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.
What is the term for a word which is another word spelled backwards? There's no generally accepted term. The simplest way of referring to such words (e.g. lap/pal, dog/god) is probably semi-palindrome or half-palindrome. Some other suggestions have been made, including heteropalindrome, reversgram (or reversible anagram), and semordnilap (i.e. palindromes written backwards). See other Vocabulary Questions.