The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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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).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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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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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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