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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: GrayBeard on February 26, 2013, 01:01:55 am

Title: Stumper....
Post by: GrayBeard on February 26, 2013, 01:01:55 am

What do the following words have in common?

1.                        Banana
2.                        Dresser
3.                        Grammar
4.                        Potato
5.                        Revive
6.                        Uneven
7.                        Assess

Answer tomorrow if no one posts the solution!

~~~GB~~~

Title: Re: Stumper....
Post by: Keefie on February 26, 2013, 07:01:29 am

All I can see is the all have 2 pairs of the same letter in each word

Title: Re: Stumper....
Post by: Mainewoods on February 26, 2013, 07:14:54 am

If you remove the first letter, each one is a palindrome!

Title: Re: Stumper....
Post by: rob roy on February 26, 2013, 07:44:38 am

Put the first letter of each word on the end and you have a palindrome.
Rob Roy.

Title: Re: Stumper....
Post by: cdrover(Clyde) on February 26, 2013, 09:42:01 am

I was never good with words, I'll wait for tomorrow  ;D

Title: Re: Stumper....
Post by: GrayBeard on February 26, 2013, 11:29:09 am

OK...RR got it...take the first letter, move it to the end and they spell the same word backwards!

"A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of symbols or elements, whose meaning may be interpreted the same way in either forward or reverse direction"

So they are not really palindromes except by making the change, example - RADAR.

Banana....ananaB

~~~GB~~~

Title: Re: Stumper....
Post by: king310 on February 26, 2013, 12:48:31 pm

So what you are saying GB is that if I look in a mirror that I would be a palindrome? I would look the same looking forward as backward. ;D ;D