Seeds: sadistic and eirenic
My earlier palindrome, “Eirenic in Erie” inspired more exploration. Looking at words ending with nic, I found two pages worth in the Reversed word list. That resulted in a series of simple palindromes that just appeared to me as I entered each word into the composer. I spent no more than a few minutes on each one.
One such word I explored was arsenic, which reverses to cinesra. Out of habit, I dropped the leading C, which resulted in the intriguing phrase “arsenic in esra.” I could have consulted the Ananym list for a pair of words to add to each end. However, my first thought of a word to precede arsenic was the adjective some. That handily reverses to another name, Emos. The consequences are murderous.
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.
