"Way don't you get married, Thomas?" a vicar asked his gardener. "You know Adam was a gardener, and he had a wife."
"Yes, sir," replied the gardener, "but he didn't keep his job long after he got her."
Palindrome PrmmAPS the best palindrome in the English language is that which purports to be our first fathers greeting to our first mother: "Madam, Im Adam."
A word, verse or sentence that is the same read either backwards or forwards is a palindrome.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.