1- The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. (It has 192 definitions according to Oxford English Dictionary).2. The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed3. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs 6 times: Indivisibility.4. You would have to count to one thousand to use the letter "A" in the English language to spell a whole number.5. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.6. The only three words in the English language to beging with DW are Dwarf, Dwell, and Dwindle.7. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und".8. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".9. No word in the English language rhymes with "month", "orange", "silver" or "purple"!10. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in English11. "Quisling" is the only word in the English language to start with "quis." Who is Quisling you ask? He was a Nazi collaborator who ran occupied Norway in World War II. If you call a Norwegian a "quisling," be prepared to see these usually docile people kick your butt!12. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable".13. The oldest word in the English language is "town".14. The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".15. 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.16. "Bookkeeper" and "bookkeeping" are the only words in the English language with 3 consecutivedouble letters.17. Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.18. "Strengths" is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.19. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.20. One of the longest English words that can be typed using the top row of a typewriter (allowingmultiple uses of letters) is 'typewriter.'21. "Swahili"is a combination of African tribal languages, Arabic and Portuguese.22. There are 6 words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum,continuum, duumvirate, duumvir, and residuum.23. The word "honcho" comes from a Japanese word meaning "squad leader" and first came into usage in the English language during the American occupation of Japan following World War II.24. he word "queueing" is the only English word with 5 consecutive vowels!25. "Canada"is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".26. The word "pixel" is a contraction of either "picture cell" or "picture element".27. When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau".28. The words 'sacrilegious' and 'religion' do not share the same etymological root.29. The word rodent comes from the Latin word `rodere' meaning to gnaw.30. The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."31. The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."32. "Feedback" is the shortest word in English that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E and F.33. "Q" is the only letter that does not appear in any of the names of the 50 United States.34. There is no synonym for "thesaurus".34. The word 'news' did not come about because it was the plural of 'new.' It came from the first letters of the words North, East, West and South. This was because information was being gathered from all different directions.Nice time
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