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    There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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    The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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    Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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    Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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    There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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    The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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    The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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