http://www.lynngosnell.com/content INDEPENDENT WRITING AND EDITORIAL SERVICES Fri, 08 Apr 2011 21:22:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 2010 brings with it a New Year's bonus — a date that's the same backward and forwards, Jan. 2, 2010 or 01/02/2010. From M-W online: palindrome: a word, verse, or sentence (as “Able was I ere I saw Elba”) or a number (as 1881) that reads the same backward or forward Mostly, we ... http://www.lynngosnell.com/content/2010/01/happy-palindrome-day-01022010/ http://www.lynngosnell.com/content/2009/10/grammar-barry/ When Sarah Palin resigned abruptly from the governorship of Alaska, a television journalist said he was "gobsmacked" by this turn of events. My ear took note of the word (but not, unfortunately, of the name of the pundit). Then I heard it again, on another news show. New York Times columnist ... http://www.lynngosnell.com/content/2009/07/gobsmacked/