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"Dreamt" is the only English
word that ends in the letters "mt".
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The word "set" has
more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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"Underground" is the only word in
the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
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The longest one-syllable word in the
English language is "screeched."
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There are only four words in the
English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.
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The longest word in the English
language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
(a respiratory disease caused by inhalation
of very fine silicate or quartz dust).
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The only other word with the same
amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its
plural.
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'Stewardesses' is the longest word
that is typed with only the left hand.
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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."
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The verb "cleave" is
the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other:
adhere and separate.
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only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable."
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Sahar T. Sulaiman
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