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Pu, can I... pattern

Pu, can I... pattern

Pu, can I... pattern

Pu, can I... pattern

Pu, can I... pattern

I was browsing the palindromes at mockok.com and found the comments on a palindrome pattern that Timi Imit calls “multiple middles.” One of the more famous patterns is “Eva, can I ... in a cave?” Replace the three dots with any palindromic phrase that fits the grammar of the question. For example, “Eva, can I dump mud in a cave?”

My original palindrome, “Pu, can I snort celeb electrons in a cup?” has a similar pattern. So I decided to work on a few examples of this pattern. Some aim for a longer middle. Others simply use ananym pairs, the two different words that are the reverse of each other. I used the Franklin’s Palindromedary Ananym list to find some pairs that worked. In two cases I added the word “a” in the middle for better grammar. Many more possibilities remain, including creating original multi-middle patterns.

Time:  15 minutes
Seed:  electrons

Browsing the Main list, I saw the entry for electrons. The reverse split stood out:  snort-cele. At the very least, I wanted to know how many words ended with snort so I entered electrons into the Word Explorer field in Palindrome Composer. Then I selected the snort-cele split. 

So how many words end in snort? Just one, snort, but that was enough. I wrote "electrons snort cele" in the Current Composition field. Somehow that didn't sound useful, so I reversed the phrase to "snort cele electrons" and saw a possibility. The first word that begins with cele is celeb. I added the b to the end of cele and got "snort celeb electrons." That's a truly surreal phrase. It also solved the doubled-letter in the middle problem. Now the palindrome isn't quite so obviously symmetrical. But I didn't want to stop there.

Playing around, I expanded the phrase to "I snort celeb electrons i." For no particular reason I expanded the right side to the word inactive. Then the left side became evitcani and I added some spaces to make "evit can I snort celeb electrons inactive?"

That sounded unsatisfying, and, the only word ending in evit is the name Levit. Dropping evit, I looked at the remainder and came up with "can I snort celeb electrons in a c," which has a nice grammatical flow. Randomly trying cup for the last word, I decided it was finished. "Pu, can I snort celeb electrons in a cup?"

Pu is a name and also the atomic symbol for Plutonium, a rich source of electrons, both ordinary and celebrity.

Pu, can I... pattern