Wednesday 15 July 2009

Palindromes and Pangrams

Do you know what is a 'Palindrome'

It is a word or sentence that reads the same forward as it does backward.

Words - civic,radar,refer, tenet, malayalam

Sentences - 'Was it a car or a cat I saw?', 'Never odd or even'

A 'Pangram', on the other hand, is a sentence that contains ALL the letters of the alphabet.Interesting pangrams are generally short ones; constructing a sentence that includes the fewest repeat letters possible is a challenging task. However, pangrams that are slightly longer yet enlightening, humorous, or eccentric are noteworthy in their own right.

The best know Pangram is "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" and another one is "Six javelins thrown by the quick savages whizzed forty paces beyond the mark"

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