Some amazing information about English language ]

موضوع: Some amazing information about English language ] 2009-06-23, 14:27

[ Some amazing information about English language ]

'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.
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'Stewardesses' is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
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'Underground' is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters 'und.'
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A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
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Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten
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Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning 'containing arsenic.'
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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.'
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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.'
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
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The longest one-syllable word in the English language is 'screeched.'
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The longest place-name still in use
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Traumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapik imaungahoronukupokaiwenakitnatahu, a New Zealand hill.
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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
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable
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The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe
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The word 'Checkmate' in chess comes from the Persian phrase 'Shah Mat,' which means 'the king is dead.'
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language
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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 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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