The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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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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