Add to ORKGA 5-by-5 palindromic word square is one in which the first word is a reversal of the fifth word, the second is a reversal of the fourth, and the third is a palindrome. The most famous of these squares, the Latin one given at the right, can be translated Arepo the begetter (or sower) holds the wheels with care . It has been found on ancient walls and on amulets for safe childbirth; there is an extensive literature discussing its religious or mystical significance (see, for example, pp. 207-210 of Dmitri Borgmann\u27s Language on Vacation (Scribner\u27s, 1965))
When I read Dmitri Borgmann\u27s article on 100-letter tautonymic word squares in the November 1973 ...
Since my first report on the attempt to construct a modern tautonymic 10 x 10 word square, Darryl H....
A recent survey of over 1000 palindromes has shown that 71 per cent pivot on a single letter, as in ...
The oldest word square on record, the famed SATOR-AREPO-TENET-OPERA-ROTAS square known form at least...
A word square (n-square) consists of a n rows, each containing a different n-letter word, so that th...
A reversible word square is one in which every row can be read backwards, and every column upwards. ...
A reversible word square is one in which every row can be read backwards, and every column upwards ...
As explained in my article Nine-Square with Palindromic Diagonal (Word Ways May 2002), the SW-NE dia...
A few years ago, I produced a few thousand nine squares, but they have lain fallow since, as Chris C...
Most people are familiar with reversible overcoats; by turning them insight out, one gets two garmen...
It may seem that a 5-square could contain nothing but familiar words, but these 5-squares have eight...
In 1868 a painted fragment of wall plaster was taken from the dirt of a Roman villa under excavation...
With the recent discovery in the north of England of yet another example of the famous Latin palindr...
In the November 1979 Word Ways there was an interesting challenging article by Dmitri A. Borgmann ca...
Palindromes are words or phrases endowed with a quirkish trait. They read the same frontward or bac...
When I read Dmitri Borgmann\u27s article on 100-letter tautonymic word squares in the November 1973 ...
Since my first report on the attempt to construct a modern tautonymic 10 x 10 word square, Darryl H....
A recent survey of over 1000 palindromes has shown that 71 per cent pivot on a single letter, as in ...
The oldest word square on record, the famed SATOR-AREPO-TENET-OPERA-ROTAS square known form at least...
A word square (n-square) consists of a n rows, each containing a different n-letter word, so that th...
A reversible word square is one in which every row can be read backwards, and every column upwards. ...
A reversible word square is one in which every row can be read backwards, and every column upwards ...
As explained in my article Nine-Square with Palindromic Diagonal (Word Ways May 2002), the SW-NE dia...
A few years ago, I produced a few thousand nine squares, but they have lain fallow since, as Chris C...
Most people are familiar with reversible overcoats; by turning them insight out, one gets two garmen...
It may seem that a 5-square could contain nothing but familiar words, but these 5-squares have eight...
In 1868 a painted fragment of wall plaster was taken from the dirt of a Roman villa under excavation...
With the recent discovery in the north of England of yet another example of the famous Latin palindr...
In the November 1979 Word Ways there was an interesting challenging article by Dmitri A. Borgmann ca...
Palindromes are words or phrases endowed with a quirkish trait. They read the same frontward or bac...
When I read Dmitri Borgmann\u27s article on 100-letter tautonymic word squares in the November 1973 ...
Since my first report on the attempt to construct a modern tautonymic 10 x 10 word square, Darryl H....
A recent survey of over 1000 palindromes has shown that 71 per cent pivot on a single letter, as in ...