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You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Barnett, and I have a movie recommendation that's going to

appeal to every word nerd. It's a brand new movie. It's called The Pallendromists, and it's a documentary

about the 2017 World Pallendrome Championships. Of course, as you know, a palindrome is a word or a phrase

or a sentence that reads the same

forward and backward, like Madam I'm Adam or no lemons, no melon. And the World Palindrome

Championship is organized and emceived by our friend Will Schwartz, who's editor of the New York

Times crossword puzzle. And this film features some of the best palindrome creators out there, like Mark Salt Fight,

who's the founder of the palindromist magazine, and John Agee, who's author of such palindromic books,

as Go Hang a Salami, I'm a Lazzania Hog, and so many dynamos.

And you get to follow the top competitors as they prepare for

this contest, which takes place at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Of course it does.

Of course it does. It's like nerd central. What's fun is that the championship itself is a real nail-biter because the top

contestants have limited time to come up with original palindromes that adhere to any of

several constraints, like on a particular current events topic or on a particular movie, or

maybe the first and last word of the palindrome have to be from a foreign language.

And what's really fun is that they do this in front of a whole audience.

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