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Amazing, isn't it?
- RE ARRANGE THESE WORDS�
George Bush: When you rearrange the letters: He bugs Gore
Dormitory: When you rearrange the letters: Dirty Room
Evangelist: When you rearrange the letters: Evil's Agent
Desperation: When you rearrange the letters: A Rope Ends It
The Morse Code: When you rearrange the letters: Here Come Dots
Slot Machines: When you rearrange the letters: Cash Lost in em
Animosity: When you rearrange the letters: Is No Amity
Mother-in-law: When you rearrange the letters: Woman Hitler
Snooze Alarms: When you rearrange the letters: Alas! No More Z's
A Decimal Point: When you rearrange the letters: I'm a Dot in Place
The Earthquakes: When you rearrange the letters: That Queer Shake
Eleven plus two: When you rearrange the letters: Twelve plus one
- Men can read smaller print than women, women can hear better than men. Women can also smell better than men.
- Count the number of F's in the following text:
Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years
How many? Three?
Wrong, there are six - no joke! The brain cannot process the word "of".
Incredible or what? Anyone who counts all six F's on the first go is a genius Three is normal.
- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
- No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.
- 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."
- The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
- The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
- The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead".
- The only nation who's name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.
- The average secretary's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- There are only five words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, Timidous, and hazardous.
- Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
- Typewriter is the only ten-letter word you can type on the top row of your keyboard.
- The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
- Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the 'upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.
- The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
- No word in the English language rymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
- 315 entries in the Webster's 1996 dictionary were mispelled.
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