Friday, 23 January 2015

FACTS ABOUT ENGLISH WORDS AND SENTENCES

- "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contains all the letters in an alphabet
- All continents in the world start and end with the same letter
- The past tense of "dare" is "durst"
- The word "testify" was derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles
- The word "racecar" can be spelt the same way backwards
- "Rhythm" is the longest spelt word without a vowel
- The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.

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