This currently works for words checking if they are palindromes, but I need to figure out what to change to compare each word.
#SAME FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS HOW TO#
My problem: Not sure how to compare words specifically. Serutan’s tagline asked customers to “read backwards,” emphasizing that their product was the natural way to “ you regular and you regular.”Ī version of this story ran in 2014 it has been updated for 2021.I am trying to check if a sentence is the same forwards and backwards or a "sentence palindrome." The sentence "You can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you?" should return (True) as a palindrome. In the old days, companies had to be discreet and a little coy in ads for constipation remedies. In fact, it was not a Welsh name at all, but “ bugger all” backwards. The Dylan Thomas play Under Milk Wood was set in a Welsh village with a Welsh-looking name, Llareggub. Retsof is now known for a 1994 salt mine collapse. The little hamlet of Retsof, New York, was named for William Foster, owner of a salt mine company there. There’s also a big Annapolis summer music festival called Silopanna. Sometimes, when you’re naming streets, you just run out of ideas. In Annapolis, Maryland, there’s a little street called Silopanna Road. British slang for a young man who is up to no good. It features properly backwards-named characters like Senoj Nosnibor (Robinson Jones). The title of Samuel Butler’s 19th-century novel lampooning the society of the time was meant to be “nowhere” spelled backwards, but the h was moved out of place. Erewhonīackwards spelling in the name of satire has a long history. (Hint: Nacirema is “American” backwards, and that’s not the only semordnilap you’ll find here.) 4. a cherry tree in which the Spirit of Truth resided.” The Nacirema have become well known for what they tell us about the study of “exotic” cultures. NaciremaĪ 1956 anthropology paper by Horace Mitchell Miner examined the “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”, an exotic tribe that lives between “the Canadian Cree, the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico, and the Carib and Arawak of the Antilles.” Their nation was founded by a hero named Notgnihsaw, who did two incredible things: He once threw a piece of wampum over the Pa-To-Mac river, and also “ down. Example: racecar radar dumb mud was it a. Her next project will have to be an anagram (Pharo?). I love words that are spelled the same forwards and backwards. Oprah has a magazine titled by her first initial ( O), a network named with both her initials (OWN – The Oprah Winfrey Network) and a production company that spells her name backwards (Harpo). The animators modeled the character after Walt Disney himself. The name of the sorcerer in Fantasia is “Disney” spelled backwards. Here are nine words, besides semordnilap, expressly built to be semordnilaps. While there are some semordnilaps that arose by chance (desserts-stressed, diaper-repaid), there are many, like “semordnilap,” that were created on purpose, usually to not-so-covertly hint at the words they happen to be reversing.
While a palindrome reads the same way backwards or forwards (otto, kayak), a semordnilap (itself a semordnilap of “palindromes”) makes a completely different word when spelled backwards. Semordnilap is a word playfully coined by word-game lovers sometime in the mid-20th century.
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