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    The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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    The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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    Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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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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    Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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    'Go', is the shortest complete sentence 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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