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TIL the word “palindrome” isn’t “palindrome” spelled backwards, but “palindrome” spelled backwards is “emordnilap”, which is a real word that represents any word that when spelled backwards makes a new word - such as “time” and “emit” - so “emordnilap palindrome” is an emordnilap palindrome

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