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🗓️ 12 May 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What’s so special about the phrase Sit on a pan, Otis? It’s an example of a palindrome — a word or phrase that’s spelled the same backwards as it is forwards. This year’s contest known as the Oscars of the palindrome world inspires some clever, even poetic, surprises. Plus, tips for raising a child to be bilingual. And what was the search engine Google called BEFORE it was called Google? Also, spelunking slang, hissy fits, language vs. dialect, persons vs. people, French folds, phthalates, and “I don’t care if it harelips the governor!” Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org/contact. Be a part of the show: call 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; worldwide, call or text/SMS +1 (619) 800-4443. Email [email protected]. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:33.3	I'm Grant Barrett and I'm Martha Barnett.
0:35.7	A palindrome is a word or a sentence that can be read forwards and backwards, like
0:40.7	race car for example.
0:42.4	Spell the same way both ways do you have a favorite
0:44.7	palindrom no but there was used to be a Twitter account called palindrome
0:48.5	tweet they stopped tweeting in 2010 but it's still a load of palindromic
0:52.0	sentences they have there like
0:53.2	cigar toss it in a can it is so tragic and that whole sentence is a palindrome
0:58.1	that's fantastic wanton on salad a alas, no, not now. Those are good.
1:05.0	I think my all-time favorite used to be,
1:08.6	Sit on a pan, Otis.
1:11.9	But I have some new favorites now.
1:14.0	Oh, I see.
1:15.0	And these are from a contest run by one of the world's top palindrome writers, Mark Saltvite.
1:20.7	How do we get that job?
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