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more useless info ….
In Chinese, the words ‘crisis’ and ‘opportunity’ are the same.
The words racecar and kayak are spelled same both ways.
The word ‘monosyllable’ actually has five syllables in it.
The saying ‘once in a blue moon ‘ refers to the occurrence of two full moons during one calendar month.
There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
‘Naked’ means to be unprotected. ‘Nude’ means unclothed.
Upper and lower case letters are named ‘upper’ and ‘lower’, because in the times when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the ‘upper case’ letters were stored in the case on top, and the smaller, ‘lower case’ letters on bottom.
Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means “the capital” in the Korean language.
The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
The “You Are Here” arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.
The word ‘lethologica’ describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
In English, “four” is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value.
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the U.S. states..
The word “trivia” comes from the Latin “trivium” which is the place where three roads meet, a public square. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters, most of which were trivial.
Typewriter, is the longest word that can be made using the letters in only one row of the keyboard.
“Speak of the Devil” is short for “Speak of the Devil and he shall come”. It was believed that if you spoke about the Devil it would attract his attention. That’s why when you’re talking about someone and they show up people say “Speak of the Devil.”
The word “checkmate” in chess comes from the Persian phrase “Shah Mat,” which means, “The King Is Dead.”
The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
Canada is an Indian word meaning “Big Village.”
Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The longest non-medical word in the English language is floccipausinihilipilification (29 letters), which means “the act of estimating as worthless.”
The second longest non-medical word in the English language is antidisestablishmenterianism (28 letters).
The longest medical word in the English language (according to Oxford) is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosises (plural). It contains 47 letters and means: a lung disease caused by inhalation of minute particles of silica dust.
The longest word in the English language (non-official) is 1,909 letters long, and refers to a distinct part of DNA. I am not sure if this is true or not.
The WD in WD40 means “water displacement.”
The 40 in WD40 comes from the 40 attempts at creating this product.
In the English Language, the word “set” has the most definitions.
The word “samba” means “to rub navels together.”
The word diastima is the word for having a gap between your teeth.
The dot above the letter “i” is called a tittle.
“I am.” is the shortest sentence in the English language.
The study of soil is paedology.
Another term for pure china clay is Kaolin.
Speleology is the study of caves.
The search for the existence of ghosts is eidology.
A sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
Calcium sulfate hemihydrate is more commonly known as Plaster of Paris.
The Mercedes-Benz motto is ‘Das Beste oder Nichts’ meaning ‘the best or nothing.’
Pants was considered a dirty word in England.
“Brunet” means “gay” in Brazil.
The words: facetious, abstemious, and arsenious all contain the five vowels in their correct order.
No word in the English language rhymes with: month, orange silver, and purple
There are over 600,000 words in the English language.
“Lunula” is the tip of the finger and toenail that is white. It is called this this (referring to the moon) because the end of the nail is rounded like the moon.
The word “piano” is really an abbreviation for the word “pianoforte.”
Duffel bags are named after a town of Duffel, Belgium, where they were first made.
The ‘y’ in signs reading “ye olde..” is properly pronounced with a ‘th’ sound, not ‘y’. The “th” sound does not exist in Latin, so ancient Roman occupied (present day) England use the rune “thorn” to represent “th” sounds. With the advent of the printing press the character from the Roman alphabet which closest resembled thorn was the lower case “y”.
The term, “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye” is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, “No eye gouging,” eveything else was allowed.
The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
The term “the whole 9 yards” came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got “the whole 9 yards.”
The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to exercise naked.
Las Vegas means “The Meadows” in Spanish.
There are only four words in the English language which end in dous: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched.
Strength is the longest english word with only one vowel.
“Dreamt” is the only word in the English language to end in “mt.”
You speak about 4,800 words per day.
“Teh” means “cool” in Thai. (Pronounced “tay”).
Lice is the plural of louse.
The word ‘byte’ is a contraction of ‘by eight.’
The word ‘pixel’ is a contraction of either ‘picture cell’ or ‘picture element’.
Alekthophilia is the love of chickens.
The words silent and listen have the same letters. Santa and Satan do too.
Extracted from http://www.phillsinfo.com/phillsdesign/words.htm
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7 Replies
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What fantastic information. Thanks for that.
Lee
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nice one mate… sat and read the lot… 😉
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whats up my friend, nothing to do today!! trying to stay out of your wife’s way so she doesn’t find you something to do? 😀
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i wish mate, just sat down 5 mins ago to start on a pile of work… ill still be here 3am monday morning for sure 😉 5am im off a long drive to fit built up letters with LED’s 😕 should be nice once complete but not looking forward to the lack of sleep. 🙁
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quote :5am im off a long drive to fit built up letters with LED’s should be nice once complete but not looking forward to the lack of sleep.Or the injury’s lol
Do you have private medical cover, cos i bet they make a fortune out of you!!!!
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Read the lot too!
Yeah well! A little time to relax
So that’s where Rob is! Out and about…….making money and stuff
Probably crashed out by now :lol1:
John 😀
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I read them all to but it’s nice to know I’m not the only sad so & so with nothing better to do!!!
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