(By Mayowa Adeyemi)
- The word “facetiously” contains all 5 vowels alphabetically.
- “Lollipop” is the longest word that can be typed using only the right hand.
- If you spell out every number from 0 to 999, you will find every vowel except for “a” you have to get to one thousand before getting an “a”.
- “Go” is the shortest complete sentence in English language.
- The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” contains every word in the English language.
- “Stewardesses” is the longest word that can be typed using only the left hand.
- The plastic things at the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
- The fear of vegetables is lachanophobia.
- “Typewriter” is the longest word that can be typed using only one row of the keyboard.
- The word “queue” is the only word in English language that is pronounced the same way even when the last four letters are removed.
- The only 15 letter word that can be spelt using only one letter once is “uncopyrightable”.
- The QWERTY keyboard is got from the fact that the keyboard has its first 6 letters as Q, W, E, R, T, and Y.
- The word “listen” contains the same letters as the word “silent”.
- “Underground” is the only word in English language that starts and ends with the words “und”
- The word “alphabet” is got from the first two words in Greek alphabet “alpha” and “beta”
- The longest word in English language is “pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.” It refers to lung disease contracted from inhalation of particles specifically from volcanoes.
- The word “swims” when turned upside is the same.
- The only word in English language that has three consecutive sets of double-letters is “bookkeeper”
- The word “indivisibility” has only one vowel “i” It occurs 5 times.
