CURIOUS ARRANGEMENTS OF WORDS
In an old paper was the following paragraph: “One of the most curious arrangements of words is the sentence: ‘Sartor arepo tenet opera rotas.’ It is pretty bad Latin, but it may be freely translated: ‘I cease from my work; the sower will wear away his wheels.’ ” It spells backward and forward the same. The first letter of each word spells the first word. The second letter of each word spells the second word; and so on with the third, fourth and fifth words. The last letters read backward spell the first word; the next to the last, the second word and so on throughout. There are just as many letters in each word as there ar e words.
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Shannon News, 9 August 1927, Page 4
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123CURIOUS ARRANGEMENTS OF WORDS Shannon News, 9 August 1927, Page 4
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