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except the letter 'e' I can't stand that letter. It thinks it's so important to the english language but we don't even bother to pronounce it if it's at the end of words.

e.g. in "pronounce"

*sigh* who am I kidding? I'm not up for this. Just look at my punctuation and my grammars probably all out of whack without my even knowing it.

Kisa wrote: e.g. in "pronounce"

pronounciation?:D

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Why is "simplicity" such a complicated word?

to keep it from being overused. If it was called say... "bob" for example. people would be all like "his piano perfonce was full of bob" or "over at the department of motor vehicles they have a bunch of people who have a lot of bob." instead of "he sucks at piano." or "those DMV guys are idiots."

They sacrificed the bob of the word to benefit the bob of the language.

And now:

Why is "palindrome" no palindrome?

The inventor of the word had no sense of circularity. Here's an entire palindromic essay....

http://www.palindromelist.com/longest.htm

lesse... palindrome... more pin lad... redo in lamp... mired on alp... plain or med... no pried alm... almond pire... hmm...

A long time ago there was a small village called almondpire. For the sake of brevity let us get right to the point. There was a mad scientist he blew up the town (which was remarkable considering it was a long time ago, presumably before blowing things up was commonplace.) Afterward investigators found only the sign in tiny peices scattered about and slightly charred around the edges. this made putting them back together much more difficult than it should have been. and they gave up and left the sign on the ground in the order p-a-l-i-n-d-r-o-m-e.

A passing traveler came upon this village and saw what had happened. As it happened, it reminded him of his home ( for he was very poor and in fact lived previously in another destroyed village.) He asked about the village and learned of its fate. Delighted he stopped his travels there and lived there the rest of his days all the time telling of the village that could be arranged to resemble another village. And over the centuries its meaning gradually changed until now we understand it as a word whose letters can be arranged to form another word.

That is the story of how the word palindrome came to be and why its only known palindrome no longer exists.

That might be the story of anagram ...

*smacks head* No wait! that's why it's not an anagram?

Isn't that an anagram you're describing there?

I shouldn't get too complicated after 15 waking hours.

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real answer:

The creator of the word had a planned use for the word emordnilap... but he died before he could implement(sp) it.

there... nice and simple.