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 where language is played with, for example in slang dialects like "[[verlan]]". In French, there is the phrase "une Slave valse nue" ("a Slavic woman waltzes naked"), phonemically . [[John Oswald (composer)|John Oswald]] discussed his experience of phonetic palindromes while working on audio tape versions of the [[cut-up technique]] using recorded readings by [[William S. Burroughs]]. A list of phonetic palindromes discussed by [[word puzzle]] columnist O.V. Michaelson include "crew work"/"work crew", "dry yard", "easy", "Funny enough", "Let Bob tell", "new moon", "selfless", "Sorry, Ross", "Talk, Scott", "to boot", "top spot" (also an orthographic palindrome), "Y'all lie", "You're caught. Talk,