The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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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 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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