Friends have often remarked that I am a fountain of knowledge meaningless information.
So when I saw that Tim was looking for snippets of trivia for his Did you know? meme, I seized the opportunity to pass on some completely useless English Language facts that will be of interest to absolutely no-one except me (because I am sad like that).
They were passed on to me from my daughter's deputy head teacher. If she is wrong despite her 40 years of teaching experience, then there is little hope for any of us and my daughter may need to move schools.
So let me bore you with these 'fascinating' facts:
- The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
- 'Almost' is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
- 'Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous and hazardous.
- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious'.
- 'Typewriter' is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
- The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
- The shortest English word that contains the letters A,B,C,D,E an F is 'feedback'.
- A spelling mistake in this post would look exceptionally bad.
And finally,
55 percent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn.
Still awake?
Thought not!
