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Sunday 1 April 2012

Some curiosities of the English language!

Here I leave you with some curiosities of the English language:

"Stewardesses"  is the longest word typed with only the left hand 

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And "lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand. 

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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.        
  
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".

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The sentence:  
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. 

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The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). 

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There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous":  tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
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There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order:  "abstemious" and "facetious."
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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Now you know (a little) more than you did before!! :)

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