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.
Semordnilap (palindromes spelled backward) is a name coined for words that spell a different word in reverse. The word was coined by Martin Gardner in his notes to C.C. Bombaugh's book Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature. An example of this is the word repaid, which is diaper spelled backward.