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| Papaphobia is the fear of Popes. Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt." There are only four words in the English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. Pogonophobia: The fear of beards. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with if you take out "North" and "South" In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its value. The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable." Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village." The most common name in the world is "Mohammed." No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple. "Go." Is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. A group of crows is called a murder. Cleveland spelled backwards is DNA level C. In England, in the 1880's "pants" was considered a dirty word. The most difficult tongue-twister is "The sixth sick Sheik's sixth sheep's sick." More people speak English in China than in the United States. It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear. Androphobia is a fear of men. Caligynephobia is a fear of beautiful women. Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law. Scopophobia is a fear of being looked at. Phobophobia is a fear of fearing. Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook. Papaphobia is the fear of Popes. Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive. Clinophobia is the fear of beds. The ZIP in zip code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan." Pokemon stands for "pocket monster." A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows. When two words are combined to form a single word (e.g., motor + hotel = motel, breakfast + lunch = brunch) the new word is called a "portmanteau." There are six words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate, duumvir and residuum. |
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