Palindromes – why isn’t the word a palindrome itself?

Just for fun I thought I would do a quick post about palindromes.  What the heck are they, I hear you thinking.  As you can see from the image, they are words that are spelled the same frontwards or backwards.  According to my dictionary the word “palindrome” comes from Greek.  I think it would have been great to find a word for it that was itself a palindrome.  Rotator for anyone?

Some palindromes are well known like:

Civic

Kayak

Minim

Radar

Level

Pop

Refer

Madam

Deed

Noon

Mom

Dad

And some a little more exotic like:

Racecar

Reviver

Rotator

Nurses run

Tenet

Desserts, I stressed

Sagas

Please feel free to supply the many palindromes I have missed!