Palindrome / Palindromia
Palindromia, palabra o sentencia que dice lo mismo leída al revés que al derecho.
Palindrome, is a word or sentence that says the same read forwards or backwards.
In English there are lots of them. LEVEL for example. Does anyone know any in Spanish?
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Not my own work but I "googled" it and it came up with the following.
It sems to me that there are fewer palindromes in Spanish than English.
The longest common single-word palindrome in Spanish is reconocer, "to recognize," which has the same number of letters as sometemos, a conjugated verb meaning "we submit." Some Spanish-speaking word gamesters have proposed the longer word soplapalpos, but it was coined for this purpose and doesn't appear in any dictionary.
Perhaps the best-known sentence in Spanish that's a palindrome is "Dábale arroz a la zorra el abad," which uses an inverted (but still grammatically correct) word order to say, "The abbot gave rice to the vixen."
A Mercedes ése de crema
Ana lleva al oso la avellana.
Amad a la dama.
Amo la pacífica paloma.
Amó la paloma.
Así Ramona va, no Marisa.
Anita lava la tina.
A ti no, bonita.
Échele leche.
Es Adán, ya ve yo soy Eva y nada sé.
La moral, claro, mal
La ruta natural
La sal
Le avisará Sara si va él.
Luz azul
No bajará Sara jabón.
No deseo yo ese don.
Ojo rojo
Somos o no somos.
Son robos y sobornos.
Yo hago yoga hoy.
