Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Warsaw was raw. No lemons, no melon.
Dennis and Edna sinned.
They are all palindromes. A palindrome is a word, phrase or number that reads exactly the same backwards as forwards. The name "palindrome" comes from the Greek palindromos meaning "running back again".
These sentences are also a little strange. Why?
Women understand men; few men understand women.
Bores are people that say that people are bores.
Eat to live; never live to eat.
All for one and one for all.You can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you?
They are all word-unit palindromes. Word-unit palindromes relate to whole words, which form the same sentence when read in reverse as forwards.
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