Seed word: sadistic.
I found multiple palindromes from this seed word, but the search took quite some time and spanned several splits of the reversed word, citsidas.
Split: c-its-idas
I first wrote this with the split on the left and sadistic on the right.
C it’s Ida’s sadistic
I dropped the possessive S from Ida’s to improve the palindrome.
C it’s Ida, sadistic
To grow the palindrome, I needed words that ended with C for the left side. I started reviewing the Reversed word list of words that begin with C. That group spans thirteen pages in the Palindromedary.
I used the Reversed list because that groups words by their endings. Fewer words end with C than begin with C. A sample from the Reversed list shows how this helps me.
Cinerie eirenic
The word on the left is the reverse of eirenic, so it begins with C. The word eirenic would go on the left of the palindrome, to replace the lonely C. The reversed word, cinerie, minus the C goes on the right after sadistic. As I was scanning the list, I was looking at the reversed word, ignoring the C, and checking if what remained was a string of words I could use. For the example above, “inerie” becomes the simple phrase “in Erie.” I found a number of words that fit this pattern. After exhausting the Reversed list, I had the short list of palindromes below.
Eirenic, it’s Ida, sadistic in Erie.
Runic, it’s Ida, sadistic in Ur.
Boric, it’s Ida, sadistic I rob.
Music, it’s Ida, sadistic I sum.
Problematic, it’s Ida, sadistic I tame L. Borp.
Kinematic, it’s Ida, sadistic I tame Nik.
Hepatic, it’s Ida, sadistic I tap, eh?
Antistatic, it’s Ida, sadistic, I tat Sitna.
Metic, it’s Ida, sadistic item.
Marc, it’s Ida, sadistic ram.
I also toyed with a variant and found one that isn’t terrible.
Rueta! Mac! It’s Ida, sadistic amateur.
Of all these, I like only two. The first one is fun because it uses both eirenic and Erie in a sentence, but eirenic and sadistic have conflicting meanings. A sadistic amateur also has some appeal, but I figured I could do better if I changed splits.
Split: cit-sid-as
The middle fragment is clearly a name, Sid. With the right fragment, it sounded like a phrase used on movie posters and advertisements: actor so-and-so as some character name. I thought it would be amusing to put sadistic on the left, which becomes an attribute of the actor, not the character in the film. I needed to expand this palindrome in the middle. That would require one or more words that ended with cit, where the rest was symmetrical. The palindromedary lists only eight words that end with cit. In one of them, everything before cit was symmetrical!
Sadistic illicit Sid as
Perfect! I have a very unflattering description of an actor named Sid, starring as some character. The easiest way to expand this particular pattern is to find an ananym pair. Each pair must include another adjective to use before sadistic, and a word that is or could be a name for the right side. So I went searching through the Ananyms word list. I found a surprising number of matches.
Rimy sadistic illicit Sid as Ymir
Asset sadistic illicit Sid as Tessa
Sore sadistic illicit Sid as Eros
Star sadistic illicit Sid as Rats
Stressed sadistic illicit Sid as Des Serts
Rama's sadistic illicit Sid as Samar
Rat sadistic illicit Sid as Tar
Raw sadistic illicit Sid as War
Regal sadistic illicit Sid as Lager
Repaid sadistic illicit Sid as Diaper
Deliver sadistic illicit Sid as Revi Led
Naive sadistic illicit Sid as Evian
Made sadistic illicit Sid as Edam
Anal sadistic illicit Sid as Lana
Lone sadistic illicit Sid as Enol
Able sadistic illicit Sid as Elba
Sued sadistic illicit Sid as Deus
Trodden sadistic illicit Sid as Ned Dort
Rewarded sadistic illicit Sid as D. E. Drawer
The first palindrome I composed turned out to the the best: Rimy sadistic illicit Sid as Ymir. I loved this one and imagined a crazy adventure movie centered around Ymir, a Norse god. To expand this theme, I looked up Norse mythology and listed some names I thought might have potential. I found two more palindromes using the same pattern, actor as so-and-so. Here’s the final marketing press release for this palindromic Norse adventure film. Can you find all the palindromes?
Shocking new film! Icy Death! Valiant humans battle alongside Norse gods against frozen evil. Will Asgard prevail? Can humanity survive? Cast of sevens.
Starring:
Rimy sadistic illicit Sid as Ymir
Red Labs’ Adder Edd as Balder
Doh! Sabrina Nirb as Hod
Scintillating dialogue:
“Sad Ymir, Ema namer. I Mydas.”
“Red Damion ale, Delano?”
“I’m Adder.”
“Hew-ha, Ymir. I’m Yahweh.”
Critiques rave:
“Red daffodil slid off Adder.”
About Author
I’ve had a lifelong interest in English and writing, which I maintained throughout my engineering career. My computer language skills and open-source word lists made the Palindromedary possible, along with a sense of how to apply technology to the task of composing a palindrome. Drawing on my web development experience since 2002, a website seemed the natural choice for first publication.
