TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using only
the letters on the top row of a computer keyboard. |
In ancient Greece the word 'idiot' meant a private citizen
or layman. |
The furniture polish "Pledge" means "Piss" in
the Netherlands. |
If you were to spell out numbers you would have to get to 1000
before you found the letter "A". |
When the Chevrolet Motor Company tried to introduce the "Nova" car
to Spain it wasn't a big seller. "Nova" means "Doesn't
go" in Spanish. |
In the last 50 years the average working vocabulary of a 15
year old has decreased from 25,000 words to just 10,000 words. |
The longest word that can be typed only with the left hand
is 'Stewardesses'. |
The only English word that ends in 'mt' is dreamt. |
The word 'Queue' is the only word in the English language that
can be pronounced the same even if the last four letters have
been removed one by one. |
There are more English speaking people living in China than
there are in the USA!
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