-- John

PS - Palindrome comes from the Greek words "palin" (again or back) and "dramein" (to run). So if you read that backwards, it translates loosely into "to run back." But ya gotta read it backwards, ya know.

Legend:
bold - pure palindromes (spaces included)
green - by William Cooper
yellow - Brick Barrientos (who has a home page )
orange - Alison Frane (she also has a palindrome page )
purple - Paul Norton the hobo
blue - John Cooper ( all together near the bottom)
red - Abdul Jalib
gray - still looking for author

Palindromic Phrases:
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
A car, a man, a maraca.
A dog, a pan, a pagoda.
A man, a plan, a canal. Panama.
A new order began, a more Roman age bred Rowena.
A rod, not a bar, a baton, Dora.
A six is a six is a six is a six is a...
A war at Tarawa!
Ah, a Mayan on a Yamaha.
Ah, Satan sees Natasha.
Anna: "Did Otto peep?" Otto: "Did Anna?"
Are we not drawn onwards, we Jews, drawn onward to new era?
Bob: "Did Anna peep?" Anna: "Did Bob?"
Cain: a maniac.
Deer frisk, sir, freed.
Delia and Edna ailed.
Delia sailed, Eva waved, Elias ailed.
Deliver no evil, avid diva. Avid, diva, live on reviled.
Dennis and Edna sinned.
Deny me not; atone, my Ned.
Desserts I desire not, so long as no lost one rise distressed.
Di, did I as I said I did?
Did Hannah say as Hannah did?
Did I do, O God, did I as I said I'd do? Good, I did!
Did I draw Della too tall, Edward? I did?
Did Ione take Kate? No, I did.
"Dine, Deb. Boss semen, if a tub, lap, dab, ton, sip, or drop, is not bad, pal, but a fine mess," sobbed Enid.
Did Mom poop? Mom did.
Do geese see God?
Do Good's deeds live on? No, Evil's deeds do, o God.
Doc, note, I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.
Dog as a devil deified, lived as a god.
Doom an evil deed; liven a mood.
Drab as a fool, as aloof as a bard.
Drab Reg, no longer bard.
Draw, O coward!
Egad! Loretta has Adams as mad as a hatter. Old age!
Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age.
Em had a boot, but not a gem: a mega-ton tub.  Too bad!  Ah me!
Emil asleep, Allen yodelled "Oy." Nella peels a lime.
Emil, asleep, Hannah peels a lime.
Enid and Edna dine.
Ere hypocrisies or poses are in, my hymn I erase. So prose I, sir, copy here.
Eva, can I pose as Aesop in a cave?
Eva, can I stab bats in a cave?
Eve damned Eden, mad Eve.
Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
Flee, dun as a nude elf.
Flog golf.
Go, do not tack cat to no dog.
"Go, droop aloof", sides reversed, is "fool a poor dog."
Golf, No, sir, prefer prison flog.
Harass Sensuousness, Sarah.
He goddam mad dog, eh?
He lived as a devil, eh?
Here so long? No loser, eh?
He stressed no garden index if I fixed nine dragon desserts, eh?
I maim nine men in Saginaw; wan, I gas nine men in Miami.
I roamed under it as a tired, nude Maori.
I saw desserts; I'd no lemons, alas no melon. Distressed was I.
I, man, am regal; a German am I.
In a regal age ran I.
In airy Sahara's level, Sarah, a Syrian, I.
Lepers repel.
Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.
Live not on evil deed, live not on evil.
Live not on evil.
Live on, Time; emit no evil.
Live to help pot topple hot evil!
Live was I ere I saw Evil.
Lived a devil.
Ma is a nun, as I am.
Ma is as selfless as I am.
Ma, Jerome raps pot top, "spare more jam!"
Madam, I'm Adam.
Madam, in Eden I'm -- Adam.
Madam, not one man is selfless; I name not one, Madam.
Marge let a moody baby doom a telegram.
Marge lets Norah see Sharon's telegram.
May a moody baby doom a yam?
Mirth, sir, a gay asset? No, don't essay a garish trim.
Moors dine, nip -- in Enid's room.
Mother at song no star, eh Tom?
Mr. Owl ate my metal worm.
Must sell at tallest sum.
Name now one man.
Naomi, did I moan?
Naomi, sex at noon taxes, I moan.
Naw, I'm a drowsy man. I gave not one vagina my sword. Am I wan!
Ned, go gag Ogden.
Ned, I am a maiden.
Neil! An alien!
Nella risks all: "I will ask Sir Allen."
Nemo, we revere women.
Never a foot too far, even.
Never odd or even.
Niagara, o roar again!
No evil Shahs live on.
No lemons, no melon.
No mists or frost, Simon.
No, it is open on one position.
No, it is opposed; Art sees Trade's opposition.
No, it is opposition.
No, it never propagates if I set a "gap" or prevention.
Norah's moods, Naomi moans, "doom Sharon."
Norma is as selfless as I am, Ron.
Now Eve, we're here, we've won.
Now Ned, I am a maiden nun; Ned, I am a maiden won.
Now, sir, a war is won!
Nurse's onset abates, noses run.
Nurse, I spy gypsies. Run!
Nurse, save rare vases, run!
O gnats, tango!
Oh who was it I saw, oh who?
On tub, Edward imitated a cadet; a timid raw debut, no?
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo.
Pa's a sap.
Pat and Edna tap.
Poor Dan is in a droop.
Pull a bat! I held a ladle, hit a ball up.
Pull up if I pull up.
Pusillanimity obsesses Boy Tim in "All Is Up."
Rats live on no evil star.
Red Root Put Up to Order   (a sign over a beet canning shop)
Red Roses run no risk, sir, on nurse's order.
Red rum, sir, is murder.
Regard a mere mad rager.
Revenge my baby, Meg? Never!
Revered now I live on. O did I do no evil, I wonder ever?
Reviled did I live, said I, "as evil I did deliver."
Revolt, love! raved Eva. "Revolt, lover!"
Revolt, lover.
Rise to vote, Sir.
Rise, sir lapdog! Revolt, lover! God, pal, rise, sir!
Roy, am I mayor?
" Sal is not in?" Ruth asks. "Ah, turn it on, Silas."
Sam!  Allen!  Interpret nine llamas!
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
See, slave, I demonstrate yet arts no medieval sees.
Selim's tired, no wonder, it's miles.
Senile felines.
Set a broom on no moor, Bates.
Sex at noon taxes.
Sh! Tom sees moths.
Sir, I demand, I am a maid named Iris.
Sir, I soon saw Bob was no Osiris.
Sir, I'm Iris.
Sis, Sargasso moss a grass is.
Sit on a potato pan, Otis.
Snug Satraps eye Sparta's guns.
Snug was I ere I saw guns.
Solo gigolos.
So may Apollo pay Amos.
So may Obadiah, even in Nineveh, aid a boy, Amos.
So many dynamos!
Some men interpret nine memos.
So remain a mere man. I am Eros.
Sore was I ere I saw Eros.
Stab bats.
Stella won no wallets.
Stop! Murder us not tonsured rumpots!
Stop, Syrian, I see bees in airy spots.
Stop, Syrian, I start at rats in airy spots.
Straw? No, too stupid a fad. I put soot on warts.
St. Simon sees no mists.
Sue, dice, do, to decide us.
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus.
Telegram, Margelet!
Ten animals I slam in a net.
Ten dip a rapid net.
Tenet C is a basis, a basic tenet.
Tennis set won, now Tess in net.
Tessa's in Italy, Latin is asset.
Th'guard peed a piss ergo ogres sip a deep draught.
Tide-net safe, soon, Allin. A manilla noose fastened it.
'Tis Ivan on a visit.
Too bad, I hid a boot.
Too far away, no mere clay or royal ceremony, a war afoot.
Too hot to hoot.
Top step -- Sara's pet spot.
Top step's pup's pet spot.
Trade ye no mere moneyed art.
Tuna nut.
" Wanna tan?" "Naw."
War-distended nets I draw.
Was it a rat I saw?
Was raw tap ale a reviver at one lap at Warsaw?
Was raw tap ale not a reviver at one lap at Warsaw?
We seven, Eve, sew.
We'll let Dad tell Lew.
Won't lovers revolt now?
Wow! O.D.! I can over-rev on acid. ow! ow!
Yawn a more Roman way.
(Yawn) Madonna fan? No damn way!
Yo! Banana boy!
Yo! Bozo boy!

