Talk:Palindrome

Level is an “palindrome” it totally can’t spell backwards

Ask Google to see if level is a palindrome 125.160.115.3 (talk) 03:27, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

What's your point? It's obviously a palindrome, and we already mention it in the article. Meters (talk) 06:58, 12 September 2025 (UTC)

BC vs. BCE

Is there a reason for the recent edit changing BCE to BC? BCE is the current standard in historical writing (along with CE) since most people in the world are not Christian. It makes no sense to force them to speak of "the year of the Lord" or "Before Christ." (The man's name was Jesus; "Christ" is a religious title meaning "the anointed one."Msalt (talk) 03:28, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

Quite right, Msalt, that was an unexplained change and the standard had been BCE/CE for quite a long time previously; i have therefore reverted it. Courtesy ping for editor Dawizz, who made the change ~ Lindsay^Hello 16:56, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Anagram question

Thread retitled from Palindromes are sentences with letters that can be read the same forward and backward, while words with letters reading the same backwards is called Anagrams.

Anagrams are not palindromes

The following is a closed discussion. Please do not modify it.

Palindromes are sentences with letters that can be read the same forward and backward, while words with letters reading the same backwards is called Anagrams, which appears to have been given a new definition previously used by word-play. ~2026-24074-54 (talk) 13:11, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

You are mistaken. An anagram is not a word that reads the same forwards and backwards. That's a palindrome. An anagram is a word that contains the same letters as another word but in a different order. The meaning of the term anagram hasn't changed in the last few hundred years. For example, here's a quote from 1606: "... IVNO, whose great name is VNIO, in the anagram ...". — Chrisahn (talk) 13:48, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Palindrome is only for sentences that have letters reading forward and backward, not anagrams. ~2026-24074-54 (talk) 14:32, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

You're wrong. Good bye. — Chrisahn (talk) 14:41, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Anagrams are not the same as Palindromes, which refer to sentences that can be read forward and backward. ~2026-24074-54 (talk) 14:46, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

As Chrisahn pointed out, this is incorrect. Please drop this. Meters (talk) 19:30, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Palindromes are for sentences, while anagrams are for words. What part of that do you not understand? ~2026-24074-54 (talk) 20:35, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

The part where you claim, mistakenly, that palindromes are only for sentences. Have you actually read the article? May i suggest that you do, because you will discover that a palindrome can be a word or a sentence or a number.... An anagram is different from a palindrome; i could easily ask what you don't understand about that ~ Lindsay^Hello 20:42, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Oh, how disappointing; i hadn't taken a look at their other contributions, so didn't realise that this question wasn't being raised in good faith. Pity. Ah well ~ Lindsay^Hello 20:48, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

Trolling is not amusing or useful. Wikipedia entries are based on verifiable, evidence from reliable sources. What is your evidence for this previously unknown rule? Msalt (talk) 21:31, 19 April 2026 (UTC)