Firstly a silly pic of me on casual Friday in the contact centre
I mean come on, I should be in one of those bands where they just pretend to sing on stage…. headphone sets are cool ;)
So, the RA palindrome was supposedly Racecar, however, I never trusted that as being the longest one (besides in some dictionaries it’s hyphenated anyway) so.. here’s the text of a mail I sent round work (did get some funny replies ;)
Just for the record (never did trust that race-car or racecar palindrome!)
Malayalam.
Is a noun in the English language
Main Entry: Mal-a-ya-lam
Pronunciation: “ma-l&-‘y-l&m;, “m-
Function: noun
: the Dravidian language of Kerala, southwest India, closely related to
Tamil(source www.m-w.com)
And I quote from the quiz..
“What seven letter word, beginning with the letters ‘RA’ is the longest single-word palindrome in the english language?’Well, I mean, clearly the whole competition should be null and void seeing as Malayalam (that common every day word) is 9 letters long…
Just to nit-pick ;)
I’m sure there are longer single word palindromes out there.. but sure anyway.
I think I’m spending too much time on palindromes :) Hehehe, so work was grand this week, fun party last night – 1/2 of it was spent suspended from the beams over the deck trying to learn how to swap over ropes in mid air. Something I will be doing in 3 weeks time (with a 150m drop below me… more about that later!) This weekend will be tramping in Arthurs pass, sounds like a pretty – tough – route we’ll be doing, but all the more fun for that. No tracks.. which will be a first for over here. Following ridges etc. I think. Other than that, oh yes – well next week will be Paynes Ford, quite looking forward to that (sport climbing). And next week I move into the new house, so that’s going to be – different!!! hmmmm, hopefully in a good way.
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