The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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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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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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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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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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