What is a palindrome?

A palindrome is a word or sentence that is the same spelled forward or backward. For example, "Madam, I'm Adam". If you omit the punctuation, you can see that the letters spell the same thing forward and backward. There are lots of words that are palindromes including: dad, deified, kayak.

Cute palindromes

A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal, Panama!

Entire palindrome words

Pray tell, William dear, is that child your target? You, as father, cry. But despair will not do. Do not, Will, despair! But cry, "Father!" as you target your child. That is, dear William Tell, pray!