My  Discoveries:
A Toyota!
Dogma is a lair of raw War; for I (alas!), I am God.
Dogma I delivered, is on no side. Reviled, I am God.
Egad! an adage!
Emit 2002, Time
Flat penis is inept, Alf.
God: a laminar animal; a dog.
Knife no one, fink!
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin (men) met Emnemnirdlaz Zubdnagnortsmr (alien).
Peer, canine. Yes, eye Nina. Creep.
Step on no pets.
Trade Susan as used art.
"Won Ton?" "Not now."
We net AD 2002 date. - New!

Really  Long Ones:
Do good? I? No! Evil anon I deliver: I maim nine more hero-men in Saginaw;
sanitary sword a-tuck, Carol, I--lo!--rack, cut a drowsy rat in Aswan; I
gas nine more hero-men in Miami; reviled I (Nona) live on. I do, O God!

Dennis, Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo,
Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida,
Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina,
Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl,
Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden,
Noel, and Ellen sinned.

Word Unit Palindromes:
King, are you glad you are king?
What? So he is hanged, is he? So what?
So patient a doctor to doctor a patient so.
Bomb disposal squad with failed technique failed with squad-disposal bomb.
Would I doubt you if away? Go away if you doubt I would.
AMERICA TO SHIP A MAN TO MARS -- from "Things of Tomorrow".  Intention, perhaps; but perhaps intention tomorrow of things from Mars to man a ship to America!

An Old Latin 2-way Palindrome:
 

S	A	T	O	R
A	R	E	P	O
T	E	N	E	T
O	P	E	R	A
R	O	T	A	S

"The sower, Arepo, holds the wheels with care."

Palindrome in C Code:
Other Languages:
En af dem, der red med fane (Danish, tr - "one of those riding with colors")