! I start at rats in airy spots.
I
roamed under rats as a starred, nude Maori.
Paget
saw an Irish tooth, Sir, in a waste gap.
We
few erase cares, Al; laser aces are we few.
Level? No, I tan, I'm at no contamination level.
Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts.
Live
dirt up a side track carted is a putrid evil.
No
gnu have never after fret far, even Eva hung on.
Now,
Ned, I am a maiden nun; Ned, I am a maiden won.
We
repaid a no name Pacific ape man on a diaper, ew!
Here
we no got conical ill lilac in octogon ewer, eh?
Salamander a ton now. Raw war won not, a Red
I
prevent U-boats, tar, evil live rats, Tao but never pi.
Fool!
A dog lives sad a boxer, Rex. O bad ass evil god
aloof!
'Tenor
Octopus Night' netted a cadet tenth ginsu pot, coronet.
Won
total, I am a pro.
Yo, boy! Trap gnus, nude. 'Kangaroo Rag' naked unsung
party, O boy!
Did I
strap red nude, red rump, also slap murdered underparts? I did!
Doc,
note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on
cod.
So
regards Rat's Lib: regrets no more hero monster gerbil stars' drag Eros.
Degas,
are we not drawn onward, we freer few, drawn onward to new eras aged?
Garret,
I ogle. Enemy democrats party; trap star comedy men, eel goiter rag.
Named
undenominationally rebel, I rile Beryl?
La, no! I tan. I'm, O Ned, nude,
man!
Sagas
emit taxes, rat snot, or pastrami. I'm Arts, a proton star - sex at times a
gas.
Dr.
Ana, Cataracts. Uranium enema smarts if fist rams, Amen! Emu
in a rust car at a canard.
T.
Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad; I'd assign it a name:
gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet.
Some word (not letter) palindromes:
So patient a doctor to try to doctor a patient so.
You
can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you?
Girl,
bathing on
Amusing
is that company of fond people bores people fond of company that is amusing.
Line palindrome poems:
As I
was passing near the jail
I
met a man, but hurried by.
His
face was ghastly, grimly pale.
He
had a gun. I wondered why
He
had. A gun? I wondered... why,
His
face was *ghastly*! Grimly pale,
I
met a man, but hurried by,
As I was passing near the jail.
DOPPELGANGER (umlaut on the A)
Entering
the lonely house with my wife,
I
saw him for the first time
Peering
furtively from behind a bush--
Blackness
that moved,
A
shape amid the shadows,
A
momentary glimpse of gleaming eyes
Revealed in the ragged moon.
A
closer look (he seemed to turn) might have
Put
him to flight forever--
I
dared not
(For
reasons that I failed to understand),
Though
I knew I should act at once.
I
puzzled over it, hiding alone,
Watching the woman as she neared the gate.
He
came, and I saw him crouching
Night after night.
Night
after night
He
came, and I saw him crouching,
Watching the woman as she neared the gate.
I
puzzled over it, hiding alone--
Though
I knew I should act at once,
For
reasons that I failed to understand
I dared not
Put
him to flight forever.
A
closer look (he seemed to turn) might have
Revealed
in the ragged moon
A
momentary glimpse of gleaming eyes,
A
shape amid the shadows,
Blackness that moved.
Peering
furtively from behind a bush,
I
saw him, for the first time,
Entering the lonely house with my wife.
Some palindromic names:
Lon
Nol
(former premier of
U Nu
(former premier of Burma)
Revilo
P. Oliver
(professor at
the same name, which was deliberately contrived)
Wassamassaw
(a swamp north of
Yreka
Bakery
(a former business in
Yrella
Gallery
(a business which
later occupied the same premises)
References:
Palindromes and Anagrams
Howard W. Bergerson
ISBN 0-486-20664-5.
The
Oxford Guide to Word Games, chapter 11, titled "Palindromes"
Tony
Augarde
Lid Off a Daffodil
John
Pool
Holt,
Rinehart and Wilson
1982
The
Palindromicon
Jeff
Grant
From
A to Zotamorf: The Dictionary of Palindromes
Stephen Chism
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