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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2011

    SPARTA TRAPS  - The Trojan horse was a Sparta trap, since the Spartans sent it to Troy as a trap

    (Yeah, I know that's not a word, it's a two-word palindrome. I suppose I am bending the rules a bit. Maybe we need a new thread for Palindromes... :)

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2011
    Here are all the words we've found so far:

    Abba
    aga (title of respect)
    aha!
    Anna
    Anona (plant genus containing soursop)
    bib
    bob
    boob
    bub
    civic
    dad
    deed
    deified
    did
    dud
    eke
    Elele (town in Nigeria)
    Elle
    ere
    eve
    ewe
    eye
    gag
    gig
    Glenelg (Australian suburb)
    hallah (Jewish bread)
    Hannah
    huh
    kayak
    kook
    level
    Ma'am
    madam
    makam (Turkish classical music)
    minim
    mom
    mum
    naan
    nan
    noon
    nun
    Ono (as in Yoko)
    Otto
    pap
    peep
    pip
    poop
    pop
    pullup
    pup
    racecar
    radar
    redder
    redeeder
    redivider
    refer
    reifier
    repaper
    reviver
    rotator
    rotor
    s.o.s.
    sagas
    salas (large halls)
    sees
    Seles (as in Monica)
    sexes
    sis
    solos
    Soros (as in George)
    stats
    tenet
    terret
    Tevet (4th month of Jewish calendar)
    tippit (hide the coin game)
    tit
    TNT
    toot
    tot
    tut
    wow
    Xanax
    yay

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited July 2011
    TIBIT  (unit of measurement = 1024 gigabits)
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  • riley702
    riley702 Member Posts: 1,600
    edited July 2011

    Can't we do palindromic sentences, or expressions? In which case, you overlooked one way back in the thread:

    Madam, I'm Adam

    And here's an old one:

    A man, a plan, a canal - Panama!

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