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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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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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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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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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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