Palindromes and palindromedaries around the world, Middle East view
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  • Aloha! Hola!
    - Anonymous, © 16:11 29 Dec 2019
  • Live dirt up a sidetrack carted is a putrid evil
    - Dmitri A. Borgmann, © 16:11 29 Dec 2019
  • Party trap
    - Anonymous, © 16:11 29 Dec 2019
  • Look ma, I won a Toyota. Now I am kool.
    - Anonymous, © 16:11 29 Dec 2019
  • One pal, a jalapeno.
    - Anonymous, © 16:11 29 Dec 2019
  • Drab Della, cosmic in ecstasy, sat scenic. I'm so-called bard.
    - Anonymous, © 16:11 29 Dec 2019
  • Liam delivers Bob's reviled mail.
    - Anonymous, © 16:11 29 Dec 2019
  • Drat such custard!
    - Anonymous, © 16:11 29 Dec 2019
  • A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal: Panama!
    - Anonymous, © 17:21 29 Dec 2019
  • Never a foot too far, even.
    - Leigh Mercer, © 17:21 29 Dec 2019
  • No word, no bond, row on.
    - Leigh Mercer, © 17:21 29 Dec 2019
  • Now Eve, we're here, we've won.
    - Howard W. Bergerson (aka Edwin Fitzpatrick), © 17:21 29 Dec 2019
  • Test tube butt set.
    - Anonymous, © 17:21 29 Dec 2019
  • Stressed? No tips? Spit on desserts.
    - Tom Comerford, © 17:21 29 Dec 2019
  • In word salad, alas, drown I.
    - Bobdog: http://www.dogeatdogma.com/bobdog, © 17:21 29 Dec 2019
  • Dog food lid= dildo of God.
    - Anonymous, © 17:21 29 Dec 2019
  • Gabe's on a nosebag.
    - Jon Agee, © 17:21 29 Dec 2019
  • Barge in! Relate mere war of 1991 for a were metal Ernie grab!
    - Anonymous, © 21:29 29 Dec 2019
  • Do good? I? No! Evil anon I deliver. I maim nine more hero men in Saginaw, sanitary sword a tuck, Carol, I... lo!... rack, cut a drowsy rat in Aswan. I gas nine more hero men in Miami. Reviled, I (Nona) live on. I do, O God!
    - Anonymous, © 21:29 29 Dec 2019
  • Evil did I dwell; lewd I did live.
    - Dmitri A. Borgmann, © 21:29 29 Dec 2019
  • Goldenrod adorned log.
    - Anonymous, © 21:29 29 Dec 2019
  • Meet animals; laminate 'em.
    - Author unknown, © 21:29 29 Dec 2019
  • Stack cats.
    - Anonymous, © 21:29 29 Dec 2019
  • Won't I panic in a pit now?
    - Jon Agee, © 21:29 29 Dec 2019
  • Yo, Bob! Mug o' gumbo, boy!
    - Anonymous, © 21:29 29 Dec 2019
  • Eva, can I see bees in a cave?
    - Anonymous, © 21:30 29 Dec 2019
  • Sir, I demand, I am a maid named Iris.
    - Leigh Mercer, © 21:38 29 Dec 2019
  • Was Ana Nym, my nana saw.
    - Ray N. Franklin (from Cia, So Manic in a Mosaic), © 11:14 21 May 2020
    Seed:  ananym
    Time:  1 minute
    
    I chose ananym as my preferred term for a word that makes a different word when reversed. On a whim I reversed ananym and saw "My nana," which caught my attention (even though my family never used the endearment 'nana' for our grandmothers). Then I decided to include an ananym in the palindrome. The finished composition came to me in a flash.
    
    Why did I choose ananym from the nineteen terms (anagram, ananym, antigram, drow, half-palindrome, heterodrome, inversion, palinode, recurrent palindrome, retronym, reversagram, reversal, reversal pair, reversible, reversible anagram, reversion, semordnilap, sotadic palindrome, and word reversal, according to The Dictionary of Wordplay by Dave Morice) already in use? It was not random.
    
    First, I eliminated the multi-word terms because I wanted a single word. Then I looked at the palindromic potential of each of the remaining terms. I also considered the nature of the term's usage, whether authoritative sources accepted the term, and the word's etymology. Only ananym satisfied all five criteria.
    
    Bonus reason:  "Ban ananym" is also "banana-nym".
  • Wes knits evil elf fart raffle. Live stinks! Ew!
    - Ray N. Franklin, © 14:36 11 Jun 2020
    Seed:  raffle
    Time:  1 hour
    
    I entered raffle in Word Explorer and added an obvious letter t to the elf-far split. By swapping t-raffle for elf-fart, I dropped the extra t to get the valid palindrome, "elf fart raffle."
    
    * raffle elf-far
    * t raffle elf fart
    * elf fart raffle
    
    Then I just looked for ways to expand that silly phrase. Both the verb and ananym lists helped.
    
    * Reviled elf fart raffle, deliver!
    * Detailed elf fart raffle deli at ed
    * Flower elf fart raffle re wolf
    * Iron elf fart raffle Nori
    * Peek at elf fart raffle, Tak. Eep!
    * Know elf fart raffle, Wonk?
    * Evil elf fart raffle. Live!
    * Wes knits evil elf fart raffle. Live stinks! Ew!
  • "One-ton knot, Eno."
    "One big knot, Tonk."
    "Gibe?"
    "No."
    "One-ton knot, Eno."
    - Ray N. Franklin, © 19:02 19 Jul 2020
    Seed:  wonton
    Time:  15 minutes
    
    I was testing some code and entered the classic palindrome, "Wonton, not now!" As so often happens, a couple of random perverse thoughts popped up.
    
    One was to add a k between wonton and not: Wonton knot, now! The other told me to replace the homophone won with one. That lead to another short palindrome.
    
    One-ton knot, Eno.
    
    Then I played around with the natural response a person might have to a one-ton knot: "That's one big knot." The last three words completed the excercise and I had a conversation between a couple of friends admiring an example of post-Gordian conspicuous consumptionism.
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