There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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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 sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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