Palindrome enigma

Tell us what’s happening:
my code works for every condition except this -->> palindrome(“1 eye for of 1 eye.”)
can anyone explain to me why this is ? palindrome(“1 eye for of 1 eye.”) seems like a palindrome to me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

   **Your code so far**


function returnAlphabet(word){ //this function filters out all the non-alphanumeric characters

word.split('')
var emptyArr=[];
var regEX = /[a-z]/
for(var i =0;i<word.length;i++){
  if(word[i].toLowerCase().match(regEX)){
    emptyArr.push(word[i].toLowerCase())
  }
}
return emptyArr
}

function fisrtLetter(word){ //extracts first letter of word
 return word.slice(0,1)

}
function lastLetter(word){ return word.slice(-1)}// etracts last letter of word

function middleWords(word){ return word.slice(1,-1)} //extracts middle letters

function realPalindrome(word){ // palindrome algorithm
  if (word.length<=1){ 
    return true
  }

  if(fisrtLetter(word)!==lastLetter(word)){
    return false
  } 
   return realPalindrome(middleWords(word))

}

function palindrome(str) {

var filteredWord = returnAlphabet(str).join('')

return realPalindrome(filteredWord)
}






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Challenge: Palindrome Checker

Link to the challenge:

“1 eye for of 1 eye” stripped of non-alphanumerics is “1eyeforof1eye”. Backwards that’s “eye1forofeye1”, which is different.

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