‘Palindrome’ has been part of the English language since 1636 and means (as you know) a word or phrase that reads the same letter-for-letter backwards and forwards. (The Adelaide suburb of Glenelg is a classic palindrome.) It comes from a Greek source word meaning ‘running back again’. But the problem is that ‘palindrome’ is not itself a palindrome.
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