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Fact Page: Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter b
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Tags: English, Language

Fact Page: "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
Date Added: 2011-04-09 18:58:14
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Tags: English, Language, Sentence

Fact Page: 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Date Added: 2011-02-05 18:42:27
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The USA doesn't have an official language, but English is the de facto language.

Tags: Language, English, United States, USA, America, Interesting

Fact Page: The United States does not have an official language.
Date Added: 2012-04-12 03:23:36
Fact Category: Language Fact

Tags: English, Language, Word, Interesting

Fact Page: The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
Date Added: 2012-04-03 15:49:20
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Fact Page: The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
Date Added: 2011-11-23 05:48:10
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Tags: Hoover, Cleaning, Vacuum, Vacuum Cleaner, UK, United Kingdom, English

Fact Page: Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
Date Added: 2011-10-03 07:03:05
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Tags: Job, Fire

Fact Page: Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
Date Added: 2011-04-27 15:47:23
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Tags: English, Language, Sentence

Fact Page: WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
Date Added: 2011-04-17 16:52:34
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The plural forms are clitorises in English and clitorides in Latin. In slang, it is sometimes abbreviated as clit, which originated in the 1950s. The OED suggests that the pronunciation is also used in the UK, and gives the likely etymology as coming from the Greek, kleitoris, perhaps derived from the verb, kleiein, to shut. The Online Etymology Dictionary states that the etymology of this diminutive is uncertain. Possible etymological candidates are a Greek word meaning "key", "latch", "hook"; a Greek verb meaning "to touch or titillate lasciviously", "to tickle" (the clitoris is called in German slang der Kitzler, "the tickler"), although this verb is more likely derived from "clitoris"; and a Greek word meaning "side of a hill", from the same root as "climax".

Tags: Clitoris, Greek, Language, English, Sex

Fact Page: The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
Date Added: 2011-02-25 08:06:45
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Tags: English, Language, Sentence

Fact Page: 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Date Added: 2011-02-05 18:42:27
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Fact Page: There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
Date Added: 2010-10-21 16:35:40
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Tags: Hawaii, Alphabet

Fact Page: The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.
Date Added: 2010-08-30 11:48:54
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Fact Page: There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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Fact Page: The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
Date Added: 2009-04-30 09:51:08
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