Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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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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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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