Examples
The Hungarian A bátya gatyába ("The brother in underpants") is a phonetic palindrome. The phrase is also a true palindrome because 'ty' is originally one letter, although there are two characters. Instead of special or accented characters as in other languages, such as ç, ň, Hungarian uses digraphs. The Spanish phrase "echele leche" (throw/pour/give it milk) is a phonetic palindrome also because 'ch' is originally one letter, too, as it occurs in the previous Hungarian example.
A rare known palindrome in which a recorded phrase of speech sounds the same when it is played backwards was discovered by the composer John Oswald in 1974 while he was working on audio tape versions of the cut-up technique using recorded readings by William S. Burroughs. Oswald discovered that in repeated instances of Burroughs speaking the phrase "I got", that the recordings sound nearly identical whether played backward or forward.
In "Words at Play: Quips, Quirks & Oddities", a list of phonetic palindromes the author discovered include "crew work"/"work crew", "dry yard", "easy", "Funny enough", "Let Bob tell", "new moon", "selfless", "Sorry, Ross", "Talk, Scott", "to boot", "top spot" (also a regular palindrome), "Y'all lie", "You're caught. Talk, Roy", and "You're damn mad, Roy".
The Beatles song "Hello, Goodbye" has a phonetic palindrome. The words "say yes" sound the same when played in reverse.
Karsten Johansson's instrumental Wei-Touke contains a lengthy phonetic palindrome before the solo. In both directions, the following poem can be heard: "When I wonder why / What's never been's never been so / We would lie when we say 'Yes, you know we all love you' / What's never been's never been so / Hell, we're nowhere now." Likewise, the line "What's never been's never been so" is also a phonetic palindrome.
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