Editing Palindrome (section)

== Longest palindromes ==
The longest single-word palindrome in the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' is the 12-letter [[Onomatopoeia|onomatopoeic]] word ''tattarrattat'', coined by [[James Joyce]] in ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' (1922) for a knock on the door.<ref>{{cite tweet | user=OED | number=644542911040880641 | title=The longest palindrome defined in the OED is 'tattarrattat', meaning 'a knock at the door'. It was used by James Joyce in 'Ulysses'. (2/2) | date=17 September 2015}}</ref><ref name="Joyce1982">{{cite book
  | author    = James Joyce
  | title     = Ulysses
  | url       = https://books.google.com/books?id=VZdOUXIOBhwC&pg=PT434
  | year      = 1982
  | publisher = Editions Artisan Devereaux
  | isbn      = 978-1-936694-38-9
  | pages     = 434–
  | quote     = ...I was just beginning to yawn with nerves thinking he was trying to make a fool of me when I knew his tattarrattat at the door he must ...
}}</ref><ref name="Booty2002">{{cite book
  | author    = O.A. Booty
  | title     = Funny Side of English
  | url       = https://books.google.com/books?id=PVcHzENuAnMC&pg=PT203
  | date      = 1 January 2002
| publisher = Pustak Mahal
  | isbn      = 978-81-223-0799-3
  | pages     = 203–
  | quote     = The longest palindromic word in English has 12 letters: tattarrattat. This word, appearing in the Oxford English Dictionary, was invented by James Joyce and used in his book Ulysses (1922), and is an imitation of the sound of someone ...
}}</ref> The ''Guinness Book of Records'' gives the title to the 11-letter ''detartrated'', the [[preterite]] and past participle of ''detartrate'', a chemical term meaning to remove [[tartrate]]s. The 9-letter word [[Rotary tiller|Rotavator]], a trademarked name for an agricultural machine, is listed in dictionaries as being the longest single-word palindrome. The 9-letter term ''redivider'' is used by some writers, but appears to be an invented or derived term; only ''redivide'' and ''redivision'' appear in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; the 9-letter word ''[[Malayalam]]'', a language of southern India, is also of equal length.

According to [[Guinness World Records]], the [[Finnish language|Finnish]] 19-letter word ''saippuakivikauppias'' (a [[soapstone]] vendor), is the world's longest palindromic word in everyday use.<ref name=Guinness>{{cite web | title= Longest palindromic word | url= http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-palindromic-word | publisher= [[Guinness World Records]] | access-date= 12 January 2017 | archive-date= 11 December 2016 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161211160431/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-palindromic-word | url-status= live }}</ref>

English palindrome sentences of notable length include mathematician [[Peter Hilton]]'s "Doc, note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod",<ref>{{cite news |date=10 November 2010 |title=Professor Peter Hilton |newspaper=[[Daily Telegraph]] |location=London |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/8124447/Professor-Peter-Hilton.html |access-date=30 April 2011 |archive-date=10 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310194435/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/8124447/Professor-Peter-Hilton.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and Scottish poet [[Alastair Reid (poet)|Alastair Reid]]'s "T. Eliot, top bard, notes putrid tang emanating, is sad; I'd assign it a name: gnat dirt upset on drab pot toilet."<ref name="NewYorker">By Brendan Gill, published in ''Here At The New Yorker,'' (1997, {{ISBN|0-306-80810-2}}).</ref>

In English, two palindromic novels have been published: ''Satire: Veritas'' by David Stephens (1980, 58,795 letters), and ''Dr Awkward & Olson in Oslo'' by Lawrence Levine (1986, 31,954 words).<ref>{{cite book
  | author    = Eckler, Ross
  | title     = Making the Alphabet Dance
  | publisher = St. Martin's
  | location  = NY
  | year      = 1996
  | page      = 36
  | isbn      = 978-0-333-90334-6
}}</ref> Another palindromic English work is a 224-word long poem, "Dammit I'm Mad", written by [[Demetri Martin]].<ref>{{cite web
  | title       = Demetri Martin's Palindrome
  | url         = http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/panorama/Literature/Martin/MartinPalindrome.html
  | work        = Yale University
  | publisher   = Mathematics Department
  | access-date  = 17 February 2014
| url-status     = dead
  | archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20100629014254/http://classes.yale.edu/fractals/Panorama/Literature/Martin/MartinPalindrome.html
  | archive-date = 29 June 2010
}}</ref> [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s song "[[Bob ("Weird Al" Yankovic song)|Bob]]" is composed entirely of palindromes.<ref name="Popdust">{{cite web |last1=Twardzik |first1=Tom |title=Celebrate Bob Dylan's Nobel with Weird Al |url=https://www.popdust.com/weird-al-bob-dylan-2063713015.html |website=Popdust |access-date=15 June 2021 |language=en |date=2016-10-25 |archive-date=13 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220813042032/https://www.popdust.com/weird-al-bob-dylan-2063713015.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>