There are other words that have been constructed along the same line. There is ailihphillia, a love for palindromes; elihphile, a lover of palindromes and so on.
Sentences can also be palindromic—reading the same forward or backwards—and the first palindromic sentence in English appeared in 1614: "Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel." Another example of such a sentence is: "Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?"
The title of 'The Longest Palindromic Place Name' goes to Kanakanak which is near Dillingham, Alaska, USA. The longest palindromic word in the Oxford English Dictionary is tattarrattat, coined by James Joyce in Ulysses for a knock on the door.
People unfortunate enough to suffer from Aibohphobia must have a very difficult time in this world of palindromes! Imagine being scared of the dark, but then becoming extremely fearful because you have to call out to your mom or dad, who are both palindromes!
