Word problem

[blobrana]

What do these words have in common?
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Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Assess

[Spud Emperor]

leave me outta this!

[Spud Emperor]

two sets of doubled up letters

[Spud Emperor]

I'm also good at cards.

[blobrana]

two sets of doubled up letters

Good try,
but not the correct answer i have written down.

[Spud Emperor]

Good try,
but not the correct answer i have written down.

Better than a good try, it's correct. There must be two or more correct answers.

[blobrana]

Yes,
like all the words are all written in post one of this thread; or they all begin with capital letters.

But not the answer i have written down.

[Spud Emperor]

They all contain palindromes, think I got it!

[blobrana]

They all contain palindromes, think I got it!

Yes,
close enough.
The first letter when moved to the end of the word, spells the word backwards.

My real question is what is that called?

[Spud Emperor]

Good but there's no way my pee is going up my arse.

[Fraggle Rocker]

What do these words have in common?They were all in "Ask Marilyn" a couple of weeks ago. :)

[thecollage]

I have a boat.

[Fraggle Rocker]

The first letter when moved to the end of the word, spells the word backwards. My real question is what is that called?I'm not sure it has a name. How many words like that are there, and how long did it take somebody to notice them?

Palin-drome is just the Greek equivalent of Latin re-current: "running back." So maybe these are pseudopalindromes.

[Why?]

What do these words have in common?
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Banana
Dresser
Grammar
Potato
Revive
Uneven
Assess

While eating a french fried potato, I slipped on a banana peel on uneven pavement and before I could assess the situation and be revived to my senses, I blurted out an expletive in improper grammar after hitting my head on the dresser.

[DJ Erock]

palindromes are fun my favorite is: "go hang a salami, i'm a lasagna hog"

[blobrana]

I'm not sure it has a name.

i concur.

@DJ Erock
yeah,

132 + 231 = 363

[Letticia]

Isn't English one of relatively few languages where "true" (letter-by-letter) palindromes are even possible? In Russian it is all but impossible to write a sentence which spells same backward and forward, because endings of Russian verbs and adjectives are very asymmetrical, and their reverses simply do not exist in that language, even on word boundaries. When a Russian says "palindrome" he usually means word-to-word palindrome -- a sentence or a paragraph with same word order forward and backward. I don't think true palindromes are possible in French either, for the same reason.

[Diode-Man]

Inside the dresser there was a banana that was unevenly shaped like a potato. After eating the fruit I slipped into a coma, the doctor assesed that I had to be revived: I awoke with poor grammar.

[Michael]

an na
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am ma
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ev ve
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[blobrana]

non

[blobrana]

I have a boat.

? kayak ?

[Cannon]

Back to the mathimatical formation of the English language. Palendromes as a generality do no exist except in coincidence. For something to exist it must exist in all language to be part of language. Every language has objects, things, ideas, places, people and so on. But it is the things they don't have that become lost in translation.

[Fraggle Rocker]

But it is the things they don't have that become lost in translation.Indeed. We have no word to translate Japanese mono-no-aware, "appreciating the sadness of existence."

Or Votic aiguttoa, "to yawn repeatedly."

--picked at random from The Meaning of Tingo by Adam Jacot de Boinod