Check string for palindrome

Question

A palindrome is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units that can be read the same way in either direction.

To check whether a word is a palindrome I get th

Answer 1

Go, Java:

public boolean isPalindrome (String word) {
    String myWord = word.replaceAll("\\s+","");
    String reverse = new StringBuffer(myWord).reverse().toString();
    return reverse.equalsIgnoreCase(myWord);
}

isPalindrome("Never Odd or Even"); // True
isPalindrome("Never Odd or Even1"); // False