"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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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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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 "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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