Baby Gramps is an American guitar performer, who, though born in Miami, Florida, has been based in the Northwest U.S. for at least the last 40 years. He is famous for his palindromes. Baby Gramps started performing in 1964 and is still playing professionally as of 2018.
Baby Gramps at Analog, Ringsend, Dublin Ireland (Photo: Sean Rowe)
Busking at Northwest Folklife
Baby Gramps busking in Seattle's Pike Place Market in the 1970s
Baby Gramps (second from right), 1994
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as madam or racecar, the date "22/02/2022" and the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". The 19-letter Finnish word saippuakivikauppias, is the longest single-word palindrome in everyday use, while the 12-letter term tattarrattat is the longest in English.
The 4th-century Greek Byzantine palindrome: ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑΤΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ (Wash Your Sins, Not Only Your Face) on a mosaic in the Monastery of Malevi [el] in Greece.
A Sator square (in SATOR-form), on a wall in the medieval fortress town of Oppède-le-Vieux, France
Nipson anomēmata mē monan opsin palindrome, on a font at St Martin, Ludgate
Palindromic license plate number
