[PW] Re: ?onion

[neil zusman]

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>Hello Wombats!
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>What are words which have the same pair of letters at the beginning and the end called? Example : onion.
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>This question was posed to the Florida Ask-a-Librarian service. I have not seen an answer posted yet.  I have been looking in the Oxford companion to English Usage under word (The word theme). I have looked up terms that are not familiar to me, but it is a long list, and I am hoping there is a Wombat out there who knows "off the top of their head".
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You may try a search on "rotational symmetry".

http://www.rinkworks.com/words/oddities.shtml

Neil