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That evocative sentence, titled “Symptomatic,” earned Seattle-based wordsmith Malaki Stahl an honorable mention at the 2020 SymmyS Awards, an annual contest to honor the most imaginative new palindromes created in the last year. It’s hosted by
The Palindromist Magazine, a print-only publication described on its website as being “published irregularly.” The latest SymmyS winners were announced on January 20, 2021 (or 1/20/2021, which itself is a palindrome), by Beyond Wordplay.
Though Stahl’s aforementioned entry only nabbed an honorable mention, they did win two other blue ribbons.
Tonsil is soft, fossil is not took first place in the “Short Palindromes” category. And the top slot in the “Mid-Length Palindromes” category went to Stahl’s timely conversation between two coffee shop patrons: