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Some word facts
19 December 2008
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Some wordy facts for you (many thanks to Mark Duman for these!):
Q. What's the first novel ever written on a typewriter
A. Tom Sawyer.
Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter 'A'?
A. One thousand
Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
Don't ignore this just because it looks weird. Believe it or not, you can read it:
I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd what I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in what oredr the ltteers in a word are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the first and last ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can still raed it wouthit a porbelm. This is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but theword as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT".?
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes)
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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