2025-03-10
53 分钟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 Polyndromists, and it's a documentary about the 2017 World Palindrome 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 Madame I'm Adam or no lemons,
no melon.
And the World Palindrome Championship is organized and emceed 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 Saltfight, who's the founder of the Polyndromist magazine and John Agee,
who's author of such palindromic books as Go Hang a Salami, I'm a lasagna 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,