Mariska Hargitay. Sergeant Olivia Benson. Emmy Award winner Mariska Hargitay stars as Olivia Benson, a dedicated and emotionally driven detective and acting sergeant of the SVU squad on Wolf Films/Universal Television's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, now in its 17th season.
Theyâre both palindromes. A palindrome is a word, number, sentence, or verse that reads the same backward or forward. It derives from the Greek palin dromo, which means ârunning back again.â In most palindromes, spacing, punctuation, and capitalization are usually ignored.
Palindromes are a type of palingram called letter palingrams. A palingram is a sentence in which the letters, syllables, or words read the same backward as they do forward. The sentence, He was, was he? is a word palingram, because the words can be placed in reverse order and still read the same. The sentence, I did, did I? is not only a word palingram but a letter palingram (or palindrome) as well. A number of interesting palindromes are given below for your amusement.