Palindrome: "MOM" but not "DAD"

[Charles Doyle]

I have heard (maybe used) the phrase "mirror palindrome," but I don't know that it's a standard term.

--Charlie
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>Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 15:49:54 -0700
>From: JAMES H COPELAND <jamescopeland20 at MSN.COM>
>Subject: ?
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

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>What, pray, is the word for palindromes which, when held up to a mirror, spell the same, as MOM, TIT, TOOT, etc?

>Thank you,

>JHC

>PS;  I'm assuming, of course, that there is such a word...altho I think I've seen it somewhere.

>Thanks again

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