"A man, a plan, a canal--Panama" (1955)

[Wilson Gray]

On Dec 11, 2004, at 8:05 AM, Fred Shapiro wrote:

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> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
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>> That palindrome was published in 1948 by Leigh Mercer, though it's
>> possible that Mercer was not the first to have found it.  From _Word
>> Ways:
>> The Journal of Recreational Linguistics_:
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> Does anyone know of any other very famous palindromes, tongue twisters,
> limericks, etc., for which there is a known or putative coinage?
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> Fred Shapiro

WRT limericks, is Edward Lear too obvious to need mentioning?

-Wilson Gray

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