词汇大师-- Forget the Gunplay

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　　AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: palindromes aplenty!
RS: A palindrome is something that reads the same backwards¹ or forwards. Palindromes make us think of Janus, the Roman god with one face looking forward, another looking backward.
AA: And from Janus we get January. And from that we get the idea to re-run "The Ballad² of Palindrome" each New Year.
RS: It features a skit³ that spoofs⁴ a cowboy show on television in the 1950s called "Paladin." Here now is the group Riders in the Sky joined by singer and songwriter Johnny Western.

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RS: That's Riders in the Sky, from their 1998 album, "A Great Big Western HOWDY!" on the Rounder Records label.
AA:  And that's Wordmaster for this week. Our e-mail address is [email protected]. And our segments are all online at voanews.com/wordmaster. Wishing you a happy and healthy new year, with Rosanne Skirble, I'm Avi Arditti.