"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". |
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. |
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. |
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). |
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. |
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." |
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH." |
"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. |
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. |
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. |
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. |
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." |
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. |
The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill. |
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A. |
"Therein" is the only a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters: the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. |
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti. |
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." |
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. |
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead." |
Bookkeeper is the only word in the English language with three double letters next to each other.
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