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Some amazing information about English language ]
- 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends
in the letters 'mt'.
- 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that can be typed with only the left
hand.
- 'Underground' is the only word in the English language that begins and
ends with the letters 'und.'
- A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal
sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
- Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
- Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious,
- meaning 'containing arsenic.'
- Los Angeles's full name is 'El Pueblo de
Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de
- Porciuncula' and can be abbreviated to
3.63% of its size,'L.A.'
- 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 dot over the letter 'i' is called
a tittle.
- The letters KGB stand for Komitet
Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
- The longest one-syllable word in the
English language is 'screeched.'
- The longest place-name still in use
Traumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukaka--
- --pikimaungahoronukupokaiwenakitnatahu, a New
Zealand hill.
- The longest word in the English
language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis; The
only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its
plural.
- The only 15 letter word that can be
spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
- The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is
called an octothorpe.
- The word 'Checkmate' in chess comes
from the Persian phrase 'Shah Mat,' which
means 'the king is dead.'
- The word 'set' has more definitions
than any other word in the English language.
- There are only four words in the
English language which end in'-dous': tremendous,
- horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- There is a seven letter word in the
English language that contains ten words
- without rearranging any of its letters, 'therein': the, there, he, in, rein, her, here,
- ere, therein, herein.
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