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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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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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    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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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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    The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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    The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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