The most celebrated English sentence palindrome; reads identical forward and backward letter-for-letter.
"Recreational linguists consider "A man, a plan, a canal: Panama!" the pinnacle of sentence palindromes."
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Reads identically forward and backward when spaces and punctuation marks are omitted.
Penned by British palindromist Leigh Mercer in 1948, honoring engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps and the monumental construction of the Panama Canal.
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