Nine square with palindromic diagonal.

Nine square with palindromic diagonal. A few years ago, I produced a few thousand nine squares, but theyhave lain fallow fallowa pale cream, light fawn, or pale yellow coat color in dogs. since, as Chris Cole For the professional skateboarder, see Chris Cole (skateboarder). For the American football player, see Chris Cole (American football player). presented "ModemNine-Squares" in November 2001 and Richard Sabey presented "ACollection of Nine-Squares" in February 1997. I did, however, lookfor a square with a word on the diagonal as well. Failing to find oneamong my few thousand or in Word Ways, I now take pleasure in presentingit, plus a small variation. All word squares necessarily have a NE-SW diagonal which ispalindromic pal��in��dro��micadj.Relapsing; recurring. , because the first and last letters are the last letter ofthe first word, the second and second-last letters are the penultimateletters of the second word, and so on. There are very few nine-letterpalindromes, and not so very many nine squares, and the coincidence isonly possible because of the work done by Jeff Grant in producing thePalindromicon. The square below is made with words from a single source(except for the diagonal).A I S L E L E S S OEDI C T E R I D A E OED icterus, meaning 2aS T R A N G I G E OED STRONG c.1000 quoteL E A D E A T E R OED lead-eaterE R N E S T O N E OED erne-stoneL I G A T U R E S OED ligatureE D I T O R E S S OEDS A G E N E S S E OED sageness 1654qS E E R E S S E S OED seeress Note that the second G in the third word is in the Anglo-Saxon formin the quotation. The NE-SW palindrome palindrome:see anagram. is SAIASAIAS, plural of SAIASAIA, atransparent fabric in the Maranao language Maranao is an Austronesian language spoken in the provinces of Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur in the Philippines. See alsoLanguages of the Philippines Filipino Cebuano Tausug Maguindanao Kapampangan Chavacano Pangasinan (see Palindromicon). Avariant square is created by replacing LEAD-EATER with LEAF-EATER (OED OEDabbr.Oxford English DictionaryNoun 1. OED - an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principlesO.E.D., Oxford English Dictionary leaf, meaning IIIb).REX GOOCHLetchworth, Herts, England rexgooch@ntlworld.com