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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Trivia about the English language and word origins (By: Corsinet.com)
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
• Of all the words in the English language, the word “set” has the most definitions.
• “Ough” can be pronounced in eight different ways.
The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.”
• “Rhythms” is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
• The word “assassination” was invented by Shakespeare.
• The ZIP in Zip-code stands for “Zoning Improvement Plan.”
• DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic acid.
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