Letters, words, typing and such
Here are a few interesting tidbits I read somewhere on the internet. Just for your reading pleasure, no references, nor any assertion that they are 100% true. But they must be true... as I said I read them somewhere on the internet and we all know you can believe anything you read on the internet, right?
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. This is true even for those of you in the South who can make most words have multiple syllables. : )
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. Not true, my father-in-law told our kids just the other day the color of his burps... burple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. Flight attendants and suckers please don't take offense.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. Makes you wonder why more people don't have the nickname "Lefty".
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. I tried to disprove this but gave up when I spelled out these words using all the letters from the "TOP ROW YOU QUITTER".
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. So does "The wicked queen jumped as the hazy fog covered her last box". And my sentence makes you want to read more doesn't it? What is in the box? Why did she jump?
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left! (palindromes). Can you think of any others? "refer", "radar", "madam", "mom", "dad", "noon"
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." Who careious.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. This just made me think of one of my favorite words from Buddy the Elf "ginormous".
Things that make you go hmmmt.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. This is true even for those of you in the South who can make most words have multiple syllables. : )
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple. Not true, my father-in-law told our kids just the other day the color of his burps... burple.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. Flight attendants and suckers please don't take offense.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. Makes you wonder why more people don't have the nickname "Lefty".
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. I tried to disprove this but gave up when I spelled out these words using all the letters from the "TOP ROW YOU QUITTER".
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. So does "The wicked queen jumped as the hazy fog covered her last box". And my sentence makes you want to read more doesn't it? What is in the box? Why did she jump?
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left! (palindromes). Can you think of any others? "refer", "radar", "madam", "mom", "dad", "noon"
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." Who careious.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. This just made me think of one of my favorite words from Buddy the Elf "ginormous".
Things that make you go hmmmt.
posted by whaaaat! at
12:32 PM
3 Comments:
Wheeeere do you get this stuff?! Greatness.
I spent a minute trying to rhyme month, orange, silver, & purple but all came up with was a couple of bad movie titles... hunth (as in hunth for red october) & bornge (the bornge identity).
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Danny Sims, at 4:49 AM
How about, "Madam, I'm Adam?"
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Joe, at 5:15 AM
two of my favorite palendromes:
a man a plan a canal panama
go hang a salami, i'm a lasagna hog
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Anonymous, at 1:55 AM
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