Happy New Year raeY weN yppaH!

Happy new year everybody, from all of us at Language Trainers USA!

Today (that is, the day after New Year’s Day) is a bit of a special date as it’s a palindromic number in our date format: 01/02/2010.

A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same forwards as it does backwards. Here are some of the most famous of these… know any more?

• Madam, I’m Adam
• A man, a plan, a canal… Panama!
• A dog! A panic in a pagoda!
• No devil lived on.
• Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?

Palindromes are not limited to just English, either – the Dutch word for thermometer is a fantastic example of one: koortsmeetsysteemstrook.

Pretty cool, huh?