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Jeopardy responds to William Shatner tweet about word invented by B.C. 6-year-old

Jeopardy questions from Nov. 20 spur Twitter support for levidrome
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Jeopardy used the category 鈥淔orwards & Backwards鈥 on its Nov. 20 show, spurring levidrome fans to take to twitter to suggest the game show use the Victoria-born word instead. (Photo submitted by Lucky Budd)

Jeopardy has a response to a Canadian star power tweet calling on the show to use a Victoria boy鈥檚 invented word for one of its game categories.

William Shatner tweeted at the game show Sunday, suggesting it change its 鈥淔orwards & Backwards鈥 category, that appeared most recently on its Nov. 20 show, to the Victoria-born word 鈥渓evidromes.鈥

Six-year-old Levi Budd, a St. Michaels University School second-grader, made a bid to add levidrome to the dictionary after learning all about palindromes and discovering there was no readily used word for a word that spells another valid word backward 鈥 such as stop and pots.

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He decided to create a new word featuring his name, and try to get it in the dictionary.

Shatner tweeted to Jeopardy again Tuesday, asking, 鈥淗ave we heard from @Jeopardy about this? Where鈥檚 Trebek?鈥

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Less than five hours later, Jeopardy responded.

鈥漌here鈥檚 Trebek? He鈥檚 trying to figure out how a 6-year-old might get a word in the dictionary before him!鈥


 
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