It is, because that's only a tiny part of it; once you get to the end, you read it in reverse, voila, palindrome.
It's important to remember that you can read any letter or word in different directions;
Outverse and Inverse
Upverse and Downverse
Leftverse and Rightverse
Circularverse and Spiralverse
etc.
In other words, if you understand how to read in any direction, you then speak the UNIversal language of music and song.
Look up "Enochian" sometime if you want to see proper pronunciations of consonants; each one represents a collection of "constantly present" sounds, also known as consonants. It's called phonetic tongue; basically, regardless of what a word actually reads, it's the sounds and tones that matter for translation, no meanings required.
It's funny, I only ever had one addiction in my life; an addiction to needing no darn stinking dictionary.