英语词汇palindrome的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

palindrome. So scurrilous in his satires was Sotades, a Greek poet of the third century b.c., that Ptolemy II had him sewn up in a sack and thrown into the sea. But his coarse, vile verses must have been clever, for Sotades is reputed to have invented palindromes, which are sometimes called Sotadics in his honor. Palindromes take their more common name from the Greek palin dromo, “running back again,” and they are simply ana- grams that read the same backward as forward. Making palin- dromes has been a favorite word game at least since early Grecian times, but English, with the largest and most varied vocabulary of all languages, offers the most fertile ground for the creator of palindromes. It’s said that Sir Thomas Urqu- hart even invented a universal language based entirely on palindromes. Probably the longest common English palin- dromic word is redivider. The longest halfway sensible palin- drome is one coined by an anonymous 19th-century English poet: Dog as a devil deified/Deified lived as a god. Another famous palindrome is the one English author Leigh Mercer wrote for Ferdinand de Lesseps, the man who began the Panama Canal: A man, a plan, a canal: Panama! See namby- pamby; tattarrattat.

词汇	palindrome
词源	palindrome. So scurrilous in his satires was Sotades, a Greek poet of the third century b.c., that Ptolemy II had him sewn up in a sack and thrown into the sea. But his coarse, vile verses must have been clever, for Sotades is reputed to have invented palindromes, which are sometimes called Sotadics in his honor. Palindromes take their more common name from the Greek palin dromo, “running back again,” and they are simply ana- grams that read the same backward as forward. Making palin- dromes has been a favorite word game at least since early Grecian times, but English, with the largest and most varied vocabulary of all languages, offers the most fertile ground for the creator of palindromes. It’s said that Sir Thomas Urqu- hart even invented a universal language based entirely on palindromes. Probably the longest common English palin- dromic word is redivider. The longest halfway sensible palin- drome is one coined by an anonymous 19th-century English poet: Dog as a devil deified/Deified lived as a god. Another famous palindrome is the one English author Leigh Mercer wrote for Ferdinand de Lesseps, the man who began the Panama Canal: A man, a plan, a canal: Panama! See namby- pamby; tattarrattat.
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