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The first word spoken on the FLOCCINAUCINIHILIPILIFICATION, which means "the


moon was "okay." act of estimating as worthless".
Seoul, the South Korean Mafia in Old Arabic means 'sanctuary.'
capital, just means "the The longest word in the Old Testament is
capital" in the Korean "Malhershalahashbaz."
language.
The three words in the English language with the letters "uu"
The names of all the continents are: vacuum, residuum and continuum.
end with the same letter that
they start with. Karaoke means 'empty orchestra' in
Japanese.
Involuntary bad language, a
symptom affecting about one in 10 people with Tourette's 'Dreamt' is the only English word
syndrome, is called "coprolalia". that ends in the letters 'mt'
The word "time" is the most common noun in the English There are only four words in the
language. English language which end in
'-dous': tremendous, horrendous,
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs is the term for people stupendous, and hazardous.
who fear the number 666.
The word 'Bye' is used in both English and Spanish
The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator. meaning the same thing.
The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able A baby in Florida was named:
to remember the word you want. Truewilllaughinglifebuckyboomermanifestdestiny. His
In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number middle name is George James.
of letters as its value. In Chinese, the words crisis and opportunity are the same.
Publishers have coined the term The infinity character on the keyboard is called a
"Brownsploitation" for the rash of "lemniscate".
books that have sprung up in the
wake of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 'If I ran the
blockbuster. Zoo'.
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that Before Jets, Jet lag was called Boat lag.
does not appear in the name of any of There are no words in the English language that

World’s
the United States. rhyme with silver and orange.
TYPEWRITER, is the longest word It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around
that can be made using the letters only the time that the King James Version of the
one row of the keyboard. Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th
The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" word from the first word is shake and the
uses every letter in the English language. 46th word from the last word is spear.

No.1
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating 'Zorro' means 'fox' in Spanish
a letter is uncopyrightable. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village". repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left
hand.
The Academy Award statue is
named after a librarian's uncle. Origin of words
One day Margaret Herrick,
librarian for the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and

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Sciences, made a remark that he word “trivia” comes from the Latin
the statue looked like her Uncle “trivium” which is the place where
Oscar, and the name stuck. three roads meet, a public square.
The longest non-medical word People would gather and talk about all sorts
in the English language is of matters, most of which were trivial.

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