The Palindromicon contains over 2300 palindromic words and names drawn from a wide variety of sources.  Since publication of this work, hundreds of additional \u27dromes have been added to this collection, and the current total is now approaching the 3000 mark

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158 NEW PALINDROMES THE ~ JEFF GRANT Hastings, New Zealand The Balindromicon contains over 2300 palindromic words and names drawn from a wide variety of sources. Since publication of this work, hundreds of additional 'dromes have been added to this col­lection, and the current total is now approaching the 3000 mark. To give a taste of the new palindromes. here are 26 examples, one for each letter of the alphabet. My thanks to Dan Tilque for his substantial contribution, and to Ross Eckler for locating the PhoneDisc names. ANASASANA not longing after anything, in the sacred Pali language of Indian Buddhists BAWWAB a doorkeeper, in Arabic CON NOC a populated place in southern Vietnam (Official Standard Names Gazetteer) DUANE RENAUD an individual residing in New Sharon. Iowa (Phone­Disc) EGESZSEGE a form of the Hungarian egeszseg (health) in the phrase 'hogy szolgal az egeszsege' (how are you?) FOF a love-name noted in Leslie Alan Dunkling' s First Names First (note the word-palindrome title!) GALLAG a little bird, in Gaelic HUWUH-HUWUH left behind, alone or orphaned, in Old Javan lDEDI in Akkadian theology, angels who dwell in Heaven JAHAJ a ship, in Bengali KUD]DUK a swan, in Eskimo LISA BASIL the name of three people recorded on PhoneDisc MAXAXAM an American firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan that makes transmission gear NEZAPAZEN unnoticed, in Serbo-Croatian 0]1]0 the name of a road in Nairobi, Kenya PENEP a grave or tomb. in the language of the Sengoi people of the Malay peninsula QULLUQ bondage or slavery, in Uyghur (a Turkish language spoken mainly in western China and Mongolia) RODADOR a Spanish-American term for a mosquito when it is full of blood SI LELlS a grove, in Lithuanian TEKET 16th-century Scots form of •ticket' UYLYU clothing, in Korean VIIV a moment or instant, in Estonian WOLF FLOW the title of a horror novel by K.W.]eter (l992) XARRAX made serum, in Maltese YEEY a wild dog. in Somali ZAYAZ a surname in the 1992 Denver telephone directory PETER NE Chesterfie When asked Ma liable re ing stod and over problem ( of her n; tion. liRe was on dumb bin Wishing various t fowl, it that Fait play" tho as illustr Only tl more bod at a shoo Meo and tremely \I which shE ing hersE Meo had "ache". I attempted his mothe was takir the hen fence. Needin in a seal and, as Recognizin ered it in "Hi, II s( Ross, mea hen, mud the borin, To the a~ estra, Fai 

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