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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 word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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    The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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    Before WWI, German Was the Second Most Widely Spoken Language in the United States
    Before it was repressed during World War I, German was the second most widely spoken language in the United States and many local governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
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    The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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    The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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