There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
175
The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
6
The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
14
There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
15
Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
125
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
130