Try this Word Puzzle
My neighbour often forwards jokes and other day-brightening material. His most recent email is Word Puzzle. Here it is (enjoy!):
I am only sending this to my smart friends. I could not figure it out and had to look at the answer. See if you can figure out what these words have in common.
- Banana
- Dresser
- Grammar
- Potato
- Revive
- Uneven
- Assess
Are you peeking or have you already given up? Give it another try. Look at each word carefully.
You’ll kick yourself when you discover the answer.
Answer: No, it is not that they all have at least 2 double letters.
(Thought I had the answer, but I did not go far enough.)
Thought I’ll share this Lila comic from yesterday with you before revealing the answer :

Does this explain why we have such poor customer service and tech support? Or why banks leave their customers waiting in queues for half-an-hour or longer? Banks want us to use the ATM.
Back to our Word Puzzle and the answer is:
In all of the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it at the end of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same word.
Before we go let’s take a look at the year’s second most anticipated mobile phone, the HTC G1, and debuting the even-more anticipated Google Android operating system. Here is a hands-on demonstration:

