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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be created by using only the top
row of the keyboard.
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The most difficult language to learn is Basque, spoken in northwestern
Spain and southwestern France.
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The most commonly used word in English conversation is 'I'.
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In Chinese script, there are more than 40,000 characters.
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A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying,
I will be there in a jiffy.
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In 1939 Erneset Vincent Wright published a novel called Gadsby, containing
50,110 words, none of which contained the letter 'e'.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses
every letter of the alphabet.
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111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
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The word "karate" means "empty hand."
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Eskimos have more than twenty words to describe snow.
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The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that
is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
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"Aegilops" is the longest word in the English language with all
the letters in alphabetical order.
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The word SILENT contains exactly the same letters as the word LISTEN.
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"Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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The dot on top of the letter "i" is called a tittle. Tittle is
Latin for something very small.
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The ampersand (&) was once a letter of the English alphabet.
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Maine is the only state in the United States whose name is just one syllable.
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The word 'karate" means "empty hand."
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The word "live" spelled backward is "evil."
