When I was little – in second grade, I think – we read a book in school called Hannah is a Palindrome.
I don’t remember much about the book, but I do remember that it featured a little girl named Hannah who discovered that her name was, in fact, a palindrome. (A palindrome is a word that’s the same backwards and forwards. Just in case you didn’t have to read this book when you were little.) I remember that night having to come up with a list of other palindromes for homework.
Somehow, and for some reason, the concept of a “palindrome” stuck with me. I still look for palindromes, and it has become a strange compulsion to read words backwards. I like to actually read them backwards, deciphering what they would be if they were spelled in reverse.
I’m weird. I can’t help it. Blame it on Hannah.
This isn’t Hannah, though. This is me, on field day during my second grade year. Spiffy.
2 of your thoughts:
A couple of years back my ninth graders had to draw palindrome art for English class and the one girl used the word "ojo" from my class. At least I think it was "ojo." It very well might have been another palindrome. But she was very excited to tell me how she'd picked one of the Spanish words she'd just learned for the project :-D
Your word verification is "Spoing" which is not a palindrome but it's a fun word to say!!!
2nd grade? Seems like it was well...just yesterday. But I remember it all well.
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