Twenty Thousand Palindromic And S

On page 96 of I Love Me, Vol. I, Michael Donner suggests that the ordinary possibilities of the English palindrome are so close to being exhausted that, if new work is to be produced, it may become necessary to enlist the aid of obscure abbreviations in the collection by Ralph de Sola. Word Ways editor A. Ross Eckler perhaps also has in mind the \u27drome may be used up when he remarks on page 291 of the November issue that palindromes are not very important to Word Ways because they follow well-trodden paths

The Model A Palindrome Machine

This machine, the Model A palindrome (PD) generator, will permit you to make PDs as easily as spinning a pirouette on a kitchen stool and falling flat on your nose in the kitty litter, right in front of the Bishop. True, it will not allow you to create PDs without taking a little thought, but draw comfort in your great affliction form the fact that a completely automatic PD generator is currently in the works; keep watching the most cutting-edge of logojournals, Word Ways

Annihilating an Anacyclic

Like everything else (except space-time, sentience, and energy), letter-unit palindromes more than one word long are susceptible of being broken down into their component elements. This is accomplished in accordance with an invariable rule. Let us take as our analysandum A MAN A PLAN A CANAL PANAMA

An Automatic Palindrome Generator

In 1984 Dan Hoey, a US naval mathematician, wrote a computer which he used to create a 540-word expansion of Leigh Mercer\u27s Panama palindrome (PD). It began A man, a plan, a caret, a ban, a myriad, a sum, a lac... and ended ...a calmus, a diaryman, a bater, a canal Panama. (For the full PD, plus additional information, see http://www2.vo.lu/homepages/phahn/anagrams/panama/htm.

Eva: Palindromic Chaos In A Cave

The dangers attendant on speleology have perhaps not been sufficiently emphasized. In one particularly gruesome incident, a spelunker dived into a cave pool, passed unawares through a subterranean passage, and emerged from the pool into an enclosed grotto. Being unable to find his way back with the pool disguising his whereabouts from the search party, he starved to death in the darkness