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PaigeBeforeBeauty

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Why isn't "palindrome" spelled the same way backwards as it is forwards?

ironic eh?

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Also, I find it interesting that phonetic is not spelled phonetically. I like to pronounce it phonetically Pee-Ho-Net-Ick-All-Ee.

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That fact has always bugged me... Gah! The english language.... tsk tsk

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Interesting! I didn't know what this was called until now.

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i don't know but my friend Topher is obsessed with palindromes and had a palindrome party. sit on a potato pan otis. how can life be this much fun, I ask?

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hahahaha.... wow pietherapy! awesome live god, dog evil!

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MYNAMEISAPALINDROMEEMORDNILAPASIEMANYM A-n-n-A

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It's root is Greek: palin, "back," "again" and dramein, "to run" palindrome literally means "to run back again". Why do Santa and Satan use the same letters? Why do you drive on parkways and park on driveways?

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That's a kind of question like "Why is 'lisp' so hard to say with a lisp?" and "Why is 'hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia' (fear of long words) such a long word?" Because someone out there had fun making these words is my answer. Ha.

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I'm not going to lie....I used a dictionary.

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