Chris:

> a little idea for this palindrome search machine:
> maybe its possible to change its abilities in a way that it can detect
> places like
> port de la aledtrop (if this exists...)

It already would find such a place. If it is presented with (say) a
four-word name, it checks each word, each adjacent pair of words, both
consecutive triplets and the whole string, ignoring spaces and
punctuation. It's just that names like that are extremely rare, unless
deliberately contrived.

Grant