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a brand of powdered milk sold by Nestlé, early ads featuring the slogan "Spell it backwards" product name [22] Kroz: Zork: homage to older computer game product name Livic "civil [engineering]" trade newspaper, "a reflection of Civil Engineering" company name [23] Llamedos "sod 'em all" in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels (compare Llareggub ...
Originally, the game was a collaboration between two Roblox users who go by the usernames "Bethink" and "NewFissy". [13] [14] Adopt Me! added the feature of adoptable pets in summer of 2019, which caused the game to rapidly increase in popularity. [12] Adopt Me! had been played slightly over three billion times by December 2019. [15]
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". Following is a list of palindromic phrases of two or more words in the English language , found in multiple independent collections of palindromic phrases.
Back slang is not restricted to words spoken phonemically backwards. English frequently makes use of diphthongs, which is an issue for back slang since diphthongs cannot be reversed. The resulting fix slightly alters the traditional back slang. An example is trousers and its diphthong, ou, which is replaced with wo in the back slang version ...
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Backwards, a novel based on the episode; Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia, 1984 American TV program "Backwards" (Rascal Flatts song), a 2006 country music song on Me and My Gang "Backwards", a song by Apartment 26 from the Mission: Impossible 2 (soundtrack) "Backward", a song by Quicksand from the album Manic Compression
Kate Bush used phonetic reversal in her songs "Watching You Without Me" (1985) and "Leave it Open" (1982). The English rock band Radiohead used the effect on the song "Like Spinning Plates", released on their 2001 album Amnesiac. Singer Thom Yorke sang the lyrics backwards; this recording was in turn reversed to create "backwards-sounding ...
A palindromic place is a city or town whose name can be read the same forwards or backwards. An example of this would be Navan in Ireland. Some of the entries on this list are only palindromic if the next administrative division they are a part of is also included in the name, such as Adaven, Nevada.