Sunday, June 13, 2010

Fabulous Facts

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.


Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!


What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.


"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.


"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.


Albert Einstein was considered retarded, Isaac Newton was thought to be a slow learner, Joseph Priestly (the discoverer of oxygen) never took a science course, and Louis Pasteur got a C in chemistry.


    The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!


If you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one trillion!



The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!


Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!


The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!

SPOONFEED is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in reverse alphabetical order. 


2 comments:

Naveen said...

SPOONFEED is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in reverse alphabetical order.

Ramaguru Radhakrishnan said...

Thanks for the info dude!

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