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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 removed

3. 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 English

11. "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 consecutive
double 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 (allowing
multiple 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

35. "Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all:"A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully

36. A group of dolphins/fish/whales is called a school

37. A group of frogs/ants/penguins/rabbits is called an army or colony

38. A group of rhinos is called a crash

39. A group of kangaroos is called a mob

40. A group of geese is called a gaggle

41. A group of ravens/crows is called a murder

42. A group of crocodiles is called bask

43. A group of flies is called a business!

44. A group of locusts is called a plague!

45. A group of larks is called an exaltation

46. A group of owls is called a parliament

47. A group of people is called a crowd

48. A group of sheep is called a flock

49. A group of pigs/elephants/buffalo/cattle (cows)/oxen/goats is called a herd

50. A group of lions is called a pride

51. A group of monkeys/foxes/donkeys is called a troop

52. A group of tigers is called a streak

53. A group of cats is called a clutter

54. A group of dogs/wolves is called a pack

55. A group of zebra is called a cohort

56. A group of ducks is called a raft

57. A group of bears is called a sleuth/sloth

58. A group of bats is called a cloud

59. A group of bees is called a hive

60. A group of peacocks is called a muster or ostentation

61. A group of seals is called a pod


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