Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Amazing 10

There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility."
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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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There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
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There are thirteen languages spoken by more than 100 million people. They are: Mandarin Chinese, English, Hindi, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Bengali, Portuguese, Malay-Indonesian, French, Japanese, German, and Urdu.
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There are only 4 words in the English language which end in "duos": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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There are 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
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The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters ispneumonoultra-microscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
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Rudyard Kipling was fired as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. His dismissal letter was reported to have said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language. This isn't a kindergarten for amateur writers."
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Only 3 words in the English language end in "ceed": "proceed," "exceed," and "succeed."
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