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Monday, August 9, 2010

not quite 1 - Able was I ere I saw Elba

The title is perhaps the most famous English palindrome ( = an expression that reads the same forward and backward). Supposedly it was by Napoleon about his first exile. But Napoleon’s native languages were Italian and French and though he learned a little English the English people were his lifelong enemies? Is there any evidence that Napoleon actually composed it, uttered it or ever even heard it?
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  1. KWAugust 18, 2010 at 3:24 PM

    Who cares! A palindrome, whether he said it our not. [does he have to have said it to make it a palindrome?]

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  2. UnknownJune 28, 2011 at 3:16 PM

    The question was not whether it was a palindrome. It was rather the origin and history of that palindrome.

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