Friday, April 10, 2009

the funny farm AND EVERYTHING YOU HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver,
or purple.

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand
and "lollipop" with your right.

The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses
every letter of the alphabet. (You alaready knew that didn't you?).

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

There are only four words in the English language which end in
"dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous

There are two words in the English language that have all five
vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters
only on one row of the keyboard.

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