by Peggy Robin
How I wish this column, which comes out on Saturdays, had fallen on Wednesday of this week! Why? Because that date was a rare and wonderful thing: a supervocalic palindrome.
A what??? Supervocalic. You may think it's related to "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Well, it is....sort of. That Disney-devised adjective is a good example of a supervocalic -- that is, a word that contains all five vowels in any order. A perfect supervocalic "facetious" contains the five vowels in their proper alphabetical order, using each one just once. If you count "y" as a vowel, then "facetiously" is your perfect example.
Supervocalic is itself a supervocalic.
Wednesday's supervocalic is the date, April Twenty-fourth.
When you write it in numerals it's 4 2 4 2 4-- so it is also a palindrome, reading the same forwards and backwards.
I may have been a few days late to note the supervocality of Wednesday's date written in words, but I'm still on time to note the palindromic nature of today's date: 4 2 7 2 4.
We're in the middle of a 10-day run of palindromic dates that started on 4 2 0 2 4 and will end on 4 2 9 2 4. (it's spelled out in full at: https://fox8.com/news/did-you-know-theres-a-10-day-stretch-of-palindrome-dates-happening-this-month/ )
For a little more palindromic fun, I posted this a few minutes before....
Noon, 4 27 24
Yo, boy! Bob, Otto....
Mom, Dad, Sis, Anna, Ava, Lil, Viv, Hannah, Enid and Nadine
All these people prefer to use one of three modes of transportation: Kayak, Racecar, or Civic, and in them they can travel to meet up with their supervocalic friends:
Julia Roberts, Bela Lugosi, Sequoia, Charles Bukowski, Blanche DuBois, Jean-Louis, Mike Douglas, and Alice Munro.
Come back for more...in May 2025 (5 2 2 5 and the 10-day span from 5 2 0 2 5 through 5 2 9 2 5 !
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Still Life with Robin (NIB or RHT, I / We Fill Lits) is posted on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays.
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