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Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts

Sunday, 11 August 2013

DYK #26: 'titin' the longest word in English (Chemical compound)

Ever though chemical compounds are hard to pronounce. 'Titin' seems easy  enough..right? Until you know the full form that is!



Tuesday, 31 July 2012

DYK #7: English is a phunny language...

  1. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. 
  2. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle or superscript dot. 
  3. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
  4. There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs five times: "indivisibility." 
  5. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"
  6. The shortest complete sentence in English is the following. "I am." 
  7. The longest English word without a true vowel (a, e, i, o or u) is "rhythm". 
  8. The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate. 
  9. The word "triskaidekaphobia" means "fear of Friday the 13th". It also means "superstition about the number thirteen" in general. 
  10. A sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet is called a "pangram".