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Conference turris::scandia

Title:All about Scandinavia
Moderator:TLE::SAVAGE
Created:Wed Dec 11 1985
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:603
Total number of notes:4325

44.0. "A Finnish palindrome" by TLE::SAVAGE () Fri Jan 31 1986 11:58

Extracted by Mark Devries from VNS Letters to the Editor:
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From: Paul R. Niemi ........................................... Maynard, MA, USA

The Finns are noted for stringing multiple words together.  The longest 
single-word palindrome is reportedly the Finnish word:

    	       SAIPUAKIVIKAUPIAS

Loosly translated:  saipua = soap, kivi = stone, kaupias = merchant
Finnish meaning: lye merchant

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44.1Soap sellFURILO::KENTPeterFri Jan 31 1986 12:522
    If you look at the word SAIPUAKAUPIAS, it means the same thing spelled
    backwards or forwards.
44.2More p'sHSK01::PEURAPekka Peura * CSC * HelsinkiSun Feb 02 1986 15:3514
    	re .0, .1 
    
    	You have a little spelling mistakes there. The words should
    	be
    
    		SAIPPUAKIVIKAUPPIAS  
    	and
    
    		SAIPPUAKAUPPIAS
    
    
    	So both of the finnish palindromes are a even longer.
    
    		
44.3MUN02::ORAOra J�rvinen GTC MunichTue Feb 04 1986 03:085
    How about words with many vowels?
    
    "H��y�aie".
    
    I'll leave the translation to someone else.
44.4One from SwedenSTKORP::OBERGFri Nov 28 1986 08:207
    
    Here one from Sweden
    
    	PORTUGALRALLARLAGUTROP
    
    	8-)			Anders
    
44.5Translation pleaseHSK01::JJARVINENJuha J�rvinen / IS / FNOSat Mar 07 1987 17:526
    .re: .4
    
    	Can you translate that. I know a little Swedish but that's
    	too much.                              
    
    	Juha
44.6STKHLM::OBERGFri Apr 10 1987 10:0310
    
    'PORTUGALRALLARE' is a guy from Portugal, who build railroads.
    'LAG' is a buntch of this guys.
    'UTROP' is a same as, say something wery laud.
    
    
    		8-)        Anders