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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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    Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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    Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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    The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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    'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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    Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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    The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
    they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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