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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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    The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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    There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
    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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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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    The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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