Cold Feet at the Altar Palindrome

Word-unit palindromes are palindromes where all the words read the same back and forth, like this SymmyS winner, titled “Cold Feet at the Altar”: Say I do? What do I do? What do I say?! This is part of a complete episode.

Transcript of “Cold Feet at the Altar Palindrome”

We were talking earlier about palindromes, and they’re also word unit palindromes.

What’s that? A word unit?

That’s when all the words read back and forth rather than just the letters.

I see.

For example, here’s one called Cold Feet at the Altar.

Say I do? What do I do? What do I say?

I see.

If you read that backward, word by word, it works the same way.

We talk about more than palindromes on this show.

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