Mariska Hargitay. Sergeant Olivia Benson. Emmy Award winner Mariska Hargitay stars as Olivia Benson, a dedicated and emotionally driven detective and acting sergeant of the SVU squad on Wolf Films/Universal Television's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, now in its 17th season.
Theyâre both palindromes. A palindrome is a word, number, sentence, or verse that reads the same backward or forward. It derives from the Greek palin dromo, which means ârunning back again.â In most palindromes, spacing, punctuation, and capitalization are usually ignored.
The word comes from the Greek words palin (meaning again) and dromos (meaning direction.) Examples include: Hannah, race car, and civic. Words that are spelled the same when read forwards or backwards are called palindromes. See the 'related links' below for a great selection of palindromes.