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-TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using only the letters on the top row of a computer keyboard.
-In ancient Greece the word 'idiot' meant a private citizen or layman.
-The furniture polish "Pledge" means "Piss" in the Netherlands
-If you were to spell out numbers you would have to get to 1000 before
you found the letter "A"
-When the Chevrolet Motor Company tried to introduce the "Nova" car to
Spain it wasn't a big seller. "Nova" means "Doesn't go" in Spanish.
-In the last 50 years the average working vocabulary of a 15 year old
has decreased from 25,000 words to just 10,000 words.
-The longest word that can be typed only with the left hand is 'Stewardesses'.
-The only English word that ends in 'mt' is dreamt.
-The word 'Queue' is the only word in the English language that can be pronounced the same even if the last four letters have been removed
one by one
-There are more English speaking people living in China than there are
in the USA!