Playing with words
What do these words have in common?
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
Are you peeking or have you already given up? Give it another try…
Look at each word carefully. You’ll surprise yourself when you discover the answer.
Answer: No, it is not that they all have at least 2 double letters….
Give up??? Try again… I know you can get it. If not…………Look below for answer.
Answer: In all of the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same word. Did you figure it out? No?
July 27th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Nice.
There should be a name for words like that. Alindromeps?
July 27th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Grrrrr!!
July 28th, 2009 at 8:55 am
In other words, they’re all a single letter followed by a palindrome. Thus the name for such words should be apalindrome. 😉