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=== {{anchor|Phonetic}} In speech === {{Listen|filename=uneslavevalsenue.ogg|title="Une Slave valse nue" played forward and backward}} A phonetic palindrome is a portion of [[Speech communication|speech]] that is identical or roughly identical when reversed. It can arise in context where language is played with, for example in slang dialects like ''[[verlan]]''.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Goertz | first1 = Karein K. | title = Showing Her Colors: An Afro-German Writes the Blues in Black and White | journal = Callaloo | date = 2003 | volume = 26 | issue = 2 | pages = 306β319 | doi = 10.1353/cal.2003.0045 | jstor = 3300855 | s2cid = 161346520 }}</ref> In the [[French language]], there is the phrase ''{{wikt-lang|fr|une Slave valse nue}}'' ("a Slavic woman waltzes naked"), phonemically {{IPA|{{nowrap|/[[Help:IPA/French|yn slav vals ny]]/}}}}.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Durand | first1 = Gerard | title = Palindromes en Folie | date = 2003 | publisher = Les Dossiers de l'Aquitaine | isbn = 978-2846220361 | page = 32 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PK_xfgb1VQYC&pg=PA32 }}</ref> [[John Oswald (composer)|John Oswald]] discussed his experience of phonetic palindromes while working on audio tape versions of the [[cut-up technique]] using recorded readings by [[William S. Burroughs]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.pfony.com/ | title = Section titled "On Burroughs and Burrows ..." | publisher = Pfony.com | access-date = 23 April 2012 | archive-date = 5 February 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120205201727/http://www.pfony.com/ | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>[http://www.pfony.com/burrows/index.html Reversible audio cut-ups of William S. Burroughs' voice] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080313101733/http://www.pfony.com/burrows/index.html |date=13 March 2008 }}, including an acoustic palindrome in example 5 (requires [[Adobe Flash|Flash]])</ref> A list of phonetic palindromes discussed by [[word puzzle]] columnist O.V. Michaelsen (Ove Ofteness) 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 an orthographic palindrome), "Y'all lie", "You're caught. Talk, Roy", and "You're damn mad, Roy".<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Michaelsen | first1 = O.V. | title = Words at play: quips, quirks and oddities | date = 1998 | publisher = Sterling }}</ref>
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