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Some Amazing Word Facts Worth Knowing

(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.   

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