I never claimed that "sides reversed is" was my own formulation, Steve's claim that but anybody can make up something that doesn't actually mean a damn thing and call it a palindrome. Like wot you've just done. So he is still wrong. It appeared (although possibly not original even then) in "Games and Puzzles" magazine in the 1970s or 80s.

However, I believe he is deliberately lying when he claims:
Here's a list of kids from one of my class registers:

Nell, Edna, Leon, Nedra, Anita, Rolf, Nora, Alice, Carol, Leo, Jane, Reed, Dena, Dale, Basil, Rae, Penny, Lana, Dave, Denny, Lena, Ida, Bernadette, Ben, Ray, Lila, Nina, Jo, Ira, Mara, Sara, Mario, Jan, Ina, Lily, Arne, Bette, Dan, Reba, Diane, Lynn, Ed, Eva, Dana, Lynne, Pearl, Isabel, Ada, Ned, Dee, Rena, Joel, Lora, Cecil, Aaron, Flora, Tina, Arden, Noel, and Ellen

The list can easily be found elsewhere on the net, not attributed to 'Steve Shaw'. And I very much doubt that he ever had a class of 60.