AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: palindromes aplenty.
RS:
A palindrome is something that reads the same backwards or forwards.
Palindromes make us think of Janus, the Roman god with one face looking
forward, another looking backward.
AA: And from Janus we get January, and from that we get the idea to rerun "The Ballad of Palindrome" each New Year.
RS:
It features a skit that spoofs a cowboy show on television in the 1950s
called "Paladin." Here now is the group Riders in the Sky joined by
singer and songwriter Johnny Western.
SOUND: "The Ballad of Palindrome/Palindrome: The Scene with Johnny Western"
RS: That's Riders in the Sky from their 1998 album "A Great Big Western HOWDY!" on the Rounder Records label.
AA:
And that's WORDMASTER for this week. Our e-mail address is
word@voanews.com, and our segments are all online at
voanews.com/wordmaster. Wishing you a happy and healthy New Year, with
Rosanne Skirble, I'm Avi Arditti.
