The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
Almonds are members of the peach family.
The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Ingrown toenails are hereditary.
The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English
language.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and
ends with the letters "und."
There are only four words in the English language which end in"-dous":
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English
Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. The only
other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
The longest place-name still in use is
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiw-enu akitnatahu,
a New Zealand hill.
Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de
los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its
size, "L.A."
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he
was sewn up after surgery.
Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.
Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same
pattern of whiskers.
Steely Dan got their name from a sexual device depicted in the book
'The Naked Lunch.'
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who
fathered over 160 children.
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.
Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered
blood donors.
John Larroquette of "Night Court" and "The John Larroquette Show" was
the narrator of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.(Wonder how they figured
this out)
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened
cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.
The male gypsy moth can "smell" the virgin female gypsy moth from 1.8
miles away.
The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left
hand.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement
made by swearing on their testicles.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The
following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced,
thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after
falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter
is uncopyrightable.
Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order,
as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat
of arms for that reason.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.
The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat,"
which means "the king is dead."
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore
when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the
ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest rated American
program in the history of Korean television. "Chachi" is Korean for "penis."
