Crossword-Solution: PALINDROME 10 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Numerous examples of Palindrome or reciprocal word-twisting exist in Latin and French; but in English it is difficult to get a sentence which will be exactly the same when read either way.

From the instant of that first knock the ambitions of the pair roll back toward their doom as the law they have offended reasserts itself, and the witches' palindrome _In girum imus noctu, ecce!_ steadily spells itself backward, letter by letter, to the awful sentence, _Ecce ut consumimur igni!_ * * * * * This is to "idealise" in the right sense of the word.

The little town, situated whereaway it does not particularly matter, and whose name is a palindrome, is one of the oldest and most old-fashioned in Australia.

These ingenious verses are Leoline[2], and it is noted that "the sacrifice of Cain was not a living victim." I have seen it stated that the English language affords but _one_ specimen of the palindrome, while the Latin and Greek have many.

These must be very ancient indeed, if it be true that Adam introduced himself to Eve (in the English language, be it noted) with the palindromic words, "Madam, I'm Adam," to which his consort replied with the modest palindrome "Eve." Then we have Arithmetical Puzzles, an immense class, full of diversity.