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echokilo | 18:33 Thu 17th Jul 2008 | Phrases & Sayings
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For example:

GRAMMAR ..... if you take the G from the front and put it at the end fo the word it still reads GRAMMAR if you read it backwards ....

Here is another DRESSER ..... move the D to the end and backwards it's still DRESSER.....

Is there a name for these?
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Palindrome
Are you sure paddywak? I thought a palindrome read the same front to back without moving any letters.
I've never come across a name for such words but I'll view them as "Echokilos" from now on. They are certainly not palindromes.
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Sorry but it's not a Palindrome - that's words like RADAR or CIVIC which read the same backwards as forwards with no moving of letters ...... but thanks for trying ......
Erm.... isn't that what i just said, echo? xx
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Sorry Bathseba - your reply was not showing when I typed my response - neither was the anser from novalis .... must have crossed over in cyber space xx
maybe thats why theyre called echo bathsheba! :)
Good one, red! xx
I suppose many palindromes could go that way (radars, pupa) but I don't know of an official name for them.
Someone gave me a list of these as a puzzle. I'd describe them as a single letter FOLLOWED by a palindrome.

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