There is a word for a word that looks the same in the mirror isn't there?
There is a word for a word that looks the same in the mirror isn't there?
Yes!quote:Originally posted by 3GGG
There is a word for a word that looks the same in the mirror isn't there?
A palindromequote:Originally posted by 3GGG
There is a word for a word that looks the same in the mirror isn't there?
Like Hannah or Drardquote:Originally posted by euan
A palindromequote:Originally posted by 3GGG
There is a word for a word that looks the same in the mirror isn't there?
Nopequote:Originally posted by euan
A palindrome
Actually, I'm wrong, a palindrome is a word that is spelt the same backwards and fowards.quote:Originally posted by euan
A palindromequote:Originally posted by 3GGG
There is a word for a word that looks the same in the mirror isn't there?
Palindrome is where the word reads the same from either end.
I remember from school a palindromic phrase (if that is the correct term)
"Able was I ere I saw Elba" - supposedly attributed to Napoleon!
I couldn't find a specific name for a mirrored word, just this info:
The other kind of palindrome is the mirrored palindrome. These are palindromes which are graphically reversible. Not all letters in mirrored palindromes necessarily have symmetry about a vertical axis (A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W, X) since some letters are (more or less) mirror images of others (e.g. L and J). Therefore a mirrored palindrome is not necessarily also a traditional palindrome. Punctuation and spaces cannot be ignored when creating mirrored palindromes. When reversed A TOYOTA becomes ATOYOT A which, strictly speaking, is not the same. WOT TOW, although fairly meaningless, is a valid mirrored palindrome. Of course, with this type of palindrome, it is important whether upper or lower case letters are used: bid is a mirrored palindrome, but BID is not.
There is an ambigram - is a word or a group of words which can be read in at least two different ways. The most usual are symmetric under a rotation of 180 degrees (i.e., they look the same upside down) or under a vertical axis reflection (i.e., they look the same in a mirror).
Wikipedia - Ambigram
You beat me to it, I was just reading all those palindromes that Wikipedia has!quote:Originally posted by MartinSullivan
There is an ambigram - is a word or a group of words which can be read in at least two different ways. The most usual are symmetric under a rotation of 180 degrees (i.e., they look the same upside down) or under a vertical axis reflection (i.e., they look the same in a mirror).
Wikipedia - Ambigram
Cheers
Never mind that - does no-one think it's scary the info Sleepy got on that car from it's reg plate - do you work for the met?
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