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Friday, October 15, 2010

english trivia

  • Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters
    mt.
  • Underground is the only word in the English language that
    begins and ends with the letters “und.”
  • There are only four words in the English language which end
    in”-dous” tremendoushorrendousstupendous, andhazardous.
  • 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.
  • Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the
    left hand. (On a QWERTY keyboard)
  • Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct
  • The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
    letter is uncopyrightable.

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