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
Palindrome terms have been accepted as official entries in the [[Oxford English Dictionary]]. Some names are palindromes, such as the [[given name]]s Hannah, Ada, Anna, Bob, Nitin and Otto, or the [[surname]]s Harrah, Renner and Salas. In Finnish, the surname [[Nenonen]] is a palindrome. [[Lon Nol]] (1913–1985) was Prime Minister of Cambodia. [[Nisio Isin]] is a Japanese novelist and [[manga]] writer, whose pseudonym (西尾 維新, "Nishio Ishin") is a palindrome when romanized using the [[Kunrei-shiki]] or the [[Nihon-shiki]] systems, and is often written as NisiOisiN to emphasize this. Some people have changed their name in order to make of it a