Palindrome (; "again") and ' (; "way, direction"). Palindromes date back at least to 79 AD, as a palindrome was found as a graffito at Herculaneum, a city buried by ash in that year. This palindrome, called the Sator Square, consists of a sentence written in Latin: "Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas" ("The sower Arepo holds with effort the wheels"). It is remarkable for the fact that the first letters of each word form the first word, the second letters form the second word, and so forth. Hence, it can be arranged into a word square that reads in four different
I Palindrome I I Palindrome I "I Palindrome I" is a single by American alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants. The title track is one of three singles from "Apollo 18", released in 1992 by Elektra Records. The song references numerous actual palindromes. In a review of "Apollo 18", Karen Schlosberg said that the lyrics to "I Palindrome I" sound like "Edgar Allan Poe and David Lynch meeting the Monkees". They Might Be Giants performed the song on "Late Night with David Letterman" in 1992. Michael McKean recites the lyrics of the song in the documentary "". "Siftin" was used as a