A Victoria second-grader fixed a gaping hole in the English language by inventing a new word.
Now he wants your help getting it into the dictionary.
Defined by Levi Budd, 6, a levidrome is a word that contains the same lettering but spells a different word when written backwards.
When Levi discovered palindromes earlier this year – words or phrases like “Bob” that read the same forward and backward – he just couldn’t get enough.
“He
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