We have books for language-lovers and recommendations for history buffs. • How did the word boondoggle come to denote a wasteful project? The answer involves the Boy Scouts, a baby, a craft project, and a city council meeting. • Instead of reversing...
A palindrome reads the same backward and forward letter by letter, as in taco cat, nurses run, and a nut for a jar of tuna. Word-unit palindromes work by words instead: the sequence of words reverses, even if the letters do not. Examples include You...
Another winning palindrome from the SymmyS: You swallow pills for anxious days and nights. And days, anxious for pills, swallow you. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Pills Palindrome” Here’s another palindrome...