• 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. "No va" 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!
Friday, December 14, 2007
Fun Facts About Language
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That was REALLY interesting! Now I don't feel bad when my parnter calls me an idiot!!! ;D
Great little factoids.... no wonder no one wanted to ride in my Nova when I was 16. Hrmm. It usually never did "go".
I love little trivial facts like that!
Nova comment #2: my dad bought my mom a Nova for her birthday when I was 5.
I knew that about Pledge as I am always saying "Oh piss on that. I'm not dusting."
So interesting!! My parents had a Nova and I'm pretty sure that it frequently broke down. Heh.
lol @ "no va."
That was cool..... thanks!
Jan
Fun--bet you had fun finding all those facts.
I had a 1987 Nova. That car ran and ran and ran...
until it didn't.
But I really loved that car.
And I really liked this post.
I owned a Nova. It did Va, but only at less than 45 mph. Of course, it was a 77 nova, that I owned in 96-97. The fact that it moved at all was the miracle.
